on this and to the expense of all the yaerkts means this is an area they want to talk about is a part of their broader work line. they have this area right here. they haven t occupied the whole thing. they think they control that area and it is a part of those two republics that putin has recognized. 20 seconds left, colonel. we want to talk about the casualty figures, the russians saying 1,351 troops are killed as we look at a nato tank. what do you make of the disparity? i would say the russian figures are way too low. we are looking at 7 uchl7,000 - 7,000. we were talking about the possibility we may never really know the full am, the accurate
every life is very important but the losses are not what the west says they are. i’m but the losses are not what the west says they are. west says they are. i m sorry, for: ive west says they are. i m sorry, forgive me west says they are. i m sorry, forgive me for forgive me for misunderstanding, what is less than 20 people, i am not sure what you re saying? than 20 people, i am not sure what you re saying? these are professional what you re saying? these are professional soldiers - what you re saying? these are professional soldiers who, - what you re saying? these are professional soldiers who, for| professional soldiers who, for this time, who been killed. every soul is preciously important. all the information they post on social networks and i do have, as well as other members of the parliament, to the families of the members of the families of the members of the families of the members of the families who lost. but our the families who lost. but your own the families w
the official information that the government, russian government, the ministry of defence gives us. well, i can tell you about my experience that i have from the territory i represent in the state duma. i should tell you, while we are. i won t tell you how many, but it s less than 20 people. well, of course, every life is very important, but the losses are not what the west says they are. sorry. sorry, forgive me for misunderstanding what is less than 20 people? i m not sure what you re saying. well, these are professional soldiers who for this time who have been killed. and every soul for us is preciously important. all the information i post on my social networks, and i do help, as well as other members of our parliament, too, the members of the families who lost their lives. but your own ministry of defence acknowledges that 1,351 russian troops
to collect the data. you re absolutely right, arthel, there s a lot we don t know. we will learn a lot more even by the end of this week, i think we ll know a lot more. here are the questions that i m asking. number one, is this does this produce more severe disease than the variants that we ve been experiencing, predominantly alpha and delta in the united states. i don t think so. it looks like it may be about the same. we re hearing some reports of mild disease, other reports out of south africa, saying they are seeing some severe disease. i think it will even out in the wash and look like more or less the same as what we ve seen with alpha and del the take. delta. the other questions are what s the ability of this virus to escape vaccine induced immunity. there are a lot of mutations in the spike protein including the receptor binding domain which is the target of the vaccines. we ve seen other ones with some similarities, if you remember the b1351 out of south africa last yea
do you think omicron is more contagious than delta? we don t know whether it can compete with delta. we ve had occasions we thought a variant was going to take over in the united states. remember beta, b.1.3.5.1, it never took off because delta was so incredibly effective at spreading that it couldn t compete. we don t know what omicron looks like if it gets to our country. i hope it doesn t but it s fairly likely we ll see cases. will it be able to compete or fizzle? do you think it s already here in the united states? we have no evidence that it is. we will find out. cdc is looking at tens of thousands of isolates every week. we ll find out if it s here. big picture, dr. collins, does the new variant set us back in our efforts to end this pandemic once and for all? it s certainly not good news. we don t know yet how much of an