joining me now is msnbc medical contributor dr. vin gupta. first off, happy new year to you. i want to start off with china here. what do you expect to see in the coming months, and what is your top concern? lindsey, happy new year. thank you for having me. what we know, lindsey, in china, from projections from the university of washington, is that the peak in terms of their daily deaths will probably not peak until late q1. for march, very similar to what happened in india, where the delta wave, if you remember, may n-may of 2021, peaked, and ha that doesn t seem like a clear peak, greater than 3,000 deaths at least we re estimates right now across the country, at least a million estimated infections, you re pointing to the packages, unclear, because the inputs are not very clear, and oxygen is becoming in scarce supply as well. and you ll remember that same thing in india as well. that these countries don t have enough icu beds per 100,000
40,000 deaths a year so it is still a devastating pandemic so we re not out of this by any means. has the demographic of who are being affected the most severely evolved in this latest period you re saying 3 to 400, still a very large number, dying because of covid-19 right now. how is the demographics changed? in the past, among the delta wave for instance, in the early omicron wave, it was almost all of the unvanccinated, those who were unvaccinated were succumbing and losing their lives, and now we see the goal post and those not boosting are going into the hospital. and that s because of these escape variants, so it s so, even if you ve gotten those first two doses of mrna vaccine way back when, it definitely would help, but if you really walt to ensure you re not going to hospital, you need to get that booster, and americans are
The tsunami of Covid-19 that's taking hold across China is spurring concern that a dangerous new virus variant could emerge for the first time in more than a year, just as genetic sequencing to catch such a threat is dwindling.
horrible delta wave last half of 2021 needlessly lost their lives because they refused a covid vaccine. 200,000 americans from a one to the end of that year in 2021. they would still be alive today had they gotten a covid vaccine. this is an analysis i have undertaken and is being backed up by several other studies. and overwhelmingly and these are analysis by charles gavin health analyst, new york times has confirmed it, national public radio, axios, if research center, and peterson research center, the list goes on, overwhelmingly those deaths are people refusing vaccines were in red states, conservative states, and red or the county, the lower the vaccination rate, and a larger number of people lost their lives. we know why did happen. with the cpac conference in dallas in the summer of 2021. first to gonna vaccinate you, and they re gonna take away your guns and your bibles. as ridiculous that sounds to us, a quarter of the country
efficacy and what they have done for humans on this planet in the teeth of this pandemic? well chris, you pointed out the data from allison gunned and his group at yale, saving 3 million lives instead of 1 million americans losing their lives, and we would ve been 4 million, and you could ve imagined we would ve added that, because our hospital systems would be an almost devastated as they almost were. here s the most important piece that we need to talk about, is that after may one, 2021, the biden administration announced to anyone who wanted to get a covid vaccine could. there were similar dates across the uk, in europe, in canada and australia, and at that point the deck stopped. the in the united states it was just the beginning, because an additional 200,000 americans after may one during the horrible delta wave last half of 2021 needlessly lost their lives because they refused a covid vaccine. 200,000 americans from a one to