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Of these people who are immunosuppressed hang onto virus for months and mutation can occurment i wouldnt lose sleep, i would be talking, the lamba, the mu, and omicron for many months and only omicron has spread like wildfire through the world and will provide us with significant immunity and not bad, clinical symptoms? >> when we were last talking, doctor, you talked about the virus will be here forever. and the president says he doesnt think that covid is here to stay. are you right? >> i thin...

Everyone has, the choice to make, no doubt, but it is clear that everyone has the ability to make a choice to save their lives. and to prevent hospitalization. if they get vaccinated and get the booster. and so i urge people to do that. >> it comes against the backdrop of just about a week ago the vice president was asked in a newspaper interview to talk about these new variants. and she said we didnt see delta coming, we didnt see omicron coming, and then later had to clean up those remarks by ...

With the level of nonvaccination youre going to have a level of mutation with the level of virus out there in the world. so it should have been anticipated. and youve said since the beginning of delta, since june perhaps they certainly have been slow to respond to change their direction on a number of fronts including accepting that its here to stay and theyve got to adjust to a new normal. >> well, i think that -- i think thats the most important thing for us to understand is that covid is goin...

I think the kind of pain- you are seeing on high streets and village shops, consumers had hoped to recoup - the losses of the last year _ by bumper sales and time for people to go out and shop, etc, - and instead they are being hit by another wave, this time omicron, | not sure exactly how long it will goi on, will there be a lockdown and all this creates - a lot of uncertainty. and of course if you mention china, china unlike many countries - in the west and indeed many. countries around the wo...

Early starting to go down this fantastic news. thats what peaked early we have several weeks of this spike and surge that roll out across the country we are providing this virus to ramp across the country is more opportunity to mutate has more opportunity to mutate is more opportunity to potentially create a mutation or a variant like omicron that could have more contagious it could be more virulent, it could create more severe disease. so the likelihood is will seat many more variants coming do...

Anticipate variants. i know you have a baseline, if youre not a doctor a baseline understanding of variants and all that sort of thing but basically were a mutation. i dont know what she was studying. >> exactly, harris. thats brilliant. whats going on if countries like africa is they arent vaccinating people and people have h.i.v. and if you got covid it percolates for a while and mutates inside a person and where we think omicron actually came from. so if you have whole areas spreading covid a...

Narrative thats being put out, especially mainly from conservative media? >> well, look, i mean when you work in politics you acknowledge theres lots of different narratives out there. and, you know, thats how a guy like bill clinton is in third place in may of the year that he gets elected president. thats how george bush is at, what, 90% popularity and loses nine months later. people are constantly dealing with different pressures in their lives. i think the overall tone in this country is bei...

Country. arthel: vaccine mandate constitutionally approved and how do we control the spread and mutation of virus and revitalize the health of struggling businesses as well as the american society? >> you are right to frame the question in that way because it really is a holistic set of considerations. theres always risks and benefits, opportunity cost to everything we do. mandates on businesses require their employees to have vaccines imposes on them, reduces their staffing, reduces production ...

Country. >> yeah. you talked earlier about how democrats dont support closures. they dont support lockdowns at this point. but where there are closures, for the most part, it is important to understand, those arent because people are making political decisions to slow the spread. its because there literally arent enough staff for schools, right? with airplane cancellations, with stores changing their hours. a huge part of the reason that the country right now feels so abnormal is because we just...

Curveball we should see many fewer cases and it will be a chance to really ask the question, how do we invest in the public health system to protect us for the long term. >> the fact theres been such a spread and so many people now have covid make out more vulnerable to the next variant and more mutation? >> it may make us less vulnerable with a lingering immune protection from this. we have to see. i think what omicron does show is that it has a capacity, this coronavirus, has the capacity to m...