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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 ....