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Like -- well, it looks like we're in for as-yet unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. >> thank you for having me back, rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i've been looking at ever since, in every jurisdiction where they're having big new wa...

We're in for, as yet, unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. >> thank you for having me back, rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i've been looking at ever since, in every jurisdiction where they're having big new waves of cases, have started...

0 they are going to put down and lay down the law to. it >> not there yet. >> it's coming, don't worry. i'm in communication with their kids on. this don't worry. planning the and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, d.c., they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capitol cap capito capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it. happy new year. this is how we're starting. in addition to most federal offices being closed be...

With a note of caution. >> yeah. that's the important part. we always are looking for the good news, and so am i all the time with this. south africa up, down, very low peak in hospitalizations and death. that's great. the uk is showing a similar. they have had a two-month delta wave before we have. we look different. so we to need to be cautious. be cautious that, you know, even if it is only 25% as severe, we are seeing cases four or five times higher than what we were with delta, we could be in for the same stress/strain on the hospital system as we saw through the delta wave or the wave th...

Bringing new fears and uncertainty over what is yet to come. in south africa, where the variant was first detected, new infections are falling and there's good reason to believe the worst has passed. dana mckenzie has the front line workers who have been on the front lines of the new wave of the pandemic. >> reporter: dispatched south of johannesburg, he says omicron is nothing like delta. >> during then, covid, covid, covid. nothing else. are you able to walk, sir? >> reporter: we were with them during the chaos, when the delta wave ripped through south africa. severe patients crashed quickly...