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Total number of cases and focus on severity, how much more dangerous this virus is for the nonimunized. only 61% of the country is fully vaccinated at this moment, low in comparison to a lot of countries in europe like spain with 80% fully vaxed or denmark or ireland, also with more than three-quarters of their populations fully immunized. and only 18% in total have been boosted here so far, a number that sounds especially concerning with so many gathering for christmas as we speak. so could thi...

Going to be about locking the country down but rather about what to expect in these winter months, what steps we can all be taking now, and some dire warnings for the unvaxed in particular. will bidens new warnings resonate? remember, he campaigned on ending this pandemic. but nearly a year into his presidency, even with the miraculous vaccines, covid is still raging with a vengeance. were hearing now some of his advisers are encouraging him to alter his messaging about ending the pandemic and i...

Special christmas edition of "the cross connection." stay tuned because my friend, alex witt has the latest. hello my beautiful alex. >> i saw that you were going to work on christmas day and have that special show. ill be tuning in for that. that will be awesome. have a wonderful week. you had a great show, loved watching. >> thank you. thank you. ♪♪ and a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. it is high noon here in the east, 9:00 a.m. out west. welc...

To have been organising pop—up vaccination clinics for the homeless. or the team at home park in plymouth who have been regularly jabbing until 2am because theyjust carry on for as long as there are people they are wanting a booster. and i want to thank those from every walk of life who are stepping forward to support them, the military personnel, deployed across every region of the country, including an additional 100 in scotland from yesterday as well as 2500 firefighters. and since sunday n...

Say stocks havent run out. we need an increase in deliveries of lateral flow tests to us so that we can then give them out. at the minute, were only receiving 50 a day. we need to be closer to 200, 300. get your covid—19 booster vaccine to strengthen your protection. please get boosted now. englands chief medical officer made his plea in a tv advert tonight. earlier, hed warned ministers of a likely increase in hospital numbers, a view echoed by other senior officials. we are concerned with th...

Scientific close call. in that situation, it was my call to make. >> scientific close call. and you could watch the fda advisory meeting and take away the same thing. it was a close call when it came to authorizing vaccines for those in high-transmission environments. are you concerned, though, this creates confusion about the process and maybe sets back some of the booster effort in its kind of nascent stages here? >> thats always the risk of having transparency in the process. and unfortunatel...