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Grim covid milestone today. almost two years after covid-19 first appeared, the u.s. has passed 800,000 deaths from the virus. that's more than be population of washington d.c. and it's more confirmed covid deaths than any other country in the world. the u.s. hit this milestone as the uk announced the first death worldwide from the omicron variant earlier this morning. it comes as the prime minister told the uk yesterday that they're preparing to face a, quote, tidal wave of omicron. and a new study out of oxford shows people with two doses of the vaccine have lower protection against the omic...

Believe, when we talk about boosters, when you get a level high enough that you will get some degree of process protection, particularly against severe disease. these are estimates and with a small number of cases it is very difficult to know whether or not this particular variant will result in severe disease. some preliminary investigations suggest that we don't know and ta it is too early to tell. how do we address omicron. we said it over and over again. if you're not vaccinated, get vaccinated. get boosted if you are vaccinated. continue to use mitigation methods. choose outdoors rather t...