- for chesa boudin to intervene in so many cases is both bad management and dangerous for the city of san francisco. - we are for criminal justice reform. chesa s not it. recall chesa boudin now. once it gets in there, it will likely under the radar be spreading no matter what you do to keep people out or not. that s the way viruses work. we saw that happen with delta. i do hope that omicron doesn t have that kind of advantage, particularly if it turns out to be serious. dr. fauci today on where we all may be headed. the first case was confirmed in the u.s. just two days ago, and in two days we re up to 11 states and tomorrow there will be more. and it s spreading as hospitals
omicron, we ve seen that in africa with the spikes that are going up, once it gets many there, it will likely under the radar scheme be spreading no matter what you coto keep people out or not. that s the way viruses work. we saw that happen well a that. i do hope that omicron doesn t have that kind of advantage, particularly if it turns out to be serious. neil: let s hope he s right, the fact is we got around 20,000 at the border and about 28% that are affected by this virus or carrying to covid virus. that would work out to a little bit more than 4,000 who have virus right now and are literally at our door step. doctor [inaudible] with us right now. dr., we don t know a lot about where omicron is going. what we coknow is a lot of people we do know is a lot of people who have contracted this have come through our border. i m just wondering not knowing
given what we know about the trans missability advantage of omicron, we ve seen that in africa with the spikes that are going up. once it gets in there, it will likely under the radar be spreading no matter what you do to keep people out or not. that s the way viruss work. we saw that happen with delta. i do hope that omicron doesn t have that kind of advantage, particularly if it turns out to be serious. the good news you mentioned is even though you can t make a full extrapolation on a small number of cases, we don t see severe disease. neil: doctor, many times we talked in the past, you talk about you follow the science. you acknowledge the science can change. first you dissuaded the public from buying masks back in the