when i'm thinking about his control. namely a level of control that is well well better than where we are right now because yesterday we had 95000 new cases the hospitalizations still creeping up. the deaths are saying about level we've got to get that level much, much lower. alicia: new covid cases topping 160,000 according to a tally by the johns hopkins university and so much is still unknown about the omicron. joining us now, doctor amos, an infectious disease doctor at the johns hopkins. thank you for joining us i'm going to put up for our viewers a map because the numbers can change, this is the latest numbers, the state that now have confirmed cases of the omicron. the number is expected to grow