Find, elizabeth? alex, i m going to cut to the chase. i m so glad you re getting the booster. all of us should get that booster, even with the news i m about to tell you. we know there s this new booster, it s supposed to cover the original covid as well as the new omicron version of covid. what the folks at harvard and columbia labs did said does this new one work any better against the variants out there, is this new one any better than the old covid booster that people have been getting for years at this point? they put it to the test. the results from the harvard lab. they found the original booster, the one that people have been getting for years now, it boosted antibodies 15 times. the new booster boosted antibodies 17 times. they said that s not much of a difference, not statistic. so they found it didn t matter which one you got. i will note the harvard lab they
To be part of the administration s covid response team. so, i think you have the inside track in hearing what is thought of. what was behind the decision, do you think, to try to extend it several more weeks? i think it was in part the you know, the variant of the omicron variant and the and also thinking about the hospital capacity rates. was that part of the logic? that s exactly the logic. you know, i think that by may 3rd, which is the date this was set to expire, we will have enough data on this potential ba.2 wave. this is the latest omicron version. to really know whether or not what it s going to amount to. and that time is very useful to the cdc, who made the decision based upon data and science and wants to do it with great care. you know, the airlines, which i think have been out saying publicly how much they care about our safety and our health and so forth, didn t wait very long, didn t wait but minutes to say that they were going to not allow they re not requiring
it is not such a small number. it is large enough many hospitals are already overwhelmed and the prospects for the next few weeks are not good. we are going to just see a rise in the omicron version, more delta around as well. we are far from done with the current surge, ali. what do we do about it? what is the real practical application of straining the health care system this way. on a personal level, if one needs some type of emergency treatment and shows up at a hospital and gets into an ambulance but the icu beds are taken up by people suffering from covid, that will affect us. yeah. right. i visited a hospital in new york city last week. here is what we found. one full floor of covid patients, mostly people that were unvaxed. some were vaxed. the icu floor had covid
Doctor irwin redlener, it s good to see you. we ve known each other for a long time. i m not a man of science, i m amanda members. and right now the numbers speak for themselves. people are getting multi versions of this virus but they are not that worried about it. and, yet we have 1 million new cases in the last 24 hours, which tells you that even if a small number of those people are hospitalized we are putting pressure on the medical system that we can t help and handle. the thing is it is not actually such a small number. it s a large enough number, in fact, that many hospitals are already overwhelmed. and the prospects for the next few weeks are not good. we are just going to keep seeing a rise in the omicron version. more delta is still around as well but we are far from done with this current surge, ali. what do we do about it? what is the real practical application of straining the health care system this way. i think about it on a personal level. if one needs some kind of
Coming, clay. thanks for having me, pete. and i wanted to, again, by apologizing to the l.a. times and to cnn for not dying as an unvaccinated american and making them so sad that they can t mock and ridded kuehl my death and the resulting i would like to think disappointment from my wife and certainly from my three kids. i know that they would be disappointed. look, i have had covid twice. i had covid the alpha version back in november of 2020, and i just recovered last week from what i presume was the omicron version that everyone is testing positive for right now. i had natural immunity for a long time. i have another form of natural immunity. i was not very sick. i looked at the data. i did not believe that i needed to get the covid vaccine. i still don t believe that i need to get the covid vaccine. that s a reasonable risk analysis, i believe, by me, dr. marty makary can tell me whether or not he thinks i m making an imbecile denies ic
Along with fox news contributor leo to point throw. you re looking healthy, clay.t that means i m assuming that covid is over and you re feeling better. yeah. thanks for asking, sean. i m tuno against covid. i had it in november of 2020. beat it and now i think i had the omicron version last week 100% back ready to roll and to tee off a year on the absurdity of all the things that you just laid out. here s the big story sean.he here is what is going on . i bet leo is going to agree with this too. and i love the leo to pointnt ot having to get one myself. here s the deal. all right.cr the democrats managed evenmi in the middle even in the middle of using covid to dragg joe biden from his basement across the finish line in theto electoral college. if you go look at the tally of votes that are out there, sean. twenty thousand votes20 in wisconsin. ten thousand votes in georgia. ten thousand votes in arizona. 10if twenty thousand peoplege change their mind in this
Looking healthy, that means i m assuming that covid is over and you re feeling better? is, thank you for asking paradigm 2-0 against covid i ha it in november of 2020 and now think i had the micron version last week i am 100 percent back and ready to roll, to tee off here on the absurdity of all th things you just laid out, here is the big story here is what i going on. here is the deal, the democrats managed, even in the middle, even in the middle of using covid to drag joe biden from hi basement across the finish line and the electoral college, if you will look at the tally of votes that are out there, 20,00 votes in wisconsin, 10,000 vote in georgia, 10,000 votes in arizona, if 20,000 people chang their mind in this country out
Australia, in this country that initially adopted a covid-zero policy. and the politicians there need to find someone who is a convenient scapegoat to take away from the attention from from the skyrocketing cases. and i believe that djokovic ended up being that scapegoat because as long as everybody was focused on the national drama of whether he was going to be able to play in australia or not, they didn t have to the acknowledge that every single day australia has been setting all-time highs in new can covid cases, and they didn t have to acknowledge here locally in our country the fact that anthony fauci has pointed out that everyone, including me right now, by the way, is going to get the omicron version of covid that is sweeping across the nation whether they are vaccinated or unvaccinated. geffen the fact that joke vim recently djokovic recently had covid, he poses no danger whatsoever to the larger australian populace. and so this, to me, was about
Maybe still surging and leveling off. it s going to be a little bit more painful for them because those are the of the country, which for the most part are unvaccinated or less vaccinated. i m going to be cautiously optimistic about this, that the trend is starting to come down and will alternately, as i m net effect, come down for the whole country. just as the nation s top exit delivers optimism. a new version of the omicron variant emerges. this is variant is blamed for the latest outbreaks in south are in europe and asia. some experts are urging americans not to panic yet. it does appear to be more contagious. it is spreading in places that the old omicron version has become friendly. is it more dangerous of a strain? it does not appear to be a
Unvaccinated or less vaccinated. i m going to be cautiously optimistic about this, that the trend is starting to come down and will alternately, as i m net effect, come down for the whole country. just as the nation s top infectious disease of spurt delivers optimism. a new version of the omicron variant emerges. this is variant is blamed for the latest outbreaks in south are in europe and asia. some experts are urging americans not to panic yet. it does appear to be more contagious. it is spreading in places that the old omicron version has become friendly. or prevalence. is it more dangerous of a strain? it does not appear to be a case. as sweden suggested, it is not causing more severe illness than we ve seen previously. back with us tonight, dr.