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This virus and that will be overlaid on top of delta. we're not sure how that's going to work out. >> just to make the point, professor, if you have millions of people infected very quickly, even if the virus is less severe, which it may or may not be, you obviously can still get a significantly higher number of dead people. >> that's absolutely true. i think one important point to note is we are learning new things. today we saw data from south africa that showed that in fact the actual steep curve of new cases in south africa with the variant is similar to what we saw with beta and the delta...

Vaccination rates. he is a professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine. what do you make of this new south african data? do we really know yet how dangerous the omicron variant is? what's your analysis of where we are? >> hi, chris. we don't really know yet. we have to keep waiting. it's very difficult to wait, we all want to know the answers. the latest reports in south africa are that omicron may be leveling off. we don't know where this is going. we do know it will be rapidly contagious to people, wherever there are unvaccinated people. we do know that they are probably l...

South african data? do we really know yet how dangerous the omicron variant is? what's your analysis of where we are? >> chris, we don't really know yet and we have to keep waiting. it's very difficult to wait. we all want to know the answers. the latest reports from south africa that their cases of omicron might be leveling off. we don't know where this is going. we do know it's going to be rapidly contagious to people, whether unvaccinated people. we do know it's probably less protected by the vaccines that are currently out there. but we also know, and this is on the good news side, if peop...

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Covid-19 over a year ago and her cousin just last week. >> i'm just so sick of people dying, you know? we've lost five family members last year, altogether, and i'm just tired. >> reporter: in the last two weeks, alaska has seen the highest rise in covid cases in the country. so what is driving the spike, especially when so many other states seem to be leveling off. well, health officials that we've spoken to here say, it's really a combination of factors. they say vaccination rates have become stagnant. it's a really political issue here right now. they also say, when you have that and this h...