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Federal and state covid restrictions that continue to overstay their welcome. but doctor fauci says it may never be clear where lockdowns were worth it in the first place and now hes warning of more potential restrictions. [laughter] congress mark sits on the house sub committee on coronavirus -- crisis task force he joins me now. all right congressmen, so weve seen the impact on average day people and businesses as well as the students. why is he doing this again covid is never going to go away...

Demanding an end to lingering federal and state covid restrictions that continue to overstay their welcome. but doctor fauci says it may never be clear where lockdowns were worth it in the first place and now hes warning of more potential restrictions. [laughter] congress mark sits on the house sub committee on coronavirus -- crisis task force he joins me now. all right congressmen, so weve seen the impact on average day people and businesses as well as the students. why is he doing this again c...

Demanding an end to lingering federal and state covid restrictions that continue to overstay their welcome. but doctor fauci says it may never be clear where lockdowns were worth it in the first place and now hes warning of more potential restrictions. [laughter] congress mark sits on the house sub committee on coronavirus -- crisis task force he joins me now. all right congressmen, so weve seen the impact on average day people and businesses as well as the students. why is he doing this again c...

You. we begin this year a little like last, as i mentioned. walk us through what it is that we know about the enduring power of vaccines even as the variants mutate and what it means when experts say you dont want to get this, but its not as bad as the others? >> well, i think we have to distinguish transmission and virulence. transmission is how easily is omicron transmitted between people, and it seems to be incredibly easy. lots of people i talk to, they dont know where they got it. they have...

Is covid. 2021 began with a vaccine rollout, still has ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to peoples health. we have been talking to dr. fauci across the pandemic learning about his guidance and what to do if the facts change and new variants emerge. >> the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating because it is an interesting tenet of virology. the only way a virus can mutate is if you allow i...

This country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking, the distancing, the avoiding congregate settings. on the other hand, please go out and get vaccinated. the combination of vaccination and public health measures will bring the level of virus down so low, you wont give it a chance to mutate. thats what we need to do. >> right. >> and then theres the other side of the vaccination coin, a contentious policy that stir...

Infected some time in mid-2020. in the new species, the virus e involved with 50 knewations, spilling back over into people. can we get rid of this strain if we dont know where it came from? >> i dont think the issue is where it actually came from. theres multiple scenarios here. we dont have an answer at this point. and it doesnt matter from where we stand right now. the theories are, it could have spilled over from an animal. we could have had the original variant go back into an animal and pa...