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>> dr. fauci's message was clearly, please, go out and get vaccinated. vaccinations are up, if you look at the numbers, but most of these are boosters. what is more important right now with the dual threat if you have delta or omicron? is it to get those who are vaccinated a booster shot, and as you noted, shrink the wait period for that, or to get the completely unvaccinated to get a shot? >> i'm not sure if we can place importance on one thing over the other. when it comes to fighting covid and combatting this pandemic, all the different things, vaccines, boosters, masks, social distancing, ...

States within a month of being discovered. there is still a lot about omicron we just don't know. >> if you come through, if you look at cases in the united states right now, we're just around 120,000 cases, 119,888. back on november 14, that was 80,000, so it's up 60% since last month and most of this is delta. are you worried that as omicron starts to double as we have seen in south africa, as we've seen in london quickly, that this number will go even higher as we go more into winter? >> absolutely. when delta emerged, it was the most transmissible variant we had seen to date and omicron is...

Week was 0.4% cases. as the cases climb and the holidays collide with covid exha exhaustion. >> we are in a war now between the delta variant and omicron variant as to who will become king of the hill. >> how quickly is the virus doubling in terms of its proportion? with delta, it was doubling every couple weeks, this seems to be doubling every few days. it's pretty clearly more transmissible. >> there is a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast-moving epidemic here in the united states, and i think we have to take it very seriously. >> we're going to try to curtail the spread of omicron ...

Vaccine or two months after the johnson & johnson to get a booster. that's one issue. the other part we're not looking at is although the boosters and vaccines may protect against disease, they do that at a less efficacious rate than the prior variants. when we have a higher caseload, even though less people are becoming ill, when the numbers start to spike, that still causes a strain in the health system. >> three out of four teams have had to postpone games because of covid. cornell one of four college campuses saying they're going to partially shift things online. omicron is only 3% of the ...

>> dr. rechita mccain is here. doctor, i want to make a point. delta is driving the case surge right now, and they say, why are we so obsessed about omicron? there was 0.4% a week ago, now there's almost 3%. by sunday it was 43,33, then moy it was 44%, now 50%. are you okay with just getting a booster, or do we need a vaccine? >> the problem there is not everybody is eligible for a booster. you have to wait for six months after the pfizer or moderna