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Behind here? well, joining me now is dr. harvey raiche, epidemiology professor at yale school ofal public health. rice, i feel like like they got the old band back together. they had found jadeja. they had leonski. it and so it's the sub variant of the sub variant ofe the boaster times three . >> what is happening here? >> well, we're back to singapore and the there's no other excuse worked. >> once we think it's going to work again, they just do more of it. but dr. hish, even the new york times, i think said today that new yorkers are done. i mean, they're just nott they're just not going bac...

What the fda says. if they authorize it, i do. the sub variant is out there. we know we will see more and variance. i want people's immune system to be as protected as possible. getting a vaccine is the safest way to do that. >> we know omicron specific boosters are expected to come in the fall. there's been a bunch of hope around that. are you concerned that the variance will evolved past the newer boosters by then? >> this is a very good question. i think the fda experts who look at this data suggested that we make a variance specific booster out of the ba 5. that is most likely to be the ve...

It is 47 minutes past the hour and the white house announces a new plan to manage the omicron variant of covid. nationwide cases have increased 80% with the seven day average for new cases growing to more than 128,000 daily infections. those figures do not include the at-home tests many are using now. joining us is the white house covid-19 response coordinator, dr. ashish jha . what is the white house doing? >> we've been tracking the sub variant for weeks now. it is spread in other parts of the world and we have watched as it has become dominant in the united states. it is highly immune invas...

Headlines this week about the new sub variant of omicron, with the new clinical name, ba.5. some headlines are calling it, quote, the worst fire aspirant -- ba.5 is now the dominant strain in the country and accounts for more than half of the country's covid cases. we know it is more contagious than any previous strain we have come across so far. and experts say there are some early signs that this variant might make you slightly sicker than previous strains. we are waiting to get more data about that. but here is why it matters. let's have a look at that chart again. what does it tell you? it...

If you're 50 years or older ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingles. you may have seen different versions of this very colorful chart from the centers for disease control, given that we have been flooded with more and more new contagious coronavirus variants in the past year. this is the cdc's varied proportion chart. it tells you how much of the coronavirus floating around our country is from one variant versus another. and it shows you how those proportions have changed over time, which is why you get that left to right color gradient. this chart specifically the greenish teal bar on th...