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Gone up steeply, we are heading towards 1000 per100,000 mark, an enormous level. we have a rate of about 917 at the moment. just before the christmas day, christmas eve, we had a total of nearly 5000 omicron cases which is confined confirmed and probable cases, we know the case numbers are increasing every 2—3 days. one in four tests coming back positive, we have three out of 22 local authorities, the case rates in excess of 1000. of particular concern is high rates in 20—29 —year—old age group where case rates are over 2000 and nearly one into tests coming back positive in that age gr...

Of the american people. >> you know, when i leave this studio, and nice to see you both, i don't know what is going to happen. i'm not going to wrap a bubble around the studio and stay in here. y w what we don't know is out there. but we have control of our own lives to the point of freedom. first of all, let's make a trade. can we trade dr. fauci for salim abdool karim, the top scientist in south africa, who has informed the united states, the w.h.o., other nations, that there is a drop in case rates, that the infectious rate is high, but the effect on peoplete is low, and the fact that south...

Wanting to let go like a stalker of the american people. >> you know, when i leave this studio, and nice to see you both, i don't know what is going to happen. i'm not going to wrap a bubble around the studio and stay in here. what we don't know is out there. but we have control of our own lives to the point of freedom. first of all, let's make a trade. can we trade dr. fauci for salima abdul kareem, the top scientist in south africa, who has informed the united states,r nations, that there is a drop in case rates, that the infectious rate is high, but the effect on people is low, and the fact...

Also the potential burden on hospital and hospital staff? >> yeah, i think that's a really good point to make, we're in a much different position than we were one year ago, we didn't have the protection of the vaccine to really blunt the seriousness of what it meant to have a covid diagnosis. we are seeing though the case rates in new york are exponential, still less than 1 in 5 patients in one of our hospitals is a covid patient. that's a very different position going into the new year than we were a year ago. >> in washington, mayor bowser told us yesterday on "new day" that really there is ...

>> we are less than a mile but hour three. >> crazy busy. it's like it was back in, you know, january-february timeframe. >> some taking precautions, as the highly contagious omicron variant has overtaken delta as the dominant strain in just a matter of weeks. omicron has now been identified in every u.s. state, washington, d.c., and puerto rico. >> there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. we know for sure about this variant is that it's incredibly transmissible. each infected person infects, on average, five other people which is much more than with previous variants. >> reporter: for thos...