thank you jo ling kent for being with us. appreciate it. a potential fifth covid wave is hitting much of the country right now. a big surge could be on the horizon this fall. the days of free covid vaccines may be running out. right now covid funding is stalled in congress. a senior biden administration official says the federal government does not have enough money to begin contract negotiations with pfizer and moderna for new versions of their vaccines. the official says that could mean vaccines may only be available to the highest-risk people this fall. i want to bring in dr. ebony hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, msnbc medical contributor. doctor, always a pleasure to see you. as a doctor, if access to newer vaccines isn t a guarantee for americans who want one, what could that mean? it can mean a disaster. i m not saying that to create
country braces for another wave of coronavirus infections. and for more on this, we want to bring in journalist elliott gotkine, who joins us live from jerusalem. so why has israel decided a fourth shot is needed at this time despite other experts suggesting it may be premature? rosemary, i don t think israel will mind going out on a limb in terms of being the first to administer a fourth dose. it pretty much did so when it first introduced booster shots back in the summer. many experts in other countries were saying, no, it wasn t necessary. so i think israel won t worry about that. i think at the same time, it just wants to do everything possible to try to mitigate this fifth covid wave, which is now already here in israel. and so this was the panel of coronavirus experts last night recommending this fourth dose for medical workers, for over 60s, people with suppressed immune systems. at the same time, it recommended shrinking the time gap between people taking their second
story that s familiar. the governor of maryland has announced he has tested positive as well for covid-19. he is vaccinated and boosted and says so far he is feeling fine. senators elizabeth warren and cory booker also announced positive tests over the weekend. in europe, the spread of the omicron variant is a few weeks ahead of us here in the u.s. now many countries, they re back on alert and posing new restrictions not seen since the worst days of the early pandemic. cnn is covering those responses to the variant around the globe. reporter: israel is adding ten more countries including the u.s. and canada to its red no-fly list as it braces for the full force of a fifth covid wave. from 5:00 p.m. eastern time on tuesday, these countries will be off-limits for israelis unless they get special permission. travelers arriving from them will have to self-isolate for seven days, first in a designated quarantine hotel, then once they get a negative
we need support and we need a unvaccinated people to talk steps to protect themselves so they don t end up at our doorstep. thanks for all do, doctor. appreciate you taking the time to share what you re experiencing and sending the best to all of our colleagues and giving you strength to get through the next wave. thank you, ana. i want to give you a better sense of how other countries are coping with covid right now. the omicron variant is spreading quickly. especially in europe force new restriction, something we haven t seen since the worst days of this pandemic. cnn reporters are following developments from across the globe. reporter: in jerusalem israel is adding ten more countries, including the u.s. and canada, to its red no-fly list as it braces for the full force of a fifth covid wave. from 5:00 p.m. eastern time on tuesday the countries will be off-limits for israelis unless they get special permission. travelers arriving from them will have to self-isolate for
we re trying to on a daily basis synthesize all the information we re hearing from around the world, all the data that are becoming available if south africa, from the uk, from the united states, and come up with plausible projections as to what might happen. there s still a lot of uncertainty. we have some very pessimistic scenarios which suggest that we could see a wave that peaks by the end of january that s much higher than wave we experienced last winter and january 2021. we could see more than twice as many cases at the peak, possibly even 20% more deaths during this peak than we saw last year. but that s a very pessimistic scenario, and things could be much milder than that. so the more optimistic scenario? the more optimistic scenario, all the scenarios, all of our projections suggest that we are probably entering a wave that will peak sometime in january or possibly early february. but in the more optimistic scenarios, the wave won t even