goldberg is a new york columnist and brought up the point at the moment we re talking about roe vs. wade a lot of the american right is obsessed with bodily autonomy and my body my choice when it comes to vaccines. she says this feminists have always known if men could get pregnant abortion would be a non-issue. it demonstrates this more than any hypothetical could. many on the right believe it s tyranny to be told to put something they don t want in or on their bodies in order to save lives. i wonder what you think about the comparison of mrna vaccine about a pandemic versus what we re talking about when it comes to viability of a baby and 15 weeks and to me it seemed like a strange comparison. i see what she is trying to do. it s funny because i think people talk using the my body my choice language are adopting it ironically from the abortion
territories have now diagnosed at least one case of omicron. there are no confirmed cases in the u.s. as of now. and the president is urging everyone to stay calm. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world. the best medicines, the best scientists and we re learning more every single day. the president says he does not anticipate more travel bans or any new lockdowns. earlier we spoke with dr. angeli who has been treating omicron patients in strouth africa. she told us what she is seeing. the majority of what we are presenting to primary health care practitioners are extremely mild cases, mild to moderate. we need to tell you what the symptoms are so the people can understand, if you feel fatigue for a day or two, something not
how rapidly this can be transmitted and how serious is the illness for people who get infected with omicron? that s going to take a couple weeks of close observation to see whether people are ending up in the hospital or not. and also because about 27% of south africans are vaccinated. has a vaccine provided some protection. we ll know more in the next couple of weeks. the other part is in the laboratory where we are synthesizing this particular set of mutations and testing in the lab serum from people who are vaccinated is capable of neutralizing omicron. we ll know it by the end of next week. those are biological cycles that have to happen. bill: former surgeon general with us next hour. watch here? what i don t hear yet is what the federal government is
they re also still studying the impact omicron could have in vaccines but they still maintain vaccines are effective in preventing death. after south africa discovered themicron variant, president biden has a travel ban against 18 countries including canada and health officials say it s probably here. governor kathy hochul declaring a state of emergency. today president biden made it clear that while we should be prepared, we shouldn t panic. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists and we re learning more every single day. sooner or later we ll see cases of this variant here in the united states. we ll have to face this new
regulation. so thieves are able to take items and sell it. that marketplace and opportunity is not disappearing until after the holiday season. bill: fair point. nice to see you on madison avenue. president biden: we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists, and we are learning more every single day. and we ll fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion. dana: president biden on the fight against the omicron variant yesterday putting his faith in vaccines to do the jobs as scientists learn more about the new strain and how it spreads. joining us now is francis kol yinls. kol yinls. collins. why does it take two weeks to find out about the mutation? one is to look and see in the real world in south africa, what is the real story about