portion of the population. but having it end quickly is going to make a difference. dr. aja, we covered a lot of ground. thank you. coming up, the request objected on the eve of roe v. wade the supreme court delivers another blow to abortion rights activists. andrea is back with that here on andrea mitchell reports right here on msnbc. andrea mitchell reports right here on msnbc. to find 92% of colon cancers. even in early stages. early stages. yep. it s for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider if cologuard is right for you. we re in. amazing. jerry, you gotta to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks. gets a little old.
variant. he said part of that preparation will need to include new vaccines. he also said by the time the new variant arrives, all americans should have access to antiviral treatments immediately after testing positive. are we on track for both new variant vaccines and for that kind of therapeutics that may make that kind of difference. joining us now is ashish aja, he s dean of the brown public school of health. dr. aja, thank you for being here. thank you, rachel, thanks for having me back. you embody, with what you posted around twitter today around it, i wonder if you can tell people how to keep in mind these two things at once. that it does feel like we have a sense of what the shape of the omicron curve is going to be like, that we may be on the far side of it, on the downslope side of it. while also seeing health care
under way, pfizer s ceo says he expects the omicron variant vaccine to be ready quickly, in march, which is, after all, only a few weeks away. even before we ve got an omicron variant specific vaccine, though, lots of u.s. states hit hardest in the early part of the omicron variant wave are already seeing cases decline rapidly, because we re seeing that in multiple hard-hit state, even while the variant continues to surge in states with low vaccination rate, our overall national case count is also now starting to drop. we appear to be on the downward side of the curve in terms of the omicron crush. dr. ashish aja, the dean of brown public school of public health. put it this way in the washington post, the head line as you can see it, the worst of omicron might have passed, but the pandemic is not over. dr. aja suggested that we use the next few months when we see the lower level of virus to get ready for the next surge or next
that s the first thing. know which ones going to work. you can t just walk into cvs and get an order of paxil. you have to target the people. there s a lot of work that goes on beyond not having enough doses and the work to put in that crisis which is harder to pull out. dr. ashish aja, dean of brown public school of health, voice of reason here always nice to see you, sir. we ll be right back. stay with us. we ll be right back. stay with us
and they re always glad you came the u.s. has broken another covid record. the nation now surpassing 69 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic two years ago. this comes agency the cdc releases new data highlighting the importance of booster shots for americans 50 years and older. joining me, dr. ashish aja. dr. aja, the new rule from the cdc seems to reinforce the fact that it s booster shots keeping older americans out of the hospital. how do you interpret it? thanks for having me back, the data here is what we ve seen until other cases, boosters really work, they work great