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Med school strongly suggest that once again the teachers unions and the public health officials were wrong. the findings suggest that social distancing and isolation at a population level, particularly from young children may have counterintuitively put some people at greater risk of covid infection or severe disease once they resumed normal contact. well, none of this was counterintuitive to the angles medicine cabinet, you may remember. now, they didnt listen and the damage is done. now, to ch...

And the cdc is encouraging masking to prevent the spread of the viruses. joining me now is dr. vin gupta. doctor, thankfully rsv cases appear to be declining but we still have covid. the flu has been brutal. do you agree its time to return to masking? >> lindsey, good morning. i do agree. and this is one of those temporary necessities that we have to adopt and accept in this era that we live in of respiratory epidemics and pandemics, this is the times we live in. masking at the population level ...

Much. dr. we kn, how concerned are yo about this triple threat of the flu, rsv and covid-19? what is your advice for people? this is the time of year where people want to get together to celebrate the holidays. >> on a population level, i am concerned about this triple dem threat because there are people coming in to hospitals for these virus illnesses, but also car wrecks and heart attacks, et cetera. for people who are immune compromised they are at much higher risk. in terms of what people sh...

Boomerang effect. dr. anthony fauci caused him to get another case of covid that was more severe. joining me now is dr. marty makary, professor at the john hopkins school of medicine and author of "the price we pay." would you make of the white houses handling of this especially this relentless push of paxlovid? >> pfizers getting a free commercial. its been given off label the majority of the citizens in the united states. its a nonimmune people, people with known immune systems but given to a ...

I cant tell you what the worst case scenario here is. is it going to be 20%? is it going to be 50%? is it going to be more of the colony on the bass rock? because we are literally in a situation we have never experienced before. first detected in shetland, this unprecedented summer breeding season outbreak is spreading further every day. the risk to human health is low, but people are being warned not to touch dead and dying birds, and experts are calling for a national surveillance programme an...

Get vaccinated. you should still get your child vaccinated. that hybrid immunity, the infection plus a vaccination, that provides the strongest level and the most durable level of protection. >> its going to be interesting to see how many parents actually get their young children vaccinated. i mean, is it enough to actually change the trajectory of the virus or are the numbers really small? >> i think the numbers are going to be low from a population standpoint because when we look at 5 to 11 ye...

I mean, is it enough to actually change the trajectory of the virus or are the numbers really small? >> i think the numbers are going to be low from a population standpoint because when we look at 5 to 11 year olds, less than 30% are fully vaccinated. thats really low. and i think the uptake may be even lower for this younger age group. i dont think its going to do much when it comes to stopping the virus from spreading on a population level. but i think still this is an important milestone psyc...

The dr. administration, and the new ashish, the new white house covid coordinator, white house covid have both play down the coordinator, theyve importance of covid played town the cases importance of covid. they say that cases, is not what matters. case numbers, it is hospitalizations they say, thats not and deaths. you what matters is, on hospitalizations and death. thursday, you with the way things are sort of tweeted, because im not sure. whats the right answer but you know that it cannot be...

Contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary— contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government diktats. it arbitrary government diktats. it will— arbitrary government diktats. it will make you a slave! he said _ it will make you a slave! he said some much more offensive things on the stage during that speech. its a shame to see some of the things he says, actually, when he belongs to that american family thatis he belongs to that american family that is so revered in america. and what h...

Or a negative test result will be required. —— although proof of vaccination. the latest survey suggests there were just under 3 million people who had a virus in the uk last week. that was down although falling at a slower rate than before. in england, where one in 20 had a virus, wales one in 30 and scotland one in 30, case rates were lower but in northern ireland, with one in 20, the trend was said to be uncertain. at the population level, things are looking much better than they were a f...