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Dr. davidson, you still there? so the question i wanted to ask was in the sense of what we're seeing with children right now, obviously we're seeing numbers we haven't seen before. the biggest concern is for kids who aren't vaccinated or eligible to get vaccinated. what are the numbers you're seeing in pediatric admissions telling you about this variant? we just lost him again. we'll see if we can swing back in a little bit. obviously this story isn't going away anytime soon. we will see whether dr. rob davidson can come back. but in the meantime, the surge of the highly contagious omicron var...

Listen to this, more than 2,000 americans, a day, are still dying from covid. he health experts believe this surge may be nearing its peak. >> cases are still sky high but they are going down. last monday the u.s. has adding more than 800,000 new cases a day. now it's under 700,000. anthony fauci told us it's possible we could have covid under control in a matter of weeks. >> the best case scenario is that in matter of several weeks to a month or so we'll continue to come down and down and then with all the things that we have, all the tools, vaccine, booster testing, masking, we'll be able to...

There and how likely is it that stuff that dr. fauci listed there is actually going to happen since we haven't seen enough of it thus far? >> dr. davidson, can you hear us? >> i don't know. i wish i had this optimism. maybe on the coast, that's true. can you hear me? >> yeah. go ahead. >> hello? i hope that's true. on the coast it is probably true. a lot of people are vaccinated where i'm at. but still less than 50% -- [ inaudible ] die in our icu. vaccinated and refused to go on a ventilator. they were told that these things would harm them rather than this virus harming them. and i don't kno...

>> you know, i think that's probably being overplayed that people are over it. people are fatigued, they're tired of it and certain aspects of it. the folks i know that are just trying to get by would happily say i'll wear masks for another six months, i don't care, as long as i can go to work, as long as i can support my family. i think that needs to be part of our messaging. i just feel very sad that we're in a country where the normalization of 2,500 deaths a day has become a reality. i think far too many people don't see people dying from this disease, it hasn't touched them directly, so t...

Say they're not ready to change guidelines yet. with me is someone who has been on the front lines, dr. rob davidson, an er physician in west michigan. thank you so much for taking the time. look, this is obviously a very real question that everybody has right now in terms of how things are playing out, the dynamics, and the safety guidelines. mask requirements are lifting rapidly around the u.s. walmart has announced that vaccinated employees no longer have to mask up. those in your state of michigan have dropping school mandates. you've asked explicitly, what's the rush. walk me through your...