just had news in the last couple hours there were 90,000 new covid cases, just today. that s about 10,000 more than we saw yesterday s reporting. and yesterday had broken the record. not the record for omicron, not the record for just this year but the record for daily new cases since the pandemic began. so we are seeing in ernest a massive spike in the number of cases. chuck it is not just about cases. in the uk we re seeing this huge up tick and deaths have more or less stayed the same. they have kind of flat lined. so we re hearing from officials in government they are worried that hospitals and much loved nhs system here is going to be overwhelmed come january or in the coming weeks. that as big worry here and one of the reasons boris johnson the prime minister put that vaccine thing on overdrive. he s putting all of his eggs in this booster basket, really.
a row. he s reluctant and he s getting a lot of resistance from his tory party. they re putting all their eggs in this booster basket, basically relying on the booster program to do all the work to staunch the spread of the omicron variant. the science says the booster is what stops you from getting really sick from this. dr. redlener, colorado s governor has said, if you re not vaccinated, if you re not boosted and you get very sick, it is your own fault, that they can t keep going around making rules based on a small population who refuses to help themselves. do we need to start looking at this differently in terms of hospitalizations, in terms of deaths, rather than just the overflow of cases that we will experience as omicron spreads across this country? well, katy, i appreciate what the governor is saying on a