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Ones with— and more severe viruses ranging from ones with 100% mortality, like rabies. — ones with 100% mortality, like rabies, down to ones with essentially zero mortality. you could — essentially zero mortality. you could have a move on that. the other way which _ could have a move on that. the other way which is — could have a move on that. the other way which is much more common when something _ way which is much more common when something becomes more severe, because _ something becomes more severe, because we have more immunity point of the _ because we have more immunity point o...

Even getting something more serious. >> how much difference does the booster make in that protection level? >> it doubles it. so you're about -- you get about 40% protection from two shots. now, one shot is roughly the equivalent to having prior -- having had a prior infection. and unfortunately, there is very little protection offered for prior infection. so the good news is if we science our way there, if americans get boosted, we're in good shape. the bad news is that as of today, only 14% of all americans have gotten boosted. so that offers very little population protection and if things d...

Population, the patterns of vaccination in the u.k. and denmark are quite similar to what we see in the united states. there is no reason for us to think that our case patterns will not follow what they're seeing. the big question, the thing we're all waiting on with baited breath is what happens to hospitalizations in those countries? we know hospitalizations usually spike somewhere between one and three weeks after a case is discovered. so we're watching to see how bad hospitalizations get in european countries because i will tell you that here in the u.s., we can't take much more on top of ...

Where are we now in the pandemic? i'm joined now by melissa nolan, assistant professor of epidemiology at the university of south carolina. wonderful to have you on the program. i imagine, many in the audience are wondering the same thing as i am, we've been through the delta wave, where are now at the beginning of the omicron variant, are we going to see similar rates of infection, that kind of wave in countries across the world? thank ou for countries across the world? thank you for having _ countries across the world? thank you for having me, _ countries across the world? thank you for havi...