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The spread of covid that they're seeing now. one of the new york city health officials said they have never seen it like this. maybe it's perhaps that the truth is, new york early on was the epicenter of this covid-19 virus. we didn't know what to expect. so it was hard to know how to identify it. but now, health officials are saying, they didn't even see then what they're seeing now and it's causing them a lot of concern and causing them to take measures that they hope will arrest the continued spread of the virus. >> great to hand out 500,000 tests, great to hand out a million masks. there a...

A year. with delta already putting a strain on hospitals just days from winter, the speed of omicron is fueling a rapid explosion in covid once again. in the uk, cases are at record levels for the entire pandemic. now doubling every two days or even less. the cdc says omicron accounts for about 3% of cases here nationwide but about 13% in parts of the northeast. but researchers from harvard say an omicron surge is already under way across the united states, outrunning our ability to even track it. early indications are omicron causes milder cases than delta does. but it is better at evading va...

Random testing. so they'll pick someone ran come randomly and you'll go get tested and get your results back. so if it comes back positive, the whole class has to go on, like, remote. >> that is so hard to listen to, you can hear the fatigue in their voices, which begs the question, as we approach christmas gatherings, it is december 2021, not december 2020. should we be measuring the threat differently than we did a year ago in terms of hospitalizations, not cases, since covid is going to be with us for such a long time? that's what a lot of parents are asking right now, given the need for ki...

Attendance. let's move on now. new york city's mayor-elect has tapped the next commissioner of the nypd. commissioner sewell will be only the third black person to lead the nation's largest police force. joining me is incoming police commissioner, chief keechant sewell. thank you for joining us and congratulations on this very big and important job. >> thank you so much for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. >> you're coming in at a precarious time. the city is dealing with all sorts of stuff, given covid. it's also quite a rise in crime, quite a rise in violent crime. how do you plan on...

>> forgive the word, if you will, katy, but new york city is trying to boost the safety protocols to protect people around this covid disease that we have now. one of the things that the mayor said just a short while ago is that the data that they're monitoring, it's showing an alarming trend. he's pointed out that the percentage of people in new york city testing positive for covid-19 doubled in three days this week. as a result of it, the mayor said they're going to be giving out 500,000 free rapid tests to people in the city, as well as giving out a million masks. in addition to that, they'...