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I think i -- i have better clarity about your -- your question at this point. so, what i would say is that the most commonly-used vaccines in the united states -- which would be the -- the, um, pfizer product and the product that was -- was developed by moderna -- um, have been shown to have, um, relatively high effectiveness for the prevention of hospitalization and death. and over time, relatively low -- low protection from infection. >> florida state senate democratic leader lauren book joins...

Klain and jen psaki emma they have any effectiveness in cleaning up this disaster? never mind the part that i think disturbs me the most and that is this guy is out to lunch. he seems to be declining right before our eyes almost to the point disintegrating with these long, awkward, uncomfortable pauses and the sentences that make no sense. he has lucid moments but he has a lot of bad moments. >> thats true but i think hes always had bad moments. he hasnt been front and center in the hot seat in ...

Mechanist ick pathways. >> there are a few things that come to mind here. and one here, i am editorializing for myself -- even if you found no finding -- i think its a general social welfare improvement for these households, so i would support it even if the finding came back no. thats my own editorializing on this. and we should say, theres been lots of studies on the effectiveness of pre-k, for instance. studies come out and sometimes the data get confounding as more studies come out. its poss...

And benefit both sides, you have to keep both sides i happy, and what i think weve already seen in this - conversation is a pretty politically polarised debate, | so you are damned if you do and damned if you dont- if you are facebook or twitter. susan, are you uncomfortable with twitter taking decisions about which politicians can and cannot reach the kind of scale that twitter offers? i think social media in general has, you know, tried to tip the scales because they can. youre right, theyre p...

Signoff. >> i dont think theres a chance that we will eradicate this. >> reporter: but dr. fauci says a national turn around could be a week or two away when it comes to the omicron surge. the world health organization is hoping the emergency phase of the pandemic will end this year. >> i think normal will look like many of these peaks and valleys of surges. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitals are now lower than a week ago. but deaths are higher than a week ago. while omicron cases are often mild...

Variant theyve worked on specific boosters. we havent needed them because the existing shots have provided a lot of benefit. thats good. the numbers may drop off by march or april when this booster may be available, but weve seen evidence of the shots waning in terms of effectiveness. so early spring and summer? probably not. those are two reasons they want to keep this in the back pocket. we dont know whether the trial will demonstrate that an omicron specific booster is of any more benefit eit...

Available as a two dose regimen. the researchers looking into the effectiveness of possibly needing three doses. pfizer is hoping the vaccine will be available for kids by the end of the month. house republicans pressuring cdc rochelle walensky to do better with school mask mandates. writing a letter "cdc is undermining its own credibility as it continues to jeopardize an entire generation development." >> ashley: kentucky congressman james comer signed off on the letter and joins us now to reac...

Now this is after the cdc said the regular cloth mask buy in a grocery store are of limited effectiveness against the omicron. >> so what the heck is going on here? >> well, theres actually broad consensus now by public healthhe officials acknowledging privately and theyre starting to say so publicly pu that the masks have almost no impact on transmission whatsoever. and weve basically known that the entire time becauseso the size of anli aerosolized covid virus is about one to five microns and ...

Variant here. everyones lives are disrupted. people died in huge numbers. one of the chances that we will have to complete another cycle like that? >> its not more immune evasive, which means that people who have just gotten the boosters, and we know the effectiveness now of the boosters versus the people who have not gotten vaccinated for example, but for people who just got omicron this month, the concern isnt that people who are gonna get infected again, the concern is that the people who hav...

Ukrainian capitol. new prediction that the surge of the omicron variant will peak before the end of this month and that would be followed by a steep decline in infections here in the u.s. we are also getting new information about just how serious the pandemic remains. correspondent jonathan serrie has details tonight from the home of the cdc in atlanta. >> two years after confirming its first covid case the u.s. is averaging more than 740,000 new cases per day. driven by the highly infectious om...