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Dramatically. when is shot four coming and shot five and shot six? >> let me be clear on this scientifically. i want to reassure you there are two issues here. one is decreasing spread of the variant and that's where the mandates come in which i have issues with. the other is severity. how do you decrease your risk of going into the hospital? does your body have a memory of the vaccine that it kicks up when it sees the virus. you will have that for several weeks. the severity quotient works with the booster than breakthrough cases. you don't want a mild case, nobody does. i will take a mild ca...

"We really have to focus on hospitalizations and deaths now," Ashish K. Jha said Sunday, adding, "This is the shift we've been waiting for in many ways."

That is worse among the unvaccinated and is nearly, just as severe, as it was before. there's zero evolutionary pressure on this virus to become less virulent. we must continue to be vigilant, we must continue to reduce our risk of getting a high viral load in a given moment, and that means that we have to reduce our exposure when traveling and when we are in congregate settings for people whose vaccination status is mixed. this is a very serious virus and we're not taking it as seriously as we should. omicron is far more contagious than delta. that's why it's causing breakthrough cases. and p...

Reports." we begin this sunday, boxing day, with omicron wreaking havoc coast-to-coast. in just a week's time, 1.3 million americans testing positive for covid, an average of 190,000 new cases per day, the highest case average we've seen in a year. a silver lining, if there is one, new research from the uk signaling while the omicron variant is more transmissible, it produces milder symptoms, especially in breakthrough cases. but not for the unvaccinated. omicron is hitting those patients hard, overwhelming hospitals and stretching front line workers thin. case in point, new mexico. 50% of all...

Making the holiday travel a headache today. delta canceling 268 flights while united canceled 196 flights. jetblue canceled 120 of its flights. the airlines blame staffing shortages stemming from the omicron variant. they want the cdc to cut the isolation period in half for employees who develop breakthrough cases from ten days down to five. and countries across europe are tightening restrictions in response to that covid surge. the uk has set a new daily case record for a third day in a row. give us an update on the covid surge and how governments are responding. >> good morning, jessica. tha...