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Ship to your homes for free, today i'm directing my team to procure an additional half a -- an additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. a billion tests in total to meet future demand. >> what's says details on how to order those tests will come tomorrow and shipping will begin by the end of the it's an understatement, folks, to say a billion rapid tests can't come soon enough, although still far below last winter's peak, daily deaths are up 40%, they are increasing in about half of all u.s. states. with omicron sweeping across the country infections could be weeks away from pe...

But the israeli government sees this as something as a race against time to try to get as many of the fourth doses out as they can before the omicron wave peaks. that wave is a little bit behind the u.s. and the uk. other countries and israel's government says that is because of the very strict travel restrictions they put in place in november when omicron first emerged. all foreigners are banned from entering israel right now. the u.s., canada, turkey, other major countries are also on israel's travel red list which means travel is restricted. now, those restrictions have absolutely hammered ...

Three studies presented to our committee a year ago. so when pfizer did its 40,000-person study and moderna its 30,000-person studies, resip i did notes received their second dose. looking at protection against mild illness, it was 95% effective for those vaccines. that would never hold up because neutralizing antibodies fade, protection against mild illness fade, and the goal is protecting mild illness, we'll be giving frequent boosterings but that doesn't make a lot of sense. >> look, at least in our anecdotal world here locally in washington, d.c., it's a lot of teenagers that are getting t...

Day after day, they want to try to keep the country open, they want to try to keep schools as open as possible. we were just hearing from ellison about the situation in new york. relatively few israeli children are in remote learning right now. and the hope is that the booster shots will provide this wall that will protect the country from the wave of omicron. we're going to see what happens. israel put in place very strict travel restrictions when omicron first emerged in november. that actually does seem to have succeeded in slowing down the arrival of the wave. israel seems to be a couple o...

Just the innovation and courage to lead. join me. as we begin a new week, there is, thankfully, some good news to report about the direction we're headed when it comes to the omicron variant. there's been a lot of speculation about when it might peak here in the u.s. here are the facts. cases are down in the last week from more than 800,000 per day to more than 600,000. you can see on this map a cluster of dropping cases particularly in the northeast as well as a handful of other states where omicron first took hold in large population centers like new york. but importantly, hospitalizations...