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Because they are vaccinated because they are breakthrough cases. we do see a small number of those. those are particularly prevalent to those not boosted. if youve done the due diligence of getting vaccinated, get the boost. the unfortunate reality is that 88% of folks that have to come to hospital are still unvaccinated. and were still looking for ways to reach that population, to help them learn and make the right choices, to vaccination. >> with michigan hospitals so full, with health care st...

Protection. if people are thinking i dont want to get another dose every six months, when will this end? it will stop when the pandemic ends. the longer we wait to get everyone vaccinated. there was 50 mutation investigation that spike protein, right? so there is a potential there. does that concern you at all? >> it does, that there could be breakthrough cases, and people relying on the fact that if i have these two doses i should be

Vaccinated populations? we know obviously there are breakthrough infections for sure. the good news about breakthrough infections tends to be people dont get as sick. theyre less likely to be hospitalized, theyre less likely to get seriously ill. theyre less likely to die. is there some silver lining here? some reason for hoping that some of these case numbers are breakthrough infections so that people are likely to end up in the hospital? >> thats certainly a possibility, but i will tell you th...

Dont get as sick. theyre less likely to be hospitalized and less likely to get seriously ill and less likely to die. is there some silver lining? some reason for hoping that the cases are not breakthrough infections and people are not likely to end up in the hospital? >> thats certainly a possibly. i would tell you that 88% of michigans population of hospitalized patients and 88% of those who go on to die are those who are not fully vaccinated. much more risk in the unvaccinated population. we l...

First go-around. i had several people that were taken to the hospital that werent vaccinated from delta. one who almost died. i think thats a great danger here. the shots were still effective against delta, and it appears the shots, it looks like, will be effective against omicron too. >> again, this is all early. were still learning as we go. the early sense about this new variant is it is very transmissible, even more so than delta. but the severity of the illness may not be quite as significa...

Massachusetts health officials on Tuesday reported more than 11,000 new breakthrough cases over the past week, and 61 more deaths.

The booster not only for omicron but also delta. as i said since the beginning and as we have discussed and in my opinion this is a three dose vaccine and i believe that eventually what counts as full immunization is three doses just because we gave the first two so close together and meant we have a lot of waning immunity and now seeing breakthrough cases and hospitalizations from people who have gotten two doses. and thats going to continue for delta and even be worse for omicron. if you get t...

>> im glad, arthel the, that question came up because there is this concept that the vaccines are not working. but again, they do two entirely different things. they protect you from testing positive, and that they dont do the a good job of after 4-6 months, and then they protect you against severe illness and dying. and for that, theyre still incredibly durable. and i dont think that message is really out there, that that they still do the an amazing job preventing against hospitalizations. and...

"The more testing that we can do to identify cases early and then treat them and isolate them, the better we'll do in stopping the spread."

It's the biggest number of pandemic-related hospitalizations since February.