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But it's decreased compared to what it was before. >> all right, this is a good one. how long do boosters last, and if you are vaccinated, can you still spread omicron more easily than someone who is not vaccinated? >> yeah, so, with omicron, we're trying to understand exactly how infectious it is, and it still looks like vaccinated people, yes, can infect others. unvaccinated individuals do seem to have higher loads of viruses in their upper airways, so yes, unvaccinated people can infect others more quickly and more efficiently, but vaccinated individuals and that's why i think we're seeing ...

Hr-1 because -- unless they federalize these elections they're going to win 100 seats. internally, they got it. they understand. they can't show economic -- they can't show economics, the country's being invaded on the southern border. it's a complete catastrophe, about to shut down the whole country because they weren't prepared for omicron and lied about it. the only thing they got is they got to grab the apparatus at a federal level and steal the elections. i understand what they're doing. if i was those guys, 100%, that's how i'd be working on it. if you've got no other shot, all your othe...

Turning over documents as both seeds wait to see if the supreme court will weigh in on whether the former president can keep his records from seeing the light of day. and tributes continuing to pour in for betty white, the national treasure passing away just short of her 100th birthday. a look at her life and career ahead. we do, though, want to begin with the coronavirus pandemic, testing facilities nationwide swamped by crowds waiting for covid tests as omicron continues its rapid sweep across the united states with more than 360,000 cases reported on the final day of 2021. the situation...

Rates? >> that's a very good point. and we are really moving in that direction. it becomes even more relevant when you're dealing -- and we hope, as you mentioned early on, one of the positive encouraging things is that it appears that omicron, from data both in south africa, the uk, and accumulating data here in the united states, indicates that it very well might not be as severe. and many people, from studies that are going on right now, who get omicron have either no symptoms or minimally symptomatic. so you get down to the core issue of what are we trying to do, what are we trying to prev...

Infections. with new cases drawing less of a curve and more of a straight vertical line. new cases in the last two weeks are up by 126%. the world health organization said today they're anticipating a, quote, tsunami of new cases worldwide over the next few weeks. so far, thankfully, we have not seen a tsunami of new hospitalizations and deaths along with the spread of omicron. the hospitalization rate is in fact up over the last two weeks but only by 11%, much below the rate of new infections. daily deaths remain essentially flat. now, today the head of the cdc stressed that that might be a g...