Omicron Versus News Today

christina, let me start with you with nuts and bolt, where do things go from here and what were seeing in the market so far. that had been a question mark. >> i guess i should reference your song. "i saw the sign." they saw the sign the fed was going to hike. the markets are reacting positively at the moment. the dow is up 1%. youre seeing the nasdaq in positive territory. the s&p 500 in positive territory. the concerning point is jerome powell, the chair fed is speak and they changed ...

Getting covid is smaller than the general population. how do you talk to parents and patients given what you know is the science behind these vaccines? >> when we talk about ending up in the hospital and, hallie, its six times the rate of kids end up in the hospital with covid-19 especially in this age of omicron than what we typically see in a bad cold and flu season. if your kid came down with the flu, the risk of ending up in the hospital with omicron is six times higher. that is significant....

Unvaccinated people? omicron versus delta, omicron versus the earlier variance. is omicron less severe both in vaccinated and unvaccinated people or are unvaccinated people essentially opened this in a way that there is really no mercy for them from the virus? >> yes, two things are going. on first of all, theres more breakthrough infections and there was with delta. so that means we have a bigger pull of vaccinated people getting invested. but there is no question about it that their levels of ...

Really just makes me sad and puzzled. vaccinations going down. looking at people getting the first shot. 425,000 a day about a month ago. now it has gone down to 171,000. even though it is abundantly clear. if you are not vaccinated, you are more vulnerable to get very sick from omicron versus if you are vaccinated. poppy. >> putting out there like little ones who cannot get the vaccine. elizabeth, thank you. john, talk about the president joining the call with the governors. this is a call that...

That link is very, very tight. what is happening now is were seeing a lot of infections in boosted people, in vaccinated people, that are not leading to hospitalizations, that are not leading to deaths, because vaccines work. the reason youre still seeing a hospitalization increase in a lot of those places is because 40% of americans are still not fully vaccinated. 80% of americans are not yet boosted. and not just overall, but we have like 7 million elderly americans who are not vaccinated at a...

Omicron versus delta, omicron versus the earlier variants, is omicron less severe both in vaccinated and unvaccinated people, or are unvaccinated people essentially open to this in a way that there isnt really mercy for them from the virus? >> yeah, so two things are going on. first of all, theres more breakthrough infections with omicron than there was with delta. so that means we have a bigger pool of vaccinated people getting infected. but there is no question about it that the levels of illn...

Has been anticipated. we saw evidence of that in europe as well. so this should not be a surprise and its pretty more clearly more contagious. in terms of severity. one question is, look at the total number of cases and determine what proportion of those people are getting severely ill, needing to be hospitalized. and there, the news appears to be better. early days, but if you look overall at the data, the proportion of people who end up in the hospital with omicron versus with previous variant...

How does that immunity that is developed from having had the infection match up against omicron versus, lets say, the delta variant or gamma or mu? >> so, we dont know that -- the answer to that specific question yet, but what we do know is that the -- the original premise for that supposition is just wrong. it simply isnt true that immunity conferred by infection is in general better than immunity conferred by vaccination. what we doe know is that immunity thats conferred by prior infection is ...

More vaccines to third world countries so something like this would not happen, but here we are. mike, matt, thank you both. appreciate it. i want to turn now to a doctor who is the chair of the south african medical association and is reportedly one of the first doctors to suspect a different variant among her patients in south africa. doctor, thank you for joining us. i know youre busy right now, but we appreciate all of your inside knowledge on this. we are just getting to know omicron. and...