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Committee tuesday, officials were grilled on the same day that the u.s. hit record hospitalizations. acting head of the fda janet w woodcock said the priority is making sure hospitals can still function, adding this stark assessment. i think it s hard to process what s actually happening right now, which is most people are going to get covid. another major topic, masking, with omicron s high transmissibility, officials say it s time to upgrade your mask. a point dr. anthony fauci echoed on cnn last night. i recommend that you get the highest quality mask that you can tolerate and that s available to you. right now it doesn t seem to be any shortage of the masks that sometime ago were not available. if you can tolerate an n95, do it. so, we should be wearing the best possible masks that we can get. that s a fact. cnn s elizabeth cohen reports for us this morning. ....
Perspective, it seems worse than ever. i have a broad question for you, but what the hex is going on here? number one, it s calling waning immunity. so that s the first thing that s happening is we re seeing, even though many of the leagues as you re well aware have required their players to be vaccinated and the compliance is quite high. we have now 50% at best immunity if you ve had two shots. now, we are not seeing a lot of the leagues prior to this pushing boosters which was what was needed to get them to a point dr. they re not infected. second of all, premier league across the uk and europe, is omicron. and we know omicron is just dodging the immunity with two shots where you re down to zero to 20%. that s the very first thing. the second thing is, hey, it s the holidays. i m sure people are getting together and, you know, that s ....
Link the vaccine to random celebrities deaths to try to scare people with propaganda out of getting vaccinated. that s why you can t get news, let alone medical advice from random anonymous lawyers on facebook, which is a point dr. fauci has made countless times as we go through this epidemic together. it s also echoed in a wise question from the poet aubrey graham how can anybody tell you the truth when they misinformed? to quote another line i know the question rhetorical, because this is a rhetorical question. that guy there can t tell you the truth, because liars can never tell you the truth. let s bring in our experts, former prosecutor mile wiley, and pulitzer prizewinning journalist eugene. maya, your thoughts? ....
Because of breakthrough infections, not because people s immunity is waning. hospitals are filling up and people are dying because they have not been vaccinated or vaccinated fully. yeah. uh-huh. absolutely. i mean, it it it s pretty it s not even close, right? i mean, if you go to hospitals, around 95% of the covid patients there are unvaccinated. let let me show you. another point dr. frieden is making. if you look at israel which we have done from, you know, throughout this pandemic. they are a bit ahead of us in terms of vaccination. some 65% of the country. they have been boosting since august, anderson, and they have some of the i highest coronavirus case counts that they have ever had throughout this entire pandemic right now. now, hospitalizations and and deaths have not been as proportionally high which is good. that s the that s the focus of the vaccines. but remember this. you know, even with high vaccinations and even some boosting, they still have high cases. ....
We want to recommend what s best for everyone, but there isn t nearly enough vaccine for the world. that has nothing to do with the decision of the fda committee not to recommend this for healthy people between the ages of 16 and 65, but it is relevant for our ability to stop this pandemic from continuing to rule the world, which is what s going to happen until we ramp up vaccinations, not just in this country but globally also. sanjay, i think that s a really important point that he just made. i want to reiterate that. hospitals are filling up not because of breakthrough infections, not because people s immunity is waning. hospitals are filling up and people are dying because they ever not been vaccinated or vaccinated fully. uh-huh. absolutely. it s it s not even close, right? if you go to hospitals, around 95% of the covid patients there are unvaccinated. let me show you as well another point dr. frieden is making. if you look at israel as we have ....