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Dr. anthony fauci sounding optimistic about where the nation stands on the coronavirus. fauci says the worse may be over with the omicron variant. >> we can't predict whether or not another variant is going to come from someplace else. remember, delta came from india. omicron came from africa. if we are staying with the virus we have now, we can feel comfortable that as we go out there's enough background immunity in the population, either from people who have been infected or people who have been vaccinated and boosted, that it is unlikely that you're going to see a big surge in hospitalizati...

I mean, russia's tracking in terms of its vaccination rate, it's lagging many of the other nations, you know, compared to europe and united states, let's say, according to the government figures released at the beginning of december, you have only 60 million who are double vaccinated. 69 million who have had their first vaccination. that's barely 40% of the population. the government says the sort of background immunity, if you will, is about 50%. so, you can see there's a huge challenge ahead. the loss of life has been significant. president putin offered his condolences and support for those...

The future? >> you know, we don't know. i would have to be perfectly honest to you. you can surmise, you can project and guess, but we don't know. what likely happens, when you have waves of this, that after a while, there's enough background immunity, either from infection plus boost, or vaccine plus boost, or just plane infection and recover from infection. when you put it all together, you could have a degree of immunity in the community such that even if new variants emerge, they don't take that surge effect that we've seen, with the four, now five surges that we've seen since the early 20...

Pandemic, and we have been having our vaccinations every year since then. so it really is a totally different story than it was in 2009. >> so doctor, break this down for me a little bit. back in 2009, the h1n1 was new and now it's not so new and you know how to deal with it and that's why it's not going to be as big a problem? >> yes, there are two reasons. first, you remember in 2009, by the time we got the vaccine available for individuals throughout the country, the pandemic had already peaked. right now, the vaccine has contained the 2009 h1n1 in it for the last several years. but also im...