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.
loved ones or cancel as a massive twin variant surge of covid cases begins to hit. it s been 21 months and one week since the world health organization declared coronavirus a pandemic. this is a case rate over that time. over there on the far right there, you see how sharply things are rising right now. new york state just recorded the highest one-day total of new cases. the highest one-day total, since the pandemic began there here s governor kathy hochul on the spike. it s going to get worse, especially after christmas day. people gathering in person. there will be absolute more spread. we saw a 70% increase in cases from thanksgiving to two weeks later. and the same thing is going to happen. all right. we want to show you a state-by-state look on how cases have changed in just over the last 72 hours. each state you see in red is showing a jump in cases over that time. here s nbc news national correspondence miguel almaguer.
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hospitals. so there is some danger ahead. i think there is. reporter: bracing for a winter wave expected to rival last year s, every day 1,300 americans lose their lives. 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 were full today local funeral homes tell us they re now running out of room to hold the dead. miguel, there are a lot of headlines tonight. pfizer holding a delay for vaccine trials for children under five. what can you tell us about that. reporter: well, that s right, lester pfizer says they re testing a third dose of the vaccine in an ongoing trial of kids under five after the company found two doses didn t generate a strong enough immune response pfizer likely won t have enough data to submit to the fda for approval until the first half of 2022 now. lester miguel almaguer, thank you. all of this causing a
and as you know the ceos of american and united airlines tested before congress without masks on. and they actually downplayed the need for masks on the planes. but two days later, the ceo of southwest airlines gary kelly tested positive for covid. so what s your take here on the need for masks on flights. and should we be listening more to doctors than airline ceos? well, i hope so. and yes, we do need it. because travel isn t just about the planes, right? even though there are good filters on the planes when the planes are on. when the planes are off, at the gates, all of the gatherings at the airports, getting to the airports, using public transportation, all of that travel carries risk. what i would recommend is a good quality mask. particularly with omicron. what you re seeing what the w.h.o. says is a force of infection. which means you re most likely to get inflected around a person