reporter: melania trump has yet to establish a post-white house foundation or outline an agenda of work. she did say in her nft announcement a portion of the proceeds would go to help foster children, but questions from cnn as to how much and which programs have gone unanswered. one person in her corner on the venture, her husband and crypto critic donald trump. i never loved it because i like to have the dollar. i think the currency should be the dollar so i was never a big fan. reporter: now embracing his wife s latest and somewhat unusual project. she s going to do great. she does really she s got a great imagination. hello again. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. there are growing concerns among u.s. health officials as the country grapples with a troubling surge of covid cases. daily cases are now at an all-time pandemic high,
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couple of weeks, we re going to see increasing numbers of infections. our pandemic high was 250,000 in a day. no doubt we will hit half a million. we might hit a million a day. reporter: but even with cases exploding past their prior peak, the number of americans fighting covid in hospitals much lower than we saw in the darkest days of january. while it s good news that omicron appears to be less severe than the delta variant, with the sheer number of infections, we are going to see, unfortunately, pressure on hospital systems. reporter: and so many hospitals across the country are already buckling under the weight of these infections. luminis health doctors community hospital telling our affiliate wjla 52 employees are out sick with covid. you can have physical beds, but having staff to be able to provide care is one of the challenges that we re very currently. we re full. we re full. reporter: that staff shortage, combined with a surge in patients, is making it far harder t
thanks for having me back. we are basically at our pandemic highs right now. that s with a lot of under counting. a lot of states are not reporting. there s no doubt about it, we have more infections in america than at any point in the pandemic. what i expect is the next couple of weeks we will see increasing numbers of infections. our pandemic high was 250,000 in a day. no doubt we will hit half a million. we might hit a million a day. the question will be the hospitals. what s going to happen there? with a milder version, which i expect it will turn on omicron is mild he th, there are enough have not gotten vaccinated or not a booster that hospitals will be strained in the next few weeks. that s what i m worried about. we need a functioning health care system for everybody, not just people with covid. troubling, coronavirus hospitalizations in children are up almost 50% in one week.
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