hospitalizations while deaths have shown little change at about 1500 a day are you worried that we could see a dramatic rise in the amount of people dying from covid in the near future it s always possible, and i think it really depends upon who gets infected in the next several days and weeks. the emerging portrait of omicron is a variant increasingly making people sick at the moment a daily average of nearly 122,000 people are hospitalized with the virus. not far from the country s all-time high of 137,000 in january of last year with health experts predicting that record could fall in days at the same time, hospitals nationwide are reporting a dwindling number of available staff. every hospital is struggling with a staffing shortage like they ve never experienced. now because of staff being out due to covid is just a gasoline can on the fire.
uk and south africa where omicron has already peaked with no major increase in deaths deadly flooding in the northwest. one man swept away, others rescued from the tops of their cars now 57 million are under winter weather alerts new details as tennis star novak djokovic sits in isolation trying to enter australia. his lawyers say he already had covid. the terrifying cliff collapse caught on camera. boaters racing to safety and special delivery a message from this ups driver that inspired so many across the country this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening we are entering a new phase in this latest covid wave driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. first, came the explosion in cases and now come the hospitalizations in some areas the