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Ever happened and if you emerge from your constant state of terror, run back to it. that is telling you about the omicron variant. hospitalization rates are nine times lower than previous trains. deaths are negligible. why are people panicked? heather mcdonald has thought about this deeply. she has a brand-new piece on it in the spectator. heather, thanks so much for coming on. why are people so afraid of an illness that objectively speaking probably shouldn't terrify people? >> i have been so depressed by the media, i'm calling everything covid. because the media has perfected a set of strate...

Think about relying on those policies around masking, testing, increasing vaccinations, to get those case levels under control right now. >> you're talking about two to three weeks as a lagging indicator for the number of hospitalizations, dr. blackstock. have we gotten to two to three weeks? it feels like we've been dealing with this for some time. we announced it or learned of it back on thanksgiving, announced the first few cases here in the united states, just a few days later. >> right, so those are the first few cases. but now we're hitting case numbers of hundreds of thousands a day. no...

Exemption to compete in the australia open in melbourne despite his opposition to vaccines, which are a requirement to compete in the tournament. melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in 2021. fans have taken to social media calling the decision a disgrace and calling for a boycott of the australian open. >> yeah. a lot of people upset in australia asking, why him? why him? they have been locked down, they have been behaving, so why does djokovic get to bend the rules? brooklyn nets point guard, kyrie irving, will finally suit up again after his refusal to get vaccinated kept him o...

Is far better when it comes to the variant of this transmission, john. >> let's bring in our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, we're at an interesting moment, if you will, in the sense that you do see in the data evidence that omicron is less severe in terms of how sick you get. but with the case count so high, there are still the challenges on the health care system. i want to look at numbers out of california. california hospitalizations, 52,000 people, omicron cases, come in. only 235 of those patients, if we can put up the graphic to help people get through it, only...

Vaccine has kept them from being more deadly and more dangerous. that is a fact. it is borne out by. so of the data. and that's why as the case count breaks all time records, the death rate is lower. and then we have the unvaccinated bearing the brunt of this. the president at one point saying it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated by the end of the year. with all that in mind, i want to play something incorrect but i want to play it so you can give us the medical view. we don't need to disparage everyone. this is from a united states senator, senator johnson. one might home that he would know ...