States, and i want to show you how in the world it happened so quickly. the first case of omicron was identified in the u.s. back on december 1st. that week the cdc said it caused around 1% of all the cases in the entire u.s. the rest were delta. just one week later, it was still less than 15% and then last week, that number jumped to more than 70 percent with omicron cases far out numbering delta cases almost 3-1. we saw 244,000 new covid cases just yesterday, that is the highest for a single day since mid september. hospitalizations are up 14% over the last two weeks however, this is good news. deaths are basically flat. the numbers are bad enough that it prompted the nhl to put the entire season on a temporary hold. in some cities and states are now starting to take back their restrictions and go to where we were months and months ago. places we thought we left