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New variants that we're looking for three things, one is it more contagious, clearly it's more contagious, is it more virulent. omicron for people vaccinated or boosted is not causing severe disease. chances are you're going to be just fine with no or mild symptoms. the bad news is there immune escapes, do the treatments, the vaccines that we have still work against it. good that they work, but if you are vaccinated, if you are boosted, then i think this is the call for all of us to be -- to get those boosters, get those vaccines if you have not already. i want to say that testing remains a ma...

Average of deaths are about 1,200 per day, which is an increase of 3.5% over the prior week. over the past several weeks, cdc has continued to closely monitor the emergence of the omicron variant. currently over 85 countries have detected omicron and on monday we released updated data for the united states, which estimates that the omicron variant represents approximately 73% of covid-19 cases in the united states. and in some areas of the country, omicron has increased even further. accounting for an estimated 90% of cases in the eastern atlantic states, parts of the midwest, south, and north...

Pandemic. that is stunning, especially given that not enough, but a number of people are fully v vaccinated and boosted. >> i think what we will see with omicron is a very large number of infections due to covid-19. the question, though, is are we going to see a decoupling of infections with hospitalizations and death. that would be ideal, the entire point of vaccination, the main point of vaccination, i should say is to reduce severe illness. if we're able to avoid overwhelming our health care systems, that would be the goal. are there going to be a lot of people who get omicron? absolutely. ...

You both. wishing you a healthy and happy holiday. >> like wise, thank you. in the wake of a major setback for democrats on their campaign to get build back better passed, actually, let's go here. this is the white house covid task force briefing. let's listen in. >> i want to underscore the president's message yesterday. due to omicron, we expect a significant rise in cases. fully vaccinated people, particularly those with a boost are highly protected. but due to omicron's highly transmissible nature, we will see fully vaccinated people get covid. they'll likely be asymptomatic or feel unde...

Me is the fact that even though omicron is not as deadly, it appears to be. they also said because of its contagious factor, it can easily overwhelm our health care system. let's say that 5% of delta, 100 people went to the hospital, but if omicron infects a thousand people and 1% get infected, ten will go to the hospital. it can still very easily just overwhelm our health care system. >> and dr. wen, good news from the administration talking about pfizer's pill to treeat covid that got emergency authorization today, pacxlovid, the federal government will provide any resources to ramp up produ...