covid mandate mania, the far left state now weighing mandatory covid vaccines for all students. that s straight ahead on fox & friends. that s a pretty tight spot. watch this. of course your buick parks itself. that s so you. it s just up here on the right. of course you know where we re going. that s so you. i kinda got a sixth sense. and a head up display. [whistle blows] [horn honks]
fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier is here to weigh in. good morning, dr. saphier, what do you think about this? good morning, ainsley. ainsley, make no doubt of it, covid is not hurting our children but people are. it is remarkably irresponsible how children continue to be caught in the middle of these failed covid policies and the inability to walk them back as the landscape of the pandemic continues to change. if you think about with alpha and delta and the earlier variants, before percent positivity when you didn t have immunity, when you didn t have treatments, the impetus behind the vaccinating of the children despite the fact there is nearing 100 percent survival rated was to lessen that transmission. with omicron, the argument for the vaccine mandates are just vaccines in healthy young kids falls flat when the ability to prevent infection and transmissibility has dropped below 30%. yet, you still have people who are pushing forward with these mandates regarding t
competition. in the coming weeks and months americans can expect to see more more protections for farmers and ranchers, selling products like beef, pork and poll tri. more options and better prices for consumers more clarity in the actual price you will pay for high speed internet services and airline tickets. steve: but it s supply and demand. because of covid some people are out work at the plant, the process the stuff, put it on the trucks, the truckers are 6%, 15%, 20% are calling in sick every day to put it on your grocery shelves. and when you don t have stuff, prices go up. ainsley: weighs blaming the beef industry now he wants to help them. brian: he wants to died. too much concentration of power. the same concentration gave us great price as year ago. nothing changed dramatically except supply chain issues.
sense that at this point they do not do what we once intended them to do. ainsley: what do you expect for 2022 are we all reaching immunity? are the majority of americans immune and what do you expect for the next year? well we have been talking about this goal post for the last two years. what does that look like? you have about 81% of u.s. individuals five years and above who have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. anywhere from 60 to 70% of the u.s. population have already been exposed to this virus. you have a large amount of immunity. we have to get to a point where we can accept a higher level of transmission because of this high level of hybrid immunity, vaccine immunity, natural immunity as well as the fact that we have treatments. getting coronavirus now is not the same for the majority of people as it would have been in the last two years. we have to be able to shift our mindset, get to a place where we accept that covid-19 is going to circulate. you are going to ge
over the weekend so, they were chronicling what happened. cdc director take your mask off, in april. don t worry about it from take your mask off. fine. wait a second, this variant is penetrating the vaccines. is it johnson & johnson have is it all of them? my goodness, what do we we do now. never acknowledged it okay. put the mask on only in certain situations now different cities come in. different states come, in different politicians come in and it blurred everything and there was no vice president pence in charge of a group of experts in order to type out a policy. ainsley: i don t think they were trying to be funny. don lemon said it wasn t funny. brian: they were factual. ainsley: they were expressing their frustrations. she did say i m done with covid. it doesn t necessarily mean when they walk in a store they are not going to wear a of course that. steve: right. ainsley: she is not saying not to get vaccinated. she is saying what everyone is