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Individuals because you want to provide those individuals with early treatment. however, i and probably most other public health experts do not think that is a sound approach, especially when so many of our hospitals are getting overwhelmed at this point. remember, at the beginning of the pandemic we talked about flattening the curve, the entire idea was that even if a lot of people are going to get infected anyway, lets try to spread out the infections over time, so that were not straining very...

This is spreading a lot faster. theres a concern there. >> good and well to get boosters to children who are double vaccinated. the take up rate for kids we know is low. i guess from your perspective why is this. how does the government the medical community combat this. >> its tough i think were all exhibiting a little bit of pandemic fatigue. the virus isnt tired of us. thats what we have to remember. everybody individual action is what goes into when you are considering a pandemic. its the co...

Window when you might not have symptoms but you might be positive. whoever you are though, try to quarantine, wear a mask around others until you can get that test. >> if you just had covid over the holidays, when should you get your booster, or should you wait? >> you dont need to wait. we want -- we recommend doing your booster as soon as you finish isolation so its not like with the first shots. you dont need to wait. get that booster. it can be very important. infection alone will likely not...

Still infected. and what were seeing with omicron, its just such a different time period from when you get infected to turning positive and the properties of the virus are just very different that it doesnt get picked up as well by the rapid test. so, what do we default to? the pcr. and as you point out, its really hard to get one and the turn around time isnt useful. in the real world with my own patients, im telling them f youre sick, stay home. lets assume, until we can get you tested, lets a...

Longer than the first two vaccines where we knew we needed boosters five to six months later. but there are some preprint studies that show that immunity from a booster might decrease after about ten weeks, which is why youre seeing countries like israel going to a fourth shot but i will tell you, none of these studies can pick up on memory cells, which are great and have really kicked in to help protect us against infections so i think more data will come forward to show boosters last a lot lon...

But its decreased compared to what it was before. >> all right, this is a good one. how long do boosters last, and if you are vaccinated, can you still spread omicron more easily than someone who is not vaccinated? >> yeah, so, with omicron, were trying to understand exactly how infectious it is, and it still looks like vaccinated people, yes, can infect others. unvaccinated individuals do seem to have higher loads of viruses in their upper airways, so yes, unvaccinated people can infect others ...

Hr-1 because -- unless they federalize these elections theyre going to win 100 seats. internally, they got it. they understand. they cant show economic -- they cant show economics, the countrys being invaded on the southern border. its a complete catastrophe, about to shut down the whole country because they werent prepared for omicron and lied about it. the only thing they got is they got to grab the apparatus at a federal level and steal the elections. i understand what theyre doing. if i was ...

Turning over documents as both seeds wait to see if the supreme court will weigh in on whether the former president can keep his records from seeing the light of day. and tributes continuing to pour in for betty white, the national treasure passing away just short of her 100th birthday. a look at her life and career ahead. we do, though, want to begin with the coronavirus pandemic, testing facilities nationwide swamped by crowds waiting for covid tests as omicron continues its rapid sweep ac...

Rates? >> thats a very good point. and we are really moving in that direction. it becomes even more relevant when youre dealing -- and we hope, as you mentioned early on, one of the positive encouraging things is that it appears that omicron, from data both in south africa, the uk, and accumulating data here in the united states, indicates that it very well might not be as severe. and many people, from studies that are going on right now, who get omicron have either no symptoms or minimally symp...

Infections. with new cases drawing less of a curve and more of a straight vertical line. new cases in the last two weeks are up by 126%. the world health organization said today theyre anticipating a, quote, tsunami of new cases worldwide over the next few weeks. so far, thankfully, we have not seen a tsunami of new hospitalizations and deaths along with the spread of omicron. the hospitalization rate is in fact up over the last two weeks but only by 11%, much below the rate of new infections. d...