in washington d.c. of course, you ve heard about nancy pelosi and a key number of congress and women who have come down congressmen and women. but exactly how serious to is this? serious enough in shanghai, china, to essentially shut down that city it s been locked down. shanghai disney is closed, and that could be an indefinite problem right there. that is, of course, an epicenter for a lot of technology, activity and production. softbank, the big apple phone maker is out there, tesla had to delay a planned opening there, but how much of a threat is this, and should we be concerned about it? the infebruary chose infectious disease specialist senior scholar, doctor, good to see you again. i was reading somewhere that this is about 94% of the new cases we re getting even in this country. is it worrisome? should we be worried? i don t think we need to worry, but we have to be vigilant. ba.2 is the most contagious
version we ve seen, but you have you have to remember that s a population that has a lot of immunity from prior infection, access to monoclonals and antivirals. yes, we re going to see cases go up, people are going to get infected, but it s unlikely to translate into hospital hospitalizations because there s a lot of dedecoupling that went on, decoupling that hasn t gone on in shanghai. neil: if you argue, it started in china, of course, extra vigilant about this, but a good number particularly in shanghai not vaccinated. i m wondering if that s what s made it a problem or are there other factors many. china has pursued this covid zero policy, but they also didn t vaccinate their high risk population, so that s why something like ba.2 which isn t causing a problem in many western cubs is countries is
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