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Higher than last fall's delta wave. >> we have been trying to scream at the top of our lungs to say how bad it is. >> reporter: hospitalizations are down nearly 5% nationwide, but almost all americans live in a high-risk area. >> i think all over the country there's this incredible fatigue. we thought this would be over by now. >> reporter: healthcare workers are still on guard. dr. jeremy faust of boston's brigham and women's hospital. do you fear there will be more spspikes and surges ahead? >> i think predicting this virus is bad business. i think no one had ever heard of omicron on novembe...

Stage to an endemic stage. 2,500 deaths a day does not signify an endemic. we're seeing significant stresses on the hospital system. while we have to have the considerations in our mind, now is not the disciple to make sudden changes. >> let's drill down on schools. okay, so the cdc told cnn that that is -- it still recommends universal masking for all in schools. how do officials in states like new jersey or delaware decide what to do when their governors drop those masking rules. who should they be listening to? >> we should listen to ourselves, don. history repeats itself. we have been here...

Same thing. cases were down. hospitalizations were down. we prematurely declared the pandemic was over, and we said that people no longer needed to wear masks. and what soon followed was the delta wave. we have got to follow what has gone on, just a few months ago. if we remove these layers of protection too early, we're going to find ourselves in the midst of another wave. let's wait until we can see less deaths. let's wait until we can see less of a stress on the hospital system, before we make changes that can land us right back in that same predicament. >> oh, boy. what you said was exactl...

At all k through 12 schools. new york's governor to make an announcement on masks tomorrow. nationwide, hospitalizations have plunged by 55,000 patients since omicron's peak, but more than half of eligible children remain unvaccinated. and 99% of u.s. counties are still seeing high transmission. and new infections are still averaging nearly 250,000 a day, close to the high of previous surges. >> independent of whether there are mandates or not, i think people should reasonably wear masks when they're indoors through the next few weeks until we're much further down than where we are now. we're ...

Work, sometimes people wear masks, i could get sick doing this job. where is the science on this? because we have passed omicron, is it really safe for these states to be dropping mask mandates? is it a political thing, science thin or money thing? >> i'll start by saying it's complicated, but i think randi and i are pretty aligned because i've heard her speak about the other places. three things, one, we're still in the middle of a pandemic and the cases right now are higher than they were at the peak of the delta wave, believe it or not, and the deaths are about 2500. today in most places in...