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Youre 20 times more likely to die of covid if you are unvaccinated compared to if youre vaccinated and boosted. yes, we know with omicron that has more mutations and able to evade our vaccines better, that we are going to see vaccinated and even boosted people have breakthrough cases. and they will have breakthrough cases with mild disease or perhaps even asymptomatic disease. what i would say is that those are those vaccines working and working well because those vaccines are working to prevent...

And we know president biden is facing questions about if they should have been more prepared, if they were unprepared for this round. was new york city unprepared for this winter surge? >> well, i think that we have been slow to recognize that vaccination is not enough when youre dealing with a variant like omicron which has such a high number of breakthrough cases. we really have to do much more to push remedies like masking, testing, social distancing. its not enough just to say get vaccinated...

The number of cases is exploding. but the most important thing is in vaccines and boosters are working. we have to understand what is going on and what will happen. there will be a lot of breakthrough cases. if you have been vaccinated and boosted, you may get infected. but you will likely have mild symptoms. that is always in biology. there is always exceptions. and vaccinated and not boosted with symptoms, well show symptoms. unvaccinated are in the intensive care units today. this variant is ...

Colleagues, including a lot of doctors that you and i both know who are having breakthrough cases. the i think the point here are two things. absolutely, the congressman is right. these vaccines were never meant to prevent you from ever getting infected. they were meant to prevent hospitalizations. were still unpacking how our vaccines in the real world advance to omicron. what you saw last week was some lab-based data and now, were waiting for uk, south africa, countries who have come before us...

Maybe we should have gone back into something like a lockdown? are we reacting and chasing our tail now with this disease? >> thats a good question. over the days ahead many of us will have family members and friends who tell us that theyre testing positive for covid. the reason for that is because this is an incredibly transmissible variant. when delta arrived, we talked about how more transmissible that was than alpha but were seeing with the omicron variant, this is a new level of transmissib...

Exploding. but the most important thing is that vaccines and boosters work. we have to understand whats going on. and what will happen. there will be a lot of breakthrough cases. if youve been vaccinated and boosted, you may get infected, but you will likely have mild symptoms. theres always in biology -- theres always exceptions. in vaccinated, not boosted individuals, there are going to be breakthrough cases, it will be symptomatic. its the unvaccinated that i lose sleep over because its the u...

If theyre trying to travel, they need results now. and thats where these rapid tests come in. d.c. today is launching a test yourself express at libraries across d.c. theyre handing out 1,000 free rapid tests. you can go get your test, take it in 15 minutes. youll have a result, and thats what theyre trying to do, but it comes to supply. thats 8,000 tests. d.c. says they have 40,000 rapid tests on hand, but theyve just this week ordered 1 million tests. however, those tests wont be here until ja...

A Los Angeles resident has tested positive for Coronavirus for the second time in 2021 since he was vaccinated earlier this year.

A Los Angeles resident has tested positive for Coronavirus for the second time in 2021 since he was vaccinated earlier this year.

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