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We look at how fast this omicron spread, when we look at south africa for example, and we had to cut off travel from there and the administration got great for that, i didn't blame donald trump for covid. i didn't like when he said it would be behind us and a couple of weeks, and scientists were saying that, but i don't like when any politician put the timeline on it. they don't have control over the timeline and they don't have control over the mutations or how severe those mutations will be. but there are are 71% of american people that have the vaccine and their arm. there are some people o...

More than 164,000 new cases a day, a double-digit increase from just last week. but you see the number of covid patients in hospitals is not surging to that extent. several studies are finding the highly contagious variant may be less likely to cause severe disease when you compare it to the delta variant in the wake of the omicron spread, some breaking news coming from the mayor of new york city right here, mayor bill de blasio says the new year's eve times square b bash is still on but in a scaled-back fashion. let's go to athena jones, who has more. what does that mean? we all know, whether...

Over in-person learning playing out across the country. cnn's polo sandoval is looking into this. polo, what is the latest from your vantage point? and good morning to you. >> christi, boris, good morning to you. we're seeing in schools across the country, schools are essentially reintroducing those measures. trying to curb the omicron spread right now. give you an example, in new york, we just heard from kathy hochul yesterday who will introduced a new wave of measures, stricter masking, testing at nursing homes. and for health care workers in the state, people who haven't been boosted, now r...

With the level of nonvaccination you're going to have a level of mutation with the level of virus out there in the world. so it should have been anticipated. and you've said since the beginning of delta, since june perhaps they certainly have been slow to respond to change their direction on a number of fronts including accepting that it's here to stay and they've got to adjust to a new normal. >> well, i think that -- i think that's the most important thing for us to understand is that covid is going to be endemic. it's going to be around us. when we can get our death rate and hospitalization...

Surgical units, but still we have over 100 patients in intensive care. >> are we seeing the beginning of the peak, the most intensive part of the peak? how do you see it, doctor? >> i will tell you, early in november, we had around 40 patients hospitalized. early in december, around the same. 40 to 50. and then it exponentially went from 80 to 200 to 500. the expected peak, according to the university of florida, looking at us is, by mid-january, which should be by the end of this we can, early next week, we should be hitting the peak. and then we will start to see it come down. florida starte...