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Ever happened and if you emerge from your constant state of terror, run back to it. that is telling you about the omicron variant. hospitalization rates are nine times lower than previous trains. deaths are negligible. why are people panicked? heather mcdonald has thought about this deeply. she has a brand-new piece on it in the spectator. heather, thanks so much for coming on. why are people so afraid of an illness that objectively speaking probably shouldnt terrify people? >> i have been so de...

Think about relying on those policies around masking, testing, increasing vaccinations, to get those case levels under control right now. >> youre talking about two to three weeks as a lagging indicator for the number of hospitalizations, dr. blackstock. have we gotten to two to three weeks? it feels like weve been dealing with this for some time. we announced it or learned of it back on thanksgiving, announced the first few cases here in the united states, just a few days later. >> right, so th...

Exemption to compete in the australia open in melbourne despite his opposition to vaccines, which are a requirement to compete in the tournament. melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in 2021. fans have taken to social media calling the decision a disgrace and calling for a boycott of the australian open. >> yeah. a lot of people upset in australia asking, why him? why him? they have been locked down, they have been behaving, so why does djokovic get to bend the rules? brooklyn nets ...

Is far better when it comes to the variant of this transmission, john. >> lets bring in our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, were at an interesting moment, if you will, in the sense that you do see in the data evidence that omicron is less severe in terms of how sick you get. but with the case count so high, there are still the challenges on the health care system. i want to look at numbers out of california. california hospitalizations, 52,000 people, omicron cases, com...

Vaccine has kept them from being more deadly and more dangerous. that is a fact. it is borne out by. so of the data. and thats why as the case count breaks all time records, the death rate is lower. and then we have the unvaccinated bearing the brunt of this. the president at one point saying it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated by the end of the year. with all that in mind, i want to play something incorrect but i want to play it so you can give us the medical view. we dont need to disparage e...

From your constant state of run back to it. that is telling you about the omicron variant. hospitalization rates are nine times lower than previous trains. deaths are negligible. why are people panicked? heather mcdonald has thought about this deeply. she has a brand-new piece on it in the spectator. heather, thanks so much for coming on. why are people so afraid of an illness that objectively speaking probably shouldnt terrify people? s>> i have been so depressed by the media, im calling everyt...

Firefighting equipment. it seems to me that we will not even see the first of these tests. we wont see them until later this month. if this had happened under trump, the pundits would be shouting they are not following the signs when it comes to the cdc. lurching to a five day quarantine. at the same time, we are in this bottom up shutdown. by the fact that they are so many affected workers. when we hear there are a half million new cases reported every day, that is actually in undercount. they ...

Going straight up like a rocket. i think soon we will be seeing millions of people getting infected on a daily basis. and the shame of it is that we have at our disposal something that can prevent athat and thos have vaccines. and due to politics or stubbornness or whatever, were not taking eadvantage of that. but when history is written, they will be laughing and saying, you know what? they had the cure and the treatment at their fingertips and they didnt use it. and that is a deadly shame. >> ...

Truth about the 2022 election, which of course makes donald trump mad. we begin with the coronavirus and a look at new actions and a new tone from the biden white house. covid infections up about 30% this week and deaths up 40%. the omicron variant driving the current case count, now with 150,000 new cases per day. they said the omicron variant should peak in a few weeks. they are driving some new actions as well, including todays announcement from the white house. the government is buying a h...

Brace yourself, because they are high. over the last two weeks, cases are up over 200%. but take caution in that because hospitalizations are only up 35% and deaths, deaths are actually down. the daily average is just over 1,300. more signs that omicron is less virulent, especially among those who are vaccinated. this map from the cdc tracts community transmission across the country. officials warn the holiday weekend is causing a case count delay. so what happens when you do test positive? beca...