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Improving. looking better. the covid clouds are parting. >> reporter: in new york, average daily infections plummeted about 40% in just a week. >> the challenge is that not the entire country is not moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country so we shouldn't expect a national peak in the next coming days. next few weeks will be tough. >> reporter: just after christmas nationwide we were averaging a little over 200,000 new infections every day as omicron took hold. >> is that a number that you think could reach half a million soon? >> you know, it's pos...

Some encouraging news on the pandemic. a wave of omicron cases in several states appears to be cresting. but still hospitals are at record levels of covid patients. new york's governor says things are dramatically improving. >> we have a positivity rate ti rate of about 13% statewide. that is a dramatic improvement over our statewide average just a couple weeks ago, 23%. so what a decline we've seen. the covid forecast is improving, looking better. the covid clouds are parting. >> take what you can get when you look at that forecast. so far covid deaths remain below the pandemic peak. the vast...