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Is going to save lives and make this country a better place. >> is the president open to or interested many moving toward a vaccine requirement for domestic flights? >> you know, as dr. fauci said and something we always look at, we have got these two vaccine requirements headed to the supreme court on january 7th. i think our plan is to see what the court does on those. i think that you know, theres little evidence that the virus is being spread by people while they are on airplanes. people are...

Larks but the news about pediatric hospitalizations is shocking and saddening and terrifying for everyone. and the pace at which omicron seems to take down, i dont know how many folks are out of your workplace, but at mine, it feels like designated survivor to be one of the humans walking around these halls. i wonder if you can just take me inside the early days of really your beginning to understand sort of the size and scope of this countrys omicron wave. >> yeah, i think right after thanksgiv...

Unrelated. all that said, its important, because it means that about half of the patients with covid may have been here anyway. and when it comes to the hospitalizations as a metric in terms of hospital strain, its not as indicative as you might think, because i do think we would have seen these patients regardless of the omicron surge at least about 50% of them or so. >> how would you -- this idea of omicron being less severe, what have you noticed with the unvaccinated versus the vax knitted o...

Back on. >> doctor, is it time for mandates to be lifted considering what were seeing? >> well, we are saying a downtrend in cases almost all across the country. the thing about omicron being so infectious is a lot of people were infected. its likely the case will continue to climb because the virus doesnt have that many new places to go. do we know masks are effective add preventing transmission? yes. on an individual level, absolutely. it will protect you. if you feel safer wearing a mask, go ...

Given anti—virals, we know if you give anti—virals early in an illness you can substantially reduce the risk of severe disease. so any person of that age, who is through their age more at risk of severe disease, you would be wanting to give them anti—virals quite early on. give them anti-virals quite early on. , ., , , on. even if they have been triple vaccinated _ on. even if they have been triple vaccinated and _ on. even if they have been triple vaccinated and we _ on. even if they have...

And many other populations. i know we are waiting for _ and many other populations. i know we are waiting for the _ and many other populations. i know we are waiting for the data - and many other populations. i know we are waiting for the data to - and many other populations. i know we are waiting for the data to come | we are waiting for the data to come back from a number of scientific studies but, as far as south africa goes, how is that spread of omicron being reflected in hospitalisations a...

Virus and the major protein of the virus, there are a lot of changes and mutations in the spike region which comprises the immunity we make from the vaccines. i would be very surprised if there was no immunity from our current vaccines to this new variant. i would actually be pretty confident well have some level of protection or efficacy especially from hospitalized or from deaths. we are on the leading edge so i dont want to be too confident just yet but right now were not seeing a lot of hosp...

Youve seen this in many countries he ensuring they dont spread omicron. the mood here is one of disappointment, one of anger and that south africa is being targeted specifically for its genomic sequencing excellence which it had been doing since the start of hiv aids epidemic. many experts are saying south africa should be commended for identifying the omicron variant and that this is a scientific success and the response should be one ever assistance as opposed to banning flights. now as youve ...