shield that i was just cleaning day after day and using for months. now i have as many face shields of masks, gloves, gowns, etc that i want. we are in a very different position in terms of protective equipment than we were at the beginning of the pandemic. well at least, on that positive note, we will see some things are going right. we but hats off to you and to all the folks who work with their. those who are fighting on the front line. doctor céline gounder, we appreciated. i m coming up, it s one of the past year s biggest stories. the fragile state of our democracy. we will talk about it with our great political observers, two of the best that we have. when the 11th hour, continues. he 11th hour, continues.
the caseload. and we may be just at the beginning of what the world health organization chief warns maybe a tsunami of delta and omicron cases. back with us tonight, doctor céline gounder, clinical assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the nyu school of medicine and bellevue hospital. she was part of a panel that advised the biden transition team. and she was the weekly podcast of the impact of coronavirus called, epidemic. it is good to have you here. i want to start with that possible tsunami. reference by the w. h. o chief. there was a new york headline that said that new york struggles to keep running under omicron. when everything from a huge percentage of emts calling out sick, subway lines shutting down because they don t have people, there was this one example of a 68th president. in downtown brooklyn, wanda ortiz who has a fever, body
their buildings, come up with infrastructure plans. work with vendors to do that. and then spend the money. and that is not an easy task for school districts to do. i will say this. you can buy help of filters. they are not cheap, but they re also not astronomically expensive. you can get word of them online and you can put those in spaces. everybody who is running building should be looking into doing that. consulting with people, dr. céline gounder and dr. eric topol, thank you both. top biden nominee who draws in contention with patterns, next. i don t mean any disrespect, i don t know whether to call you a professor or comrade. senator, i am not a communist. t.
continuingly introduced new fresh, air filter through hospital great help of filters. sure enough, despite hundreds of million people have flown over the past 20 months, there only a few dozen confirmed cases on airlines. it seems like this is a place that we really should have been focusing on for the last 20 months i need to focus on even more now, doctor céline gounder. so the indoor quality air at hovered have been on this topic. we have really focused on improving indoor air quality, ventilation and air fruit filtration in schools. there is over 170 billion dollars in the american rescue plan. and other legislation that allocates funding tes fundinand as i said, fundinh the schools to make these kinds of infrastructure upgrades. but that has to be planned and the school district level. school districts need to assess
has a lot of people feeling optimistic about the new vermont, including doctor anthony fauci. the pfizer data gives us now very important information, that although this diminution of the effect of a two dose vaccine, when you get a booster, you dramatically increase the level of projected protection by about 25 fold. which means that people who get boosted after their two dose mrna should really do quite well. that s why we re projecting that we will see clinically. yes, that s very good news but it s still early, very early, and lots of people have been boosted. the new variant is only a few weeks old, there s still a lot we do not know. and there still a bunch of questions that need answering. i am joined now by two people who are going to help me unpack what we know and we don t know. doctor céline gounder, she served on the biden advisory board. and doctor eric topol, writer of the ground truth blog on