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Had symptomatic infection. look at delta in the blue boxes. as you go the time since the vaccine and look at the weeks which are showed on the bottom line, you get a diminution against delta but a very profound diminution, below 40% effectiveness, with delta. when you boost, not only do you bring it up to delta in the blue but also to omicron. what does all of this tell us? last slide. we are in a situation where we are now facing a very important delta surge, and we are look over our shoulder a...

Just weeks. its now in at least 41 states. in new york city, hospitalizations are up 64% in just two weeks. >> the rapid growth is-- is frightening. >> reporter: columbia university medical centers dr. david ho is advocating for boorest because being fully vaccinated with the pfizer, moderna, and johnson & johnson vaccines is proving to be less effective against omicron. >> well, they all take a huge hit in terms of the antibodies they induce against omicron. >> reporter: this comes as pfizer an...

Nbcs lindsey riser is at a covid testing site. heidi przybyla broke the news story on msnbc.com about a new covid strategy for the biden administration on schools. and also with me have a doctor who is a professor at a school of medicine, also the director of the institute for auto immune and rheumatic diseases at st. joseph health. a big thanks to all of you. heidi, lets start with your brand new reporting. it has to do with a test to stay strategy for kids in school. how does that work? >> the...

Since 1999, several in joan petersons family. >> its almost like this monster that sits on thoop of the rooft, waiting to pluck away people. >> reporter: other companies have also been involved in the epidemic but purdue pled guilty in 2020 over the way itoxyconti pay over $8 billion. still sackler family members have never admitted wrongdoing and have said from the earliest days doctors were thrilled. >> they were extremely enthusiastic about the effectiveness and the safety and the reception t...

Variant. omicron is spreading tonight in the u.s. concerns over omicron rise. new booster mandates are surfacing around the country. correspondent jonathan serrie also a that story tonight from atlanta. >> in mid january, new yorks metropolitan opera and georgetown university will join a growing number of organizations requiring proof of vaccine boosters. the modify follows growing evidence that additional doses of existing vaccines reverse some of their waning effectiveness against new variants...

Those people becoming ill, ill enough to see their doctor or go in the hospital, you are going to severely tax hospital systems all over the country at some point. >> and just very briefly, i mean, someone whos already had two vaccines and thinks getting boosted is just, like, icing on the cake. its -- i mean, is that true? or this really -- it is necessary? i mean, i have been boosted. its necessary, isnt it? >> i have been boosted, as well. well, lets just put up that graph, again. i can just ...

Omicron variant. we will more on that, plus new data on the effectiveness -- good news -- of booster shots when it comes to omicron. talk it over with dr. sanjay gupta. ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ ♪ ♪ you are my fire ♪ ♪ the one desire ♪ ♪ you are, you are, ♪ ♪ dont wanna hear you say... ♪ ♪

Graph that were talking about, if you start to extrapolate that and, say, okay, omicron is so contagious that its -- everyone is going to be touched by this at some point. if youre vaccinate and boosted, the likelihood youre going to have significant symptoms is much lower. but the idea that you have such a significant percentage of vulnerable people in the country still, even with milder illness. if you get 0.5% or 1% even of those people becoming ill, ill enough to see their doctor or go in th...

People need to be reassured that if they follow dr. faucis guidance on vaccines and boosters with masks in public places, you should be able to enjoy life as it is. some semblance of normalcy. and that this is the new normal here. >> there does seem to be in confusion about the tools that we have been using to fight covid. dr. fauci talked about that in the context of omicron, as well. watch this. >> were getting preliminary information that not all of the diagnostic tests will be accurate with ...

Movement. and it is driven by the fact that the republican party exists now in an america that is rapidly changing, and it has failed on a widespread level to be able to attract nonwhite votes. so, thats their reaction to it. if you cant change demographics, which they cant. if you cant change who is americans, we can try to change who -- which americans can vote. and thats what this is about. and theyre very comfortable with this. they admit it. they say it. listen to them. believe them. and it...