it's "way too early" for this. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that believes that 2022 has to be better than the last two years, right? i'm jonathan lemire on this monday, january 3rd. the highly contagious omicron variant continues to fuel an unprecedented surge in this pandemic. according to data from "the new york times", the average number of daily infections across the united states has doubled since christmas day. we're now at 400,000 new cases. hospitalizations are also rising, and while not at the same pace, the sheer number is enough to strain hospitals across the country, however, there's encouraging news out of south africa where this strain originated. the governments there said the surge in cases has peeked without a significant increase