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scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasnt what this was. this was something stranger. >> michigan township, part of a statewide investigation. sources tell news a, michigan state police raided irving township home, and berry county, this past friday. >> this, after someone was allegedly given improper access to voting machines. >> the investigation, starting here in roscommon county. michigan state police say, there, a third party, allegedly, was given u...

so, my call to action today is simple. tear off a small piece from your commencement program, and write life is for service on it. yes, we gave you the pens to really do it. up >> and on that no, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with, us i will see you next week. thanks for staying up late doctor anthony fauci, joining us later on. well be asking, him how do we understand this rise in covid cases, across the...

In hospitalizations, despite the fact that weve got antibiotic treatments, we have vaccines out there, what does it tell you? because on one hand, were dealing with then in ten you waited virus where the effects on many people are not that severe. on the other hand, were still dealing with the numbers of tens of thousands, its remarkable. >> ali, true, there is a significant amount of background immunity in the general community. something either for bayern faction and recovery, and also from th...

On many people are not that severe. on the other hand, were still dealing with the numbers of tens of thousands, its remarkable. >> ali, true, there is a significant amount of background immunity in the general community. something either for bayern faction and recovery, and also from the number of people. not as many as you want, but a specific number of people, 67% of the population is fully vaccinated. but because we dont have a substantial proportion of those people boosted, even the good, h...

Going down or is its only going down because we are testing less? in other words, down because we are testing less? in otherwords, is down because we are testing less? in other words, is it more prevalent than we actually think it is? i think there is something to what you said, that we are certainly missing people who are getting infected, because people are doing home tests, the 15 minute tests, and when they get infected, particularly if they are not symptomatic, they dont report it as a posi...

Dr. anthony fauci sounding optimistic about where the nation stands on the coronavirus. fauci says the worse may be over with the omicron variant. >> we cant predict whether or not another variant is going to come from someplace else. remember, delta came from india. omicron came from africa. if we are staying with the virus we have now, we can feel comfortable that as we go out theres enough background immunity in the population, either from people who have been infected or people who have been...

I mean, russias tracking in terms of its vaccination rate, its lagging many of the other nations, you know, compared to europe and united states, lets say, according to the government figures released at the beginning of december, you have only 60 million who are double vaccinated. 69 million who have had their first vaccination. thats barely 40% of the population. the government says the sort of background immunity, if you will, is about 50%. so, you can see theres a huge challenge ahead. the l...

The future? >> you know, we dont know. i would have to be perfectly honest to you. you can surmise, you can project and guess, but we dont know. what likely happens, when you have waves of this, that after a while, theres enough background immunity, either from infection plus boost, or vaccine plus boost, or just plane infection and recover from infection. when you put it all together, you could have a degree of immunity in the community such that even if new variants emerge, they dont take that...

Pandemic, and we have been having our vaccinations every year since then. so it really is a totally different story than it was in 2009. >> so doctor, break this down for me a little bit. back in 2009, the h1n1 was new and now its not so new and you know how to deal with it and thats why its not going to be as big a problem? >> yes, there are two reasons. first, you remember in 2009, by the time we got the vaccine available for individuals throughout the country, the pandemic had already peaked....