reports lately. we re going to pull back on our bond buying program, hike rates, that s always going to believe a risky maneuver. that s coming in the first quarter. i want to talk to you about that in terms of whether you re a central banker and talking monetary policy or a politician talking about fiscal policy, do they still have the tools to deal with this, if this new variant ends up giving us much more adversity than anyonei thi fed to raise rates because of this very thing. you don t want to have no ammo in another crisis. i wish they would have raised them last quarter before we knew about the delta variability. my concern is they raise rates, the delta sorry, the omicron variant is worse than we thought.
treat republicans and democrats equalitily. it is equally. it is sound policy. we don t know a lot of about omicron. we know it can transfer over person to person whether vaccinated or not worse than delta variability. i would like to see more data. i think it would be important to making policy decisions related to travel. it is the right decision right now. the policy is the same, they should be treated equally and that s the problem with politics in this country today, they re not. jason: well, but leting look at florida versus michigan. florida has some of the best covid transmission rates, all of it is bad but certainly what governor de santis is doing was widely panned but he s having the most success right now. he absolutely is. and one of the things the cdc has not done and no policy maker at a federal level has done so far has taken into account what natural immunity does. that may be what we re seeing in florida today. in some studies i ve read, national immunity gives yo
treat republicans and democrats equalitily. it is equally. it is sound policy. we don t know a lot of about omicron. we know it can transfer over person to person whether vaccinated or not worse than delta variability. i would like to see more data. i think it would be important to making policy decisions related to travel. it is the right decision right now. the policy is the same, they should be treated equally and that s the problem with politics in this country today, they re not. jason: well, but leting look at florida versus michigan. florida has some of the best covid transmission rates, all of it is bad but certainly what governor de santis is doing was widely panned but he s having the most success right now. he absolutely is. and one of the things the cdc has not done and no policy maker at a federal level has done so far has taken into account what natural immunity does. that may be what we re seeing in florida today. in some studies i ve read, national immunity gives yo
better. nbc news miguel almaguer has more. reporter: as the crisis deepens at hospitals in hot spots the numbers are staggering and sobering, surpassing last summer s averages for new cases, our nation has recorded over 100,000 infections in a single day. the delta variant filling icus and killing more americans from week to week. if you get sick with the delta variability, we estimate that you could infect about five other unvaccinated people, more than twice as many as the original strain. reporter: though it comes nearly a month after the president s fourth of july goal, 70% of adults are at least partially vaccinated, but every day more breakthrough infections are being reported. senator lindsey graham, now in quarantine after announcing his infection says being fully vaccinated kept his covid symptoms from being far worse. even a high vaccine effectiveness, most of these infections are going to be
see lockdowns. i think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but i believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. but things are going to get worse. alicia: so no shutdowns in all likelihood but what does worse look like to you? first of all, you re ray hurray for him saying no shutdowns. we have the 165 million people fully vaccinated. out of 165 million, only 165,000 hospitalizations. no way we re going back to where we were last winter. i don t know if i agree it s going to get worse. i do think we re in a bad patch right now and we have to get more people vaccinated to fight the delta variability. delta variant is at least two to three times more contagious than previous and looks like it can cause more severe illness among