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With children. we're seeing it with adults and so everything we do to reduce the spread of this, to reduce the rate of these high cases will take some pressure off the health care system and not just make room for taking care of people with covid, but ensure if you're somebody having a heart attack or you need cancer treatment or diabetes or kidney disease that there will be room there to take care of you. right now, that is in jeopardy in many places around count tri. >> yeah, because there is a spike in hospitalizations in new york and the glovernor says the have a spike in cases. i'm sure t...

About these numbers. i am sort of haunted by those case numbers going up the way they are, especially now that we are seeing hospitalization numbers rise in states where they say they're already tapped out in terms of medical capacity. does the steep rise in case numbers tell us anything about how long the wave will last? will it also crest or fall sooner than other waves did in the past? >> yeah, that's a very good question. i think the steepness and then also looking at what happened in south africa, going early glimpses out of london and other places that went two weeks before us, i think t...

Moment, there arejust some kind of feel for this, at the moment, there are just over 15,000 people in hospital in england, the data here are for the uk and are for slightly later in time. if we go back to september when we were still in the delta wave, the number in hospital was between 6000 and 6500, so, a very substantial increase. people are not admitted to the hospital in the nhs in winter unless they have a clear need for hospitalisation. and then to compare it to the previous waves, the wave that we had in the early part of 2020 had 18,974 people at the absolute peak, so, we are relative...

States, brian monahan, who is essentially the doctor for the house and the senate, advising a maximal telework posture for congress. the senate is supposed to be in session this week. we will see how that plays out. and we'll have more a little later on this hour as to what's going on with hospitalization numbers. we have seen over the past couple of weeks as case numbers have just gone off the charts. but infectious disease experts, including dr. anthony fauci, have been telling us now that we ought to be watching the hospitalization numbers much more closely than we're watching the case numb...

>> one last question for you about these numbers. i am sort of haunted by those case numbers going up the way they are, especially now that we are seeing hospitalization numbers rise in states where they say they're already tapped out in terms of medical capacity. does the steep rise in medical capacity. will the wave crest and fall sooner than other waves did in the past? >> that's a very good question. i think the steepness, also looking at what happened in south africa, getting early glimpses out of london and other places in europe, two weeks before us, i think there is reasons to believe ...