american people the fact that getting vaccinated will help protect them from hospitalization, from death. it will help protect their loved ones and we have had a great deal of success in that. harris: some would argue the president is doing just that with the administration s gloom and doom messaging. here is a tape. president biden: there is no excuse. no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. for those who choose to remain unvaccinated he will make cheer unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. i do think it s really important to recognize the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated americans. president biden: this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, not anything else right now. harris: will. you know, harris, i get that that reporter feels like joe biden should be living up to the standards of the president
so clearly we know that the folks who are here for covid, the vast majority, i would say over 80%, overall, they re unvaccinated. and then we re seeing about 50% of folks in the hospital in general being unvaccinated. but a large proportion are people not here with covid symptoms necessarily. but those here with covid symptoms, certainly those in the icu, a vast majority are unvaccinated. dr. hills, thank you. dr. salazar, a thanks to you. this morning a key diplomatic meeting between u.s. and russian officials over russia s aggression toward ukraine. can the biden administration convince russia not to invade? we re going to have the latest on those talks. first, though, an absolutely unbelievable tragedy over the weekend in the bronx. 19 people killed in the deadliest fire new york city has
to say are now vaccinated. travis, first of all, thanks for being with us. it s painful just watching you struggle in that include to try to speak. you ve been doing so much to try to get your story out there. are you getting any sign, any signal that your message is getting through? yeah, yeah. daily we get messages from facebook community and friends and family that they re getting vaccinated and as well our local pharmacy that we use, cvs, gives us updates that they stay busy. i tell you, those videos are definitely difficult to watch. i documented my journey for my friend and family to make sure that they didn t go through exactly what i was experiencing and put their family into by being unvaccinated. so this is a true testament of what we can do to make sure that
not delivering basic stuff like free tests to the american public. there are studieses suggesting a correlation between low-income, uninsured and not having access to a primary care doctor, as a result being unvaccinated. i think we see the holes in the american system throughout this entire process. we see front line workers who, as you say, don t have access to primary care or have more pre-existing conditions, are more susceptible. they are the same ones were going to have the toughest time finding tests, frankly. we have a kind of hunger games of tests right now. and if you have resources and can get online or figure out a way to get them shipped from someplace else, you ll be fine. if not, you re in real trouble. we have gaps throughout this system. the only developed country in the world without a universal guarantee to health care and we see it showing up over and over again. and unfortunately, people with the fewest resources, people in the worst health care conditions, going
trajectory, the change trajectory of our economy to finally make it work for working people. be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. there s no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. do you hold former president trump personally responsible? for the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. i will defend this nation and i will now no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. yesterday s speech set the tone of the new year for president biden. susan glasser writes this in the new yorker. quote, it was a powerful speech, an angry speech, a necessary speech. it was also a speech that biden wanted very much not to deliver. because doing so meant acknowledging that, although trump may be out of office, trump and trumpism have not been ban i should, but live on as the dominating unpleasant reality of