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We do appreciate it? thank you. we do victim some good news to bring you this morning in the fight against covid-19. some states are starting to see infection numbers and hospitalizations drop. of course, that s not the case all over the map. take a look at this. out west, covid hospitalizations are up 15% this past week. it increased in the south. hospitals say they re stretched so thin from the surge in patients and ongoing staffing shortages they are facing as well. cnn has the latest on this and why getting a covid-19 booster shot is so important right flouchlt a t. reporter: a trio of booster shoots needed to fight off the variant. according to cdc it was 90% effective preventing hospitalizations in december and january compared to 57% those ....
Olds for five months after their last first dose. david leonhardt and ashley woo write, quote, omicron is cocontagious it will have infected a meaningful share of the population, increasing the amount of covid immunity and helping defang the virus. omicron has helped americans focus on the importance of booster shoots. the world has more weapons to fight the virus than it did two weeks ago. all of which suggest that the u.s. could emerge from the omicron wave significantly closer to the long-term future of covid one wren wherein it becomes an endemic disease. ginning nows dr. vin gupta. claire is still here. doctor, there has been a real ....
reporter: yeah. here s the problem, alex. even in a place that s done things largely by the book, like santa clara county where i am, they are struggling to stay ahead of the kurn or get ahead of the curve i should say on the issue of booster shots. vaccination sites like this one are plenty busy, but have catching up to do. yes, 80% of this county s residents are fully vaccinated. impressive. only about a third of them have gotten booster shoots. a little deceiving, because some people only recently became eligible. some aren t eligible, but nationwide, the number is fewer than 20%, and, again, we know now, at least from the preliminary data, how much more effective the booster shots are against omicron than just the one or two doses, and so the message from officials here is clear. get those booster shots. we ve seen, already, when they put up the antibodies produced for somebody that s only had two shots. ....
Get their booster shoots. six mountains after pfizer and moderna, or two months after the johnson & johnson shot. pfizer and mrna, there are categories who can get it. for johnson & johnson, anybody who got it two months or more ago they can get it. it is going to protect them from all types of illnesses at least to the 95% level that we have seen. and to keep it from pushing it out to other people, basically not spreading the coronavirus. until we get unvaccinated to get vaccinated in the first case, that s still a long haul, an uphill battle to get the pandemic under control. it brings me to this. in terms of mandates how far can they go if you have people who are not willing to comply and they would rather lose their jobs before getting vaccinated. i think they can go a long ways. i am going historically off of what happened in the past with public health issues. i am dating myself a little bit but back in the day when we get ....