omicron. that s a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. when you have a doubling time that s that short a period, pretty soon that isolate is going to take over. i want to ask you to react to one thing. the vice president said in an interview on friday, we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not, upon whose advice and direction we ve relied. we didn t see delta coming, didn t see omicron coming. and that s the nature of what this awful virus has been, as it turns out has mutations and variants. dr. fauci, perhaps nobody could have seen the specifics of delta and omicron, but did you not see variants coming, or did you? yeah, i did. and i think that the vice president s statement was taken a bit out of context. i believe she was referring to the fact that the extraordinary number of mutations and amino acid substitutions, particularly with omicron, nobody had expected it that much.
march 2020 as covid-19 cases spike in parts of the country. alexandria haugh as the white house announces new measures that could change christmas plans for some america families if they comply. reporter: president biden is expected to make the announcement on tuesday. he previously said he would not shut down the economy or the country. some are bit concerned about planning though after vice president kamala harris, told the l.a. times that the administration was caught off-guard. we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not. didn t see delta coming. didn t see omicron coming. the white house responded saying the vice president comments refer to the exact kind of mutation. they new mutations were possible. the reason we ordered extra tests, extra gear, extra ppe as omicron overlaps the existing
after six months, they get the booster but the administration hasn t gone that far yet. should you? well, in some respects, chuck, it really is semantics. as far as i m concerned, i make it very clear that if you want to be optimally protected, get boosted. whether the definition for legal and other purposes dealing with the osha situation that you have, that s a different story, but if you want to look at it and say when am i optimally protected there s no doubt that s when you get boosted. i know you re doing a round robin of all the sunday shows, just a reminder, i m jake, not chuck. vice president harris told the l.a. times this week that the administration did not anticipate the variants. we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists stood on whose advice and protection we relied on didn t see delta coming, didn t see omicron
they want to change the definition so when people are fully vaccinated that means that after six months, they get the booster but the administration hasn t gone that far yet. should you? well, in some respects, chuck, it really is semantics. as far as i m concerned, i make it very clear that if you want to be optimally protected, get boosted. whether the definition for legal and other purposes dealing with the osha situation that you have, that s a different story, but if you want to look at it and say when am i optimally protected, there s no doubt that s when you get boosted. i know you re doing a round robin of all the sunday shows, just a reminder, i m jake, not chuck. vice president harris told the l.a. times this week that the administration did not anticipate the variants. we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists stood on whose advice and protection we relied on didn t see delta coming, didn t see omicron coming.