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Months up to 5 years of age. the ceo says he believes children of the age group will need three doses of the vaccine, that its best to begin getting the first two doses while the company waits for data on the third dose. do you agree with that? >> i think whats happening, anderson, with this omicron wave, theres been so many cases that allows you to get a signal whether these vaccines are working and confirm that theyre safe. so, i think whats happened with this omicron wave, theres enough confi...

Much higher. but hes saying that is the peak of the omicron wave, and now infections will start going down. he estimates that at the end of this wave, one in two israelis, about 50% of the population will have been infected with omicron. but the serious cases, the hospitalized cases are rising. israel has now passed more than 1,000 people who are hospitalized in serious condition. it is approaching the record that was set almost exactly a year ago, when 1,175 people were hospitalized in serious ...

That allows you to get a signal whether these vaccines are working and confirm that theyre safe. so, i think whats happened with this omicron wave, theres enough confidence in the data to move forward and put it in front of the committee and the acip to see if they agree that two doses is giving sufficient protection to move forward with the expectation that it would improve even more with the third dose. so, its a little bit unconventional, but it may make sense if theres sufficient data to giv...

He does bleach that israel has passed the peak of this omicron wave. likely that peak was last week when in one day over 76,000 cases were notched. keep in mind, that doesnt include all of the home tests that more and more people are starting to do. so he does believe that the infection rate is starting to go down and the peak has passed in israel for the omicron wave. professor siegel estimates at the end of this wave, 1 in 2 israelis, pretty much 50% of israelis, will have been infected with o...

It was as though no one saw this crisis. we talked about assault rifles but we never talked about the handguns that was really carving highways of death in the communities of color across america. this president has taken a different direction. he took his spotlight and he stated that were going to look at this gun violence and were not going to allow it to continue. >> president biden told mayor adams that he can consider himself a surge. >> job reporting in a few hours. it comes as a shock and...

Yeah, lura, first of all, that is all modeling. they dont know that for sure.ha this these monoclonals are highly effective againsty the delta variant to keep peoplele out of hospitals. we havepi been using themta with patients coming in during the omicron wave and we have a seen success anecdotally. no, we havent run a clinical trial, but neither didbu the fda relying on one study which is an observational study. n it was not a clinical trial. it was not peer reviewed that said, the two monoclo...

Families and campaigners have been saying that that did huge damage. whilst the increasing restrictions during the omicron wave were not as drastic as that, you are still allowed four name to people including an essential caregiver. nevertheless, it was an interruption to family life and families felt very strongly that this was having a really deleterious effect on the health and well—being of the people they loved. health and well-being of the people the loved. ., , ., health and well-being ...

He just wrote a piece for the new york magazine saying how places like fox news have made the omicron wave so much worse. -- eric, what is your basic argument here about what we are seeing? particularly, during this omicron wave. >> yeah, well, i think that one analogy here, as you just showed, tucker carlson is on a nightly basis, propagating an ideology that is getting thousands of americans covid a day. i think its a bit like if you are broadcasting a pro al-qaeda propaganda on september 11th...

>> im willing to walk out the door and they can come and sit in here and see what it is like. >> reporter: ron is back home and slowly recovering but his son has been hospitalized for 71 days with double pneumonia and covid. >> whats the lesson we should learn from what your family has been through? >> i think appreciate family. tell them you love them. hug them. the times are short. >> reporter: he is hopeful his son will be home soon, too. >> nbcs kate snow reporting for us there. lets bring...

The literally life saving coronavirus vaccine. >> in these highly vaccinated and highly boosted countries, rates of infection are incredibly high and rates of serious disease and death are also rising. the mrna covid vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market now. no one should get them. no one should get boosted. no one should get double boosted. they are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point against omicron. we are in a dangerous moment and these products need to be withdrawn. >...