one last question for you about these numbers. i am sort of haunted by those case numbers going up the way they are, especially now that we are seeing hospitalization numbers rise in states where they say they re already tapped out in terms of medical capacity. does the steep rise in medical capacity. will the wave crest and fall sooner than other waves did in the past? that s a very good question. i think the steepness, also looking at what happened in south africa, getting early glimpses out of london and other places in europe, two weeks before us, i think there is reasons to believe we re going to see a peaking of this wave, again will vary place to place across the country. peaking in new york, new jersey, two weeks from now, little bit later in other parts. nationally, second half of this month i expect a peak.
like well, it looks like we re in for as-yet unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. thank you for having me back, rachel. am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i ve been looking at ever since, in every jurisdiction where they re having big new waves of cases, have started making me feel much less comfortable than i did before. yeah, i think that lead-up there was terrific and really helpful. and here is how i ve thought about it. first of all, why is dr. fauci even saying that we need to focus more on hospitalizations? we are seeing a little bit of a breaking of the link between cases and hospitalizations. you know, all through the delta w
we re in for, as yet, unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. thank you for having me back, rachel. am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i ve been looking at ever since, in every jurisdiction where they re having big new waves of cases, have started making me feel much less comfortable than i did before. yeah, i think that lead-up there was terrific and really helpful. and here is how i ve thought about it. first of all, why is dr. fauci even saying that we need to focus more on hospitalizations? we are seeing a little bit of a breaking of the link between cases and hospitalizations. you know, all through the delta wave, throughout the entir
0 they are going to put down and lay down the law to. it not there yet. it s coming, don t worry. i m in communication with their kids on. this don t worry. planning the and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, d.c., they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capitol cap capito capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it. happy new year. this is how we re starting. in addition to most federal offices being closed because of the snowstorm at the capitol today, the senate is supposed to be in session this week. they were supposed to taking at least one senate vote today. but that all got slid to tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician, the doctor for the house and the senate, sent a sobering, detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate, telling th
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