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This is dr. ranney and assistant dean of public health at brown university. doctor, lets start there with this poll. 48% of unvaccinated americans saying nothing will convince them to get the shot. omicron is not impacting them. not the delta wave, not the threat of omicron, which leads me to wonder, should the administration and health officials kind of take this number to heart and start shifting the goal away from full vaccination to something else? >> i think theyve already taken this number...

I mean, the problem is we do have the pfizer pill. theres also the merck pill, but thats turning out to be less useful. the pfizer pill looks really, really good, really compelling, 90% reduction. there are two problems. fda has been sitting on the data, still hasnt authorized it. all of us feel like no time like the present, lets go fda. second is we dont have a ton of doses of these things. we have got to figure out how to ramp up production, get it out. these things once they become widely av...

Now i think its going to be closer to 2. we obviously need to see what else is going on are omicron. it could be lower than that. thats not even considering what could happen if build back better doesnt become law. that could also have an impact on growth early 2022. >> thats really interesting, mark. thats a big change in your forecast, down to two when you were expecting potentially nearly five. you think the impact solely because of what weve now learned with omicron, thats not even factoring...

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President biden going forward as well. >> would you like to respond some. >> sure, dr. wen and others are right. we need to be prepared for all these situations. the difference between the delta wave now and omicron wave now is just the intensity that well see all at one moment. thats going to mean in certain places, new york, california, if it comes here quickly, and other places like that, theres just going to be an overpowering result. now the president has done a number of things. didnt just...

Doctor raahib ali is an epidemiologist from cambridge university and is also a nhs consultant.he joins me from high wycombe in england. did not add for the restrictions of the stare? , ,, the stage? good evening. i think, liven the the stage? good evening. i think, given the large — the stage? good evening. i think, given the large amount _ the stage? good evening. i think, given the large amount of - given the large amount of uncertainty that there is about the key metric that we need to know...

Time of the delta wave is that voluntary changes to peoples behaviour and the number of contacts, not attending christmas parties or those parties being cancelled. and hate in impact on how covid—19 could spread and we have seen this before. the rates were not going to continue doubling every two days because thats not the way pandemics work. we dont know if the slowdown is going to be sustained, but it is encouraging that it is certainly decreased we appear to be approaching this but it is st...

So, the proportion of people who are getting the omicron variant who are ending up on hospital is substantially lower than in the delta wave. so, you know, more tests need to be done both in the lab and in the clinical setting, but it is a case that here in south africa at least this wave is far less severe in terms of serious cases. rosemary? >> still a lot to learn. but very interesting. david mckenzie joining us live from johannesburg. many thanks. chinese tennis star peng shuai says theres...

Well, germany has followed france in imposing restrictions on travellers from the uk. while the country still has lower case numbers than the uk, the number of deaths following a positive covid test is rising. im joined now by kai zacharowski, who is head of the intensive care unit at the university hospital frankfurt. welcome to the programme. the german health minister was saying a couple of days ago he expects the omicron variant to unleash what he called a massive fifth wave of the pandemic....

Professional sports leagues are cancelling games, major colleges are moving to remote learning and keep in mind were still in the throes of the delta wave, the delta variant still accounts for 97% of reporting infections here in the u.s. right now, but we know omicron is more transmissible and it is spreading fast. >> this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. right now in certain regions. country 50% of the ice lets are omicron which means its going ...