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You that here in the u.s., we can't take much more on top of the current delta wave. >> yeah. you're right about that. according to a leaked source, today alone the nfl saw 37 positive covid cases among players. on december 2nd, the nfl said 94.4% of its players were vaccinated along with 100% of the other nfl personnel. what does today's news say to you? >> so it's two things. the first is that even a small number of folks who are unvaccinated still put the rest of us at risk. but the other important thing about this statistic that we have yet to kind of follow through is that most likely, mo...

Effectiveness, vaccine effectiveness, even against getting even a mild case of the disease, and much much better even then getting something more serious. >> how much difference does the booster make in that protection level? >> it doubles it. so you are 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 are in good shape. the bad news is that as of tod...

Thought to underestimate this virus at our peril. even if omicron does cause less severe deaths, the number of cases could overwhelm unprepared health systems. that's the view form the who. meanwhile, new research from south africa where omicron was first identified suggests the pfizer vaccine could still provide good protection against serious illness. the study looked at 200,000 cases recorded starting in mid—november, just before the omicron wave began — looking at how much protection two doses of the pfizer vaccine provided — compared to earlier waves of the virus. in the delta wave ...

This country of serious problems of covid. a group of doctors pleading with residents to get the vaccines because so many emergency rooms have become overrrun again. what is your snapshot of where we are knowing it's different from state to state and region to region largely because of vaccination rates and those places. what can we say where we are? >> well, look, prevalent right now, 36 cases a day. jeerm germany is at 50. the delta wave concentrated in regions of the country where delta has not yet coursed its way through. the states around the great lakes, minnesota and wisconsin and michi...

Peeking right now. we are seeing more cases as people are gathering for the holidays. many parts of the country, southeast and southwest and pacific northwest and mountains and plain states which we are having a pandemic as early as a month ago. the southeast right now, prevalent is way down to 7 or 8 cases. that's a very low level. the risk is on the back end of this delta wave, we expect this to be the last major wave of infection, that prevalent will come down because people having so much immunity. the risk right now to that narrative is omicron starts to sweep across the country as this d...