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merry christmas to you and your family. you, too. merry christmas to you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay close attention. okay? this is serious. don t you think we ve seen this movie before? i keep reporting the same thing i ve been reporting for almost two years now. we re devoting a lot of attention to the growing covid crisis because it s really, really important. we want to help save lives and to make sure people don t become infected if you don t have to. what is so sad is those are almost the same words we were saying two years ago when the pandemic first took hold in the country, growing covid crisis. i thought i finished saying that. growing covid crisis. here we are again. we should be over this pandemic by now or have it somewhat under control. aren t you tired and fatigued? i know you ve got to be. the numbers don t lie. the average daily number of new cases was just under 120,000. today, the tracking data shows from john s hopkins univ
please join me tomorrow morning and every saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern for smerconish right here on cnn. don lemon starts right now. hey, don. you certainly had a week, my friend. is this your oldest son? i forget his name but who was a baby when i you yeah, i know, man. they have all grown. like, none none are babies, anymore. i wish they were. nice full head of hair. good-looking, young man. obviously, he looks like your wife. that is the one i am talking about. i forget his name. that is true. the crew is laughing over here. michael, have a good show tomorrow, have a great weekend and i won t wont be here next week so have a merry christmas to you and your family. merry christmas to you. thank you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay, um, close attention. okay? this is serious. because we don t you think that we have seen this movie before? right? i feel like i am i am just i keep reporting the same thing that i have
day. that is a 40% jump over just last month. most of them are the delta variant, but omicron is right on the heels. that variant is highly transmissible and it spreads a lot faster than the delta variant. pay attention to this dire warning tonight about omicron. it s from michael osterholm. you ve seen him here on this program, one of the nation s leading infectious disease experts. i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa, in europe, i think in the next 3 to 8 weeks we re going to see millions of americans are going to be infected with this virus, and that will be overlaid on top of delta. and we re not yet sure how exactly that is going to work out. millions more infected with the virus, but will that lead to more hospitalizations, even deaths? let s hope not. so far the cases seem to be milder than even the delta variant, the ones from omicron. president joe biden meeting with his covid advisers thi
feel like scrooge in the grinch right now. the news on the covid-19 pandemic getting worse by the day as the holiday season hits full effect right now, i almost forgot to take my mask off to start the show. they had to remind me you have your mask on. didn t we think that we were done with this? well, as we have seen time and time again covid is not done with us. cases surging about 120,000 new cases per day. and let me say that again, nearly 120,000 new cases per day. that is a 40% jump over just last month. most of them are the delta variant, but omicron is right on the heels. that variant is highly transmissible and it spreads a lot faster than the delta variant. pay attention to this dire warning tonight about omicron. it s from michael osterholm. you ve seen him here on this program, one of the nation s leading infectious disease experts. i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa, in europe, i think i