>> all of these rooms are full. >> all of these rooms are full of intubated covid patients. >> reporter: to see the grim reality, look no further than farmington, new mexico. two weeks ago, we saw their icus are full. local funeral homes tell us they're now running out of room to hold the dead. >> our thanks to miguel on that. let's bring in the doctor on the report. it's good to see you bright and early. it seems like things were getting real again and we're seeing restaurants and productions shutting down, and we just heard miguel say the rockettes are cancelling their season. when are we headed here? >> you know, lindsay, with the omicron variant, with the muslim countries and eu and south africa, with this move, the growth rate, the doubling rate of just two days in some areas means that we're quickly getting overwhelmed with cases.