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It does seem an emerging theme is less severe illness even if we dont understand the mechanism thats producing it. >> chris, its great to be with you. and also with craig. i think this is a really important point youre making. the severity of the illness is hard to gauge, but as you reviewed theres now data from three countries, scotland, england, denmark. it all looks favorable. as well as south africa. so we have lower severity, which is partly from our immunity wall, but there are some hints ...

Although in south africa, for example, which has a lower vaccination rate than the u.s. theres also a lot of seropref lens. a lot of people had covid. coming off a huge delta wave. those combine for some sort of patchwork of immunity wall, right? >> exactly. for sure. >> dr. spencer, let me ask you, we talked to you throughout this pandemic. youve worked all over the world in very intense situations of viral outbreaks. you were a doctor during the ebola crisis. you were in new york during this f...

Through new york, hopefully theyll be just where london has had it and where south africa has already been. >> yeah. and i think the reason the san francisco data was fascinating to me is when the u.s. records 750,000, a million cases a day, you know, that is a fraction of the actual number of people that have covid or contracted covid on that day. i dont know if its 1/5, 1/10 or 1/20, but lots more people are getting this thing than are presenting and the positive part of that, particularly if ...

Since 2020, february 2020, which is a pretty remarkable number. 69% say they considered leaving their job. so, i want to talk about the math of omicron. and what its doing to hospitals. so let me first go to the mat. doctor craig spencer, lets say that you have a generic variant of the coronavirus. i remember having to try and get my head around the mouth of this when i first came, which is even though its individually not at risk to have given an individual a healthy 35-year-old, right? if it r...

Substantively and politically. it is also the biggest challenge for us as american society, civil society. our institutions. what is on the other side here is on a lot of peoples minds this holiday season. andy slavitt served as white house senior adviser for the covid response in the biden administration working to get as many people vaccinated as possible. he is the author of "preventible" the inside story of the u.s. coronavirus response being doomed. lets just start on the vaccination data. ...

That the san francisco data was fascinating to me, when the u.s. record 750,000 or 1 million cases per day, that is a fraction of the actual number of people that have covid, or contracted covid on that day. i dont know if its one fifth, i dont know if its one tenth, or one 20th, but lots more people are getting this thing then are presenting. and, the positive thing about that is -- that builds up an immunity wall for whatever comes next. >> thats right. we could be talking about five or 6 mill...

Childrens hospital in philadelphia said that right now we have about 90% population immunity, meaning people who have either been naturally infected or vaccinated or both. he also said that masks should be worn indoors for a few more weeks. what does being at 90% immunity actually mean in terms of getting out of this pandemic? >> a lot of people have been infected. and we have much more of an immunity wall, so to speak. and even people -- even a lot of the people who are getting infected now are...

And were still far from that. so were moving in the right direction. we just have to be a little bit, you know, more patient. when youre treating a person with cancer, you dont stop the chemotherapy when things are looking better. you stop the chemo when their tumors gone. and we still have a ways to go. >> dr. paul offit of the childrens hospital in philadelphia said that right now we have about 90% population immunity, meaning people who have either been naturally infected or vaccinated or bot...

Being doomed. lets just start on the vaccination data. it continues to be a kind of informational bed rock here for all of this.l here is the new york data. hospitalization data. that were seeing right now. you know, were just seeing a huge difference between the hospitalizations for folks that are unvaccinated and vaccinated. you can see that enormous spike there in folks who are unvaccinated. thats like per capita versus d vaccinated. we see this play out all over the place. the sort of immuni...