the other point around delta is true. it s more severe based on omicron. so most of the hospitalizations are still coming from delta rather than omicron. but of course, the 300,000 cases that came in yesterday, most of those are omicron because of the massive numbers that people in the community that are testing, getting positive. trace: doctor, thanks for coming in. we appreciate it. thank you. trace: days after telling state leaders that there is no federal solution to the pandemic , the president now tweeting that there is a federal covid plan. my administration has the back of every governor fighting covid-19 in their state. last week i rolled out a federal plan to tackle omicron by adding vaccination and booster capacity, hospital equipment, staff and more. co-founder of real clear politics, john bevin joins me now. when i saw the tweet come out, it s oh, the white house must
getting criticism for saying there is no better solution, this get solved at the state level. just an hour ago the president tweeted, my administration has the back of every governor fighting covid-19 in their state. last week i rolled out a federal plan to tackle omicron by adding vaccination and booster capacity, hospital equipment, staff, and more. we are going to get through this by working together. a major part of the administration strategies vaccines. the president is again pushing those who don t have the vaccine to get one. one way to boost those totals, a mandate for domestic air travel. dr. anthony fauci said the white house is considering a range of proposals. i did not say i support mandates on domestic flights. i said that is something that is on the table for consideration. i did not say i support it or didn t support it. i was asked, is this something
i.v. or injection. these are pills that you can take at home with a prescription. today s fda approval came less than 24 hours after another anti-viral pill. america now has two new we pops against covid-19. merck s new pill received emergency use authorization for fighting covid-19. the fda says it should be given to patients that are not able to receive other authorized treatments. it s a question of availability and appropriateness. fda officials stopped short of state ago preference for a competing drug, paxlovid which received emergency use authorization yesterday that performed better in clinical studies reducing
that? or do you think it is better for the governors to make these decisions? it is like night and day from the trump administration to the bind administration in getting sport on fighting covid-19. we governors are the ones who had to step up into the breech when the trump administration failed to lead. we stepped up and got together and got our own ppe and did the things that we needed to do, put in the restrictions we needed to do protect the health and safety of our people. the biden administration has come in, has helped us in a coordinated way. we talk them weekly about getting vaccines out there. and its been now just a little over a year since we started vaccinations. we have a large portion of our population vaccinated. that is why we re in a different position today than we were a year ago. and i think governors are going to continue to have to lead and be practical about this. we ve been grateful for the biden administration and all of
just had news in the last couple hours there were 90,000 new covid cases, just today. that s about 10,000 more than we saw yesterday s reporting. and yesterday had broken the record. not the record for omicron, not the record for just this year but the record for daily new cases since the pandemic began. so we are seeing in ernest a massive spike in the number of cases. chuck it is not just about cases. in the uk we re seeing this huge up tick and deaths have more or less stayed the same. they have kind of flat lined. so we re hearing from officials in government they are worried that hospitals and much loved nhs system here is going to be overwhelmed come january or in the coming weeks. that as big worry here and one of the reasons boris johnson the prime minister put that vaccine thing on overdrive. he s putting all of his eggs in this booster basket, really.