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Ask your doctor about fasenra. all right. take a look at this. this is a chart that shows covid hospitalizations in our country right now, and this isn't case numbers. this is people who wind up in the hospital with covid. you can see the first big bump. that's when the u.s. hit our peak for covid hospitalizations a year ago. that's january of last year. the second big bump, that was the delta wave that filled hospitals last fall. and now look at the spike on the right side of your screen? that is where covid hospitalizations are right now. more people being admitted to the hospital with cov...

That we are in for unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, he is the dean of public health. doctor, thank you for being here as always. >> thank you for having me back rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like it to great comfort from the early numbers out of new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they didn't see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i have been looking at ever since, in every jurisdiction where they're having big news of cases have started making me feel less comfortable than...

Rising at a much slower rate. i guess that's some good news here, right? >> that's right and yes, we are at record high new cases throughout the pandemic. new case levels have exceeded that as we saw last winter but similar to what south africa continues to report, we are seeing reduction in clinical -- in the -- the number dropped to 14% during the delta wave and less than 5% with omicron with a population that has a less than 40% vaccination rate. in the united states we're seeing the same thing. we have a drastic rise in cases and while there is a slight rise in hospitalizations, that is be...

People we is can help the most. that means let something people die that we might have been able to help, but we're not sure, they're too far gone with an injury, or maybe we can't get to that trauma that came in. it's that gray zone in between. what the take is, if we have too many more covid patients or losing too many of our staff to being sick with covid. >> yeah. this actually in the first time that your region has been hit hard by covid, as we've seen all over the country, these variants come in waves. what's different about what you're facing now, as opposed to a few months ago, or even...

From orlando to charlotte and we got a notification that our flight from charlotte to munich had been cancelled. completely out of the blue. had no idea what was going on. we got no prior notice and we went ahead and, you know, we ran to the ticket counter and asked what to do and they said the best thing we could do still get on the flight to charlotte because our luggage was still being sent there on the aeroplane. the flight tracking firm flightaware has said more than 2,000 christmas eve flights have been cancelled globally. explaining their decision, delta airlines warned: in the us, in t...