Delta Is News Today

>> listen, this is now crunch time. this is among the bustbusiest d. on the roads about 100 million people or so clogging interstates. so from the 101 out west to the 95 in the east, a hot more traffic. the avenuuation story today a couple headlines. first delta airlines, they are calling for the cdc to reduty the mamt of time that you should isolate if youre vaccinated and boosted and still test positive. delta is ---ed they are saying they are concerned, the staffing shortages and the impact o...

Infected. >> what did we learn from delta that we should apply to omicron? >> delta is -- yeah, delta is such a bad variant. and its funny because right now were sort of all focused on omicron. delta is whats killing a thousand americans every day. what we have learned is boosters are essential. you cannot get away with just two shots if youre six months out. what we have learned is that it rips through populations of unvaccinated people very, very quickly. and i expect that omicron, if it ends ...

In the united states right now, and we expect to have an answer about the severity of delta in children this month, but the clinician in me, the clinician in me who takes care of patients does believe delta is -- poses a greater threat to children. i say that because we had our first child die of covid in our hospital this past month, and talking to colleagues around the country, everyone is seeing more very sick children with covid than weve ever seen before. so the data arent there yet, but i ...

What happened over that time period? the numbers came down overall, which was good, but at the same time the delta variant started to enter the scene and you saw the numbers pop back up. that was primarily people who had not been vaccinated. we know this is a much more transmissible variant. the alpha variant was 50% more transmiscible before the strain, and the delta is -- in scotland a study showed the people infected with the delta variant was more likely to be hospitalized. so it appears to ...

>> hundreds of flights. >> this is such a -- >> its a nightmare. >> such a bad business. >> its a horrible business. now, jetblue. and, of course, we fly all the time. ive got to say right now. from a distance, the one airline that always seems to have it together is jetblue. are they doing alreal right? >> they are doing all right. do you remember what they called the valentine state massacre? i was on one of those flights so i have very mixed views, lets say. >> we feel that way sometimes. >> ...