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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 ori...

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 no...

>> 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. >> y...

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 alr...