with this variant that could allow it to elude current vaccines. again, a could, an educated guess. they don t know. until they know why don t you just say i don t know? we re looking. as soon as we get the data we ll bring it. part of it? breathless media, fragile public. reacts to the unknown. and there is a sense that these guys should act like they know things, right? why don t they know? because they don t. they re not politicians not in the business of selling you a proposition no matter what the facts are. as for the president, and others, telling us the best protection against omicron is get fully vaccinated or get your booster shot again, i m not saying i got vaccinated and i understand why people want the booster shot. but why say that about omicron when you don t know how it interacts with the vaccine? one argument. because it is better to get the protection we know than no protection at all and we still have other strains to fight specifically delta. okay. fair point. ano
explanation for why we re still in the pandemic and why the virus is still mutaing and forming new variants like omicron is there are so many unvaccinated people around the world. 44% of the global population right now is fully vaccinated. 55.6% of the global population had at least one dose of the vaccine but still half the world, you can see the heat map there, half the world is unvaccinated. among the least vaccinated countries, the congo, .1%, haiti, yemen, ethiopia, most of these are poor countries that are unvaccinated, almost totally unvaccinated and the united arab emirates are doing better but there is still a lot of unvaccinated people. the united states is 58th, we rank 58th in vaccination status in the world. am i right that that is why
what s true and what s false and i think that gets lost. when you showed this earlier in the show when you have a big part of society that consumes right-wing media channel like fox and other sources of information, they are not getting vaccinated because they believe that the vaccine is harmful or that the vaccine, as fox was saying, part of a global conspiracy to help democrats, and as ronny jackson said as part of a midterm election variant to stoke those fears, what are you saying the role of the media should be in that situation. should they call out that misinformation, should they not call it out? even as i was saying impacting our democracy when you have a right-wing echo chamber that is saying the election was stolen, that is pretty serious. again, it s not just misinformation. i would argue it s disinformation. they re deliberately putting out there so that their viewers can consume it and become more angry and more mobilized towards that
effects, south africa, this was a case of brilliant cutting edge science by south african scientists, transparency by the government. they should be rewarded the governments of south africa and botswana for transparency and that should be incentivized not punished. the scientist that was reporting this tweeted today because of the travel ban he can t get the reagents to keep being our eyes and ears. that is a per verse incentive. one last thing and i appreciate you doing this on an important night here as we are doing a reset after thanksgiving in the midst of hanukah. the idea of what we should do prudently, get the booster, or assuming you can t do both because you don t have enough or get the vaccine you can to the other places with the 7% to create a base of prevention outside the united states as you outlined. assuming you can t do both nearly as well as you could do just one should that be the focus? let s look at the concrete numbers. w.h.o. has set a target of every
that we expect not to see any more travel restrictions. i think what we really see with this current one is it is a slippery slope. we have really robust protocols in place. you know, air travel is safe. you have to have a vaccine and a negative pcr test to come into the u.s. we think that that is the appropriate way to assess an individual s risk and not preventing a wholesale country from coming to the u.s. what dr. fauci and the u.s. says is this temporary ban on the south african nations is to buy some time. why aren t you persuaded by that? absolutely understand the concern there. but as we ve seen, as we just heard from the doctor, if you are vaccinated, the symptoms are very, you know, insignificant, really. you re feeling that malaise. quite frankly, we think, again, it should be the individual risk