crime has gone through the roof and will continue because they have already told eric adams they re not willing to support the reform he is understands are so desperately needed. it will be interesting to watch the president and eric today and see what they come up with. i can guarantee the progressive left is going to attack it as soon as they come out with whatever they say they are planning to do. trying to strike that balance. commissioner bill bratton, gabe gutierrez, thanks so both of you. still ahead, the army immediately moving to discharge soldiers who refuse to get the coronavirus vaccine. and a rare interview with the founders of biontech where the pfizer vaccine was created in germany. don t go anywhere. t go anywhere. nurtec is the first and only option proven to treat and prevent migraines with one medication. onederful. one quick dissolve tablet can start fast and last. don t take if allergic to nurtec. the most common side effects were nausea, stomach pain, and in
bulletproof vest and protect the people. more of my conversation coming up on nbc nightly news. another controversial topic is this issue of bail reform and so many critics, including police unions, are saying that is part of the reason why so many criminals remain on the streets and they attribute some of this crime linked to that. a lot of questions i have for you, commissioner bratton, we heard about this analysis of agencies. can i go back to the core? these numbers that we just talked about are so disturbing. how did we get here? do you think these are covid related? why are we seeing this huge spike in crime all across america? the influence of covid is impacting the court systems where many courts were not functioning during covid. case in point, new york city, over 5,000 people arrested for gun crimes in 2021, fewer than 100 trials in 2021.
joining us now, nbc s molly hunter in london and a doctor at the hospital for center security. molly, you just got back from a rare interview with the two founders of biontech in germany of course where the pfizer/biontech vaccine was created. what s the headline? reporter: hey, chris. that s right. look, first, pretty incredible to meet them. it was an opportunity to say thank you. but we had a couple big questions going in. we asked them of course about the pending fda approval for those two doses for kids. they said they were excited about the two doses and definitely need a third dose coming down the pipeline for that more complete coverage just like the adult dosage. we also asked them, chris, about variant-specific vaccines. we asked them how quickly they could actually turn a new vaccine around after the detection of the new variant. take a listen. i think we understand how this virus operates.
more than 2,600, higher than last fall s peak. deaths overall up 36% from two weeks ago. and to put it in some context looking at european country, other wealthy countcountries, i higher than it is there. yet there are people continuing to say, and we heard this yesterday from mitch mcconnell, it s time just to move on. i know we ve talked about this before, but do we have to get past this? have we given up trying to get past it? what s your view on where we are and how we should be looking at this right now? it s a very difficult situation because what we re seeing with the high death tolls is they re all self-inflicted, primarily people who have not been vaccinated, who ve chosen to put themselves at risk and compromise hospitals capacity. that s different from someone fully vaccinated or boosted where covid-19 is a much more manageable infection, one that s not going to land them in the hospital or cause them to call
january as well as hospitalizations. but while cases soar, vaccinations are falling. florida is now recording less than 20,000 a week. broward county, just north of miami, is now requiring hospitals to report all key metrics meaning not just surges and hospitalizations, but also how many icu beds are available. the governor has just decided as a show of really, you know, just to show off to his base that he is currying favor with that he will stop all local officials from having any impact on this. so our local school board, our superintendent is not going to be able to do what they want to do because he is threatening to withhold funding from them. it is unbelievable in a sense that it feels like he is doing everything in his power to make this disease incredibly difficult. mean while top health expert dr. anthony fauci says he hopes to see the pfizer/biontech