from your constant state of run back to it. that is telling you about the omicron variant. hospitalization rates are nine times lower than previous trains. deaths are negligible. why are people panicked? heather mcdonald has thought about this deeply. she has a brand-new piece on it in the spectator. heather, thanks so much for coming on. why are people so afraid of an illness that objectively speaking probably shouldn t terrify people? s i have been so depressed by the media, i m calling everything covid. because the media has perfected a set of strategies to keep people terrified over the last couple months. they are working marvelously. strategy number one: the case count. if all you hear from the press is cases, cases are rising, it
firefighting equipment. it seems to me that we will not even see the first of these tests. we won t see them until later this month. if this had happened under trump, the pundits would be shouting they are not following the signs when it comes to the cdc. lurching to a five day quarantine. at the same time, we are in this bottom up shutdown. by the fact that they are so many affected workers. when we hear there are a half million new cases reported every day, that is actually in undercount. they have no way of tracking the tests that exist. some journalists and scientists are saying that we should just stop. there is no point to it. that would be a new year s gift for joe biden have in the excessive daily focus on these numbers. several doctors are saying forget about the case count and let s focus on severe illness and totality s. that is what the true metric should be. it really does seemed like we
going straight up like a rocket. i think soon we will be seeing millions of people getting infected on a daily basis. and the shame of it is that we have at our disposal something that can prevent athat and thos have vaccines. and due to politics or stubbornness or whatever, we re not taking eadvantage of that. but when history is written, they will be laughing and saying, you know what? they had the cure and the treatment at their fingertips and they didn t use it. and that is a deadly shame. at the very least. doctor, thank you so much and all the best in the new year, thank you, sir. thank you, sir. likewise. well, it was another day of record high covid infections for many european countries. uk, ireland, greece, spain, and italy among nations reporting their highest daily case count ever. we have the very latest now from
truth about the 2022 election, which of course makes donald trump mad. we begin with the coronavirus and a look at new actions and a new tone from the biden white house. covid infections up about 30% this week and deaths up 40%. the omicron variant driving the current case count, now with 150,000 new cases per day. they said the omicron variant should peak in a few weeks. they are driving some new actions as well, including today s announcement from the white house. the government is buying a half million courses of covid treatment from astrazeneca. the pre dr. fauci did backing them up and saying, live with it. everyone is likely to get exposed and likely infected.
brace yourself, because they are high. over the last two weeks, cases are up over 200%. but take caution in that because hospitalizations are only up 35% and deaths, deaths are actually down. the daily average is just over 1,300. more signs that omicron is less virulent, especially among those who are vaccinated. this map from the cdc tracts community transmission across the country. officials warn the holiday weekend is causing a case count delay. so what happens when you do test positive? because some of our most trusted doctors on this show say it will happen. well, pay attention to the news, because the cdc might be about to change its isolation requirements again. i believe that the cdc soon will be coming out with more