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Researchers at King's College London found the odds of developing long COVID after infection were 20% to 50% lower during the omicron wave in the UK compared to delta.

Months in the delta wave, even though the delta variant tedded to cause more severe illness. what does that tell us? what is the message for people 65 and older, with underlying conditions, about where this pandemic is right now and what they should be doing? >> certainly that it is not over. what they should be doing is the same things from back in march 2020, wear those masks, socially distancing. we know the variants have learned to trick our immune system, and again we, as people, we are no longer playing our role in mitigating the spread. it's not just to older persons. we need to look at...

Of 2021 but by that point some 500,000 people in america had already died of covid. but vaccine resistance was already dividing us along partisan lines and when the next wave hit in the late summer of 2021 you can see that vast majority of deaths came from counties that voted most heavily for donald trump. that's because those count had much lower levels of vaccination. here is a devastating stat during the delta wave in the fall of 2021 death rates in low vaccination counties were about six times as high compared to counties where 70% or more people were vaccinated. in february of this year a...

There's a real world cost to all those lives. covid demonstrated the disinformation and misinformation can be deadly. don't believe me? well, let's dig into the data. in the early days of the pandemic, deaths were concentrated in urban areas, primarily in blue states as this graph shows. there were no vaccines available. but by that fall, death rates in more rural red counties leapt ahead. you can see the sharp dropoff when vaccines became widely available in february and march of 2021. by that point some 500,000 people in america had already died of covid. but vaccine resistance was already d...

He is calling on other world leaders to match that effort. >> dr. gupta, there's a gap between the resources we have now and apparently what we need considering the white house warns as many as 100 million americans could be infected by fall and winter. based on your experience on the front lines of the pandemic, what do you want to see from the white house and the summit? >> good morning, and it's good to be with you. this is a classic case where we're only as safe as our least resource country is in the world, and the omicron and delta wave, they are showing us the least resourced countries ...