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And a faculty member at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. we have been speaking for over two years now. dr. gupta, thank you for being here. at one level, we've not had the level of tension that we've had in march and april and may in 2020. on the other hand, we have this new strain. and we are a little confused as to what we are supposed to do about it. >> ali, it's great to see you, good evening. it's true. and the fact that really worries me is that three in four adult americans that are eligible for the next booster shot -- number three, that ...

Going to get it. or in some cases if they are eligible for that fourth shot they are not going to get it. that is concerning in this era of a more transmissible variant. because, ali, come the wintertime, if we are not up to date with our vaccines, those individuals who are high-risk are going to be -- end up in the hospital because, while we focus so much on antibodies, blocking the virus from causing us to test positive, blocking the onset of a sore throat, the really key component here is something called t cells that harbor, pretty much, in our lungs. they help prevent severe infection fro...

Available to the public and we have lifted mask mandates. it makes us be in a more dangerous situation, mum like when were in 2020 when we were finding out covid-19 is. at this point we have a more transmissible variant. with each variant it seems to increase in transmissibility. we have waning vaccine effectiveness. in fact, if you look at the omicron surge, if you only had two doses of your vaccine at that point, the vaccine effectiveness was between 30% to 50%. we have to start getting real about this and think about mitigating factors. >> you started our conversation by saying i don't mean...

People say, that's it, we're done. there's not. it's unknown. since we only have 45% of the people who received a booster the concern is you seeing the more transmissible variant will you now see an uptake in hospitalizations again. i do think it's a time of vigilance. yes, we're in a better place but it's definitely a time of vigilance where we should reach for those efforts that have made a difference, such as the masks that you talked about. and to make sure that we not let funding the most important, funding for this covid response go away. we still have not seen action from congress to ma...

In cases. omicron is very transmissible, transmissible variant, but much different than anything we have seen before, but you can protect yourself, and you should protect yourself, frankly. get vaccinated, get boosted. there's plenty of booster shots, wear a mask while you are in public. what we know is this. the impact from the rising cases depends on the effect on a person based on whether that person, what their vaccination status is. you can control how big an impact omicron is going to have on your health if you get omicron. you know, those are fully vaccinated, especially those with a bo...