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And everybody studying and interpreting the data and trying to turn that around to educate the public. i see dr. walensky. she is a practicing physician. who is very, very well regarded in her field. who has the unglamorous job of having to be the point person if you will to communicate this information to the american public and when i listen to her on air and i understand some of the criticism she's got recently, i understand what she is saying and reading between the lines and understand how she is sort of coming to the way she is actually bringing the information to the public but if you'r...

Sick -- if an american gets sick with covid-19, they are able to help. we heard from federal health officials today that says the government has more treatments now than ever before in this pandemic. martha. >> martha: mark, thank you very much. let's bring in dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, so let me get right to it. do the treatments that the government is not allowing to be used in florida anymore, do they work against omicron? >> they work enough that they shouldn't be withdrawn. they work probably 30-40-50%. if you are facing a situation as a practicing physician as i am and dealing with a p...

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Physician, would you still have this viewpoint, this stand against the vaccine mandates? and when you talk to people in indiana in your home state who don't want to get vaccinated, what are those conversations like? >> yeah, i don't think my viewpoint was any different, you know, when i was a practicing physician, whether it's covid or other things that the federal government would mandate. i don't think my position really has changed. when i talk to people who don't want to get the vaccine they just have legitimate concerns about the safety profile of the vaccine even though i've tried to con...

I'm not pinning on either political party or either administration. you know, the confidence in the congress, for example, the house of representatives, which i'm a member, is extremely low overall primarily because we're at a stalemate. you know, we can't seem to talk to each other across the m political aisle and do some of the things we need to do for the american people, and there's a high level of frustration with that. so i would say overall the government in general, not this administration or the last particularly but government in general because we're kind of at a stalemate. and hone...