continuous problem when there s so much transmission. senator rubio said that people are testing positive who were admitted to the hospital for other cases. are you seeing that? let me just be clear. we are, we have almost as high a level of patients with covid in our hospitals as we did during the delta peak in august here. so, we are, we are almost at the same level as we were in august. now, yes, some of those individuals presented with noncovid symptoms initially. but that doesn t mean that can covid is not contributed to the reason they are in hospital. we are trying to tease out exactly who s who, and how we had to treat each individual. you are on the miami-dade public school medical task
to spread it to individuals who are more sensitive to severe disease and number three, you will have more possibility of forming another worse variant. we are already seeing indications of another variant right now in southern france that appears to have arisen from cameroon, and this is just a continuous problem when there s so much transmission. senator rubio said that people are testing positive who were admitted to the hospital for other cases. are you seeing that? let me just be clear. we are, we have almost as high a level of patients with covid in our hospitals as we did during the delta peak in august here. so, we are, we are almost at the same level as we were in august. now, yes, some of those individuals presented with noncovid symptoms initially. but that doesn t mean that can covid is not contributed to the
john? to that point, again, if you look at the overall numbers right now and just see this here. you don t even need me to tell you the numbers. we re approaching 770,000 cases a day. it s high, kind of like a skyscraper. we were at 15,000 cases, elizabeth, down to 15,000 cases a day. dealt ark became dominant and got up to the delta peak of 170,000 and tells you how powerful omicron is. these are still delta cases and when omicron became dominant and, bam, up to here which is why as you note in some parts of the country things are starting to turn and other parts of the country will have to wait. when you see the numbers show high, there s a preliminary israeli study that says for theismno compromised it might be time for a fourth dose soon. what did you make of that? that s right. it s interesting. in israel now for several weeks they have been giving fourth doses to people who are over age 60 and to people who are immunocompromised and the question in israel is do it they do it
the virus evolution and bring the pandemic under control globally. tell me why this is important, why the mrna vaccines versus the other vaccines work differently. thanks so much for having me on the show. it s nice to see you again. i think as you said in your introduction, the mrna vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of getting infected with different strains of the virus. every time you get an infection and the virus can replicate in a person, that s a chance for mutations to happen. you can see more variants. data that came out from israel in october, right after the delta peak, showed that the booster shots if you gave booster shots to people older than 60, they found that you had lower rates of infection. you don t see this with the other types of vaccines. it s really important that we use the mrna vaccines. that s the best we have right now. if you can reduce the risk of
week. that is the statistic we ve been watching most closely because the goal of the vaccine rollout was to prevent severe illness and to keep people out of the hospital. again, that dip in hospitalizations most pronounced in the northeast, down about 13% in the last seven days. you can see the trend lines in states such as new york and new jersey have all started to drop, but they or still higher than the delta peak which helps explain why so many hospitals still report being overwhelmed. there is a slight drop in the midwest as well. in southern and western states, as you can see here, though, hospitalizations still on the rise. they were later to see the omicron outbreak. dr. anthony fauci predicts they ll hit their peak by mid february arpd and we can enter a new normal. what we would hope is as we get into the next weeks to month or so, we ll see throughout the entire country the level of infection get to below what i call that air gentleman of