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Blaming breakthrough cases. huge crowd have gathered outside of radio city music hall. we are seeing crowds we have not seen in nears in new york city -- years in new york city. there are more tourists. that radio city spectacular is spectacular. sad they had to cancel shows because of a spike in cases. >> john: we were talked to dr. nicole saphier going from pandemic to endomic and covid will with us with forever. there is a possibility everybody will get it particularly with omicron variant an...

Illness, hospitalization and death, even as were seeing breakthrough infects here. based on what youre seeing there, is that still true in. >> thats certainly consistent with our experience. i cant say we have had no breakthrough cases that require hospitalization, but it is a small minority compared to the unvaccinated population. >> okay. is that moving people there? do you find? there is still a portion of this country who is hesitant and i think a sad fact of omicron is there are more breakt...

And the hospitals, theyll soon overwhelm. but theres good news. if youre vaccinated, have your booster shot, youre protected from severe illness and death. and, josh, lets add anecdotally what the president said. it feels like the virus is everywhere. i know so many in the past few days who have tested positive, even though theyre fully vaccinated and have had the booster. things are being canceled left and right. what are your takeaways from the presidents comments there, and whats going to b...

Unvaccinated, breakthrough cases are happening left and right. everybody i know that is getting it now has been vaccinated. please talk to your doctor. please inform yourself. taken to account to your own medical condition. talk to your own doctors and also therapeutics. if you have a breakthrough case. what are monoclonal antibodies. ask your doctor. pete, thank you karen congressman, thank you. senator elizabeth warren lashing out at the worlds richest man. a lot smarter than her,

We have colder and drier air. because a lot of people are unvaccinated. that means tough decisions in codes across the united states. we are crisis standards of care. rationing of resources. we talked about it during the delta wave and we are going to be talking about in the weeks ahead. that is not going to be the case with the vaccinated. two things are going to be true. the vaccinated will largely be protected from omicron. they might get seeing breakthrough cases. those with not that. how do...

Saying if you said real protection from this rapidly spreading variant omicron, you have to get a booster. americas covid time warp, long testing and vaccination lines in miami. familiar fears of exposure. >> im so scared, so i decided to make an appointment to get tested just in case. >> reporter: in new york city the positivity rate has doubled in just four days. the city health adviser tweeted we have never seen this before in nyc. radio city music hall canceled fridays showses of the christm...

Me. >> if the unvaccinated have to go to hospitals, what will this do to our hospitals that are already stressed? >> its going to be problematic. there are 10,000 weekly deaths forecasted week after week into march. that coincides with flu season because of seasonality. a lot of people are still unvaccinated. for crisis standards of care, rationing of resources. we talked about it with the delta wave, well be talking about it in weeks ahead. thats not going to be the case for the unvaccinated. t...

Op-ed last week and you talked through the issues that youre seeing. today we heard jeff zients say this is not a moment to panic because we know how to protect people. would you agree with that assessment in. >> i think it is true. the reality, and ive been doing emergency medicine 20 years, panicking never helps anything. if you freak out, that doesnt make us safer or less likely to get sick. we need to do the things that weve been saying all along, however. you know, people need to get vaccin...

Not vaccinated, health officials say you should be very worried. >> we are in a situation where we are now facing a very important delta surge. and were looking over our shoulder at an oncoming omicron surge. clearly, unvaccinated individuals, as jeff said in the beginning, are really at a high risk of serious involvement, including hospitalization. the fully vaccinated are doing much better off. but as ive shown you in the previous five or six slides, the optimum protection is fully vaccinated ...

What kind of -- paint a picture hear. is it a city shutting down or is it a city wanting to persevere? >> reporter: well, this is your picture right here, chuck. i mean, take a look. you talk about eerie, you talk about deja vu. this testing line stretches down the street, people have lined up well before 6:00 this morning, it opened at 7:00. the line is two hours long. weve got the rockettes, theyve canceled four shows today, all four of their shows because theyve had breakthrough cases among p...