show justice gorsuch never said the flu kills, i believe, hundreds of thousands of people each year. to instead accurately reflect he said the flu, i believe, kills hundreds, thousands of people each year. new york state officials are advising hospitals to consider race when tweeting covid. nonwhite race or hispanic latinoeth nils city should be risk factor as long understanding will activities increased risk of severe illness and death from covid-19. there was clear data out there that shows that race is independent risk fact for dying from covid-19. we shouldn t be usings race to decide who gets treatment. peter: white house officials know the numbers are rising. there has been unprecedented demand for tests. peter: it s unclear when officials realized that. peter: the president there on television talking about winter of severe illness and death. while he is saying that publicly, why weren t you doing more to prepare for the winter?
alarmed that you know, people don t deal with the fact that i think it s 36% or so of the country remains unvaccinated. and when you hear from the doctors about the strain on our healthcare it system, they are saying it s overwhelming, it s close to 100 percent of the people who are in the hospitals for covid are the unvaccinated. bret: kimberley, dr. scott gottlieb somebody who is a respected source what he says why this virus is spreading. this is an epidemic that is not being instigated, spread, if you will, by people who get diagnosed, isolate for five days and go back into public circulation on day six. while a certain percentage of them will still be infectious. they are not driving the pandemic. the elm what is drisk only diagnosing between one in five and one in ten actual infections. people walking around with mild illness and asymptomatic infection who don t know it who are spreading it.
as a winter of severe illness and death. and instead they are now preparing for a surge in the spring. there has been a massive surge in cases. peter: seven day average of positive cases is near triple a year ago. the overwhelming number of deaths over 75% occurred in people who had had at least four co-morbidities. peter: two days after that helpful answer the cdc director less helpful. bret: do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the u.s. linked to covid are from covid or how many are with covid but they had other co-morbidities. do you have that breakdown? um, yes, of course. those data will be forthcoming. peter: white house officials have combated covid disinformation for months. they are silent on this statement by justice sonia sotomayor. we have over 100,000 children, which we have never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators. even though that number is 20 times too high. a transcript has been updated to
want the courts to force teachers back into the classroom. they are basically using our children as pawns. our kids have been pawns since the beginning of this pandemic, started two years ago. we want them back in the classroom. where they belong. teaching our children. the union is blaming the ongoing standoff on chicago mayor lori lightfoot for not compromising enough. it says it wants teachers back in the classroom this week just without students until the number of covid cases goes down or until it gets a deal that includes more robust testing. the mayor has been rebentless but she is being relentlessly stupid. she is being relentlessly stubborn. she is relentlessly seeking to refuse accommodation and we are trying to find a way to get people back in school. staffing shortages are impacting other schools across the country as well. in minneapolis, several districts held class virtually today due to a shortage of bus drivers and teachers infected in the current surge. and in