haven t gotten a booster to get one. 77% of people in new york city of all ages have gotten at least one shot. statewide, 90% of new york adults have gotten at least one shot, craig. we re still learning about the omicron variant, what it s going to mean in the weeks and months ahead. we do know that doctors in south africa discovered the variant. you actually talked to some of the doctors, as i understand it. what did they say? reporter: we are not exactly sure if it started in south africa or a neighboring country, but they were the ones who sounded the alarm. the reason is they were looking for it. they are very good geneticists, in part because they spent so long dealing with the aids and hiv epidemic. they re still dealing with that
was too soon to rule out any connection between covid-19 and the wuhan china laboratory. now the official said the lab leak theory must be taken seriously and calling for a thorough investigation. dr. siegel your initial reaction to suddenly interest in wuhan lab. exactly. i spoke with dr. francis collins. one of the world s greatest geneticists about the coronavirus. he said he was fairly certain it wasn t bioengineered and started in nature and asked him about gain-of-function research. we have not done that kind of so-called gain-of-function research on coronaviruss at all.
interview with dr. francis call lines. hi, mark. imagine if our public health officials had been seriously examining and confronting china about the possibility of a lab league for covid origins 1 1/2 years ago, including dr. francis collins? one of the world s greatest geneticists? i spoke to him about his current thinking and now he mentions the possibility that it was being studied in a wuhan lab. i don t believe this virus was human engineered but i can t exclude that there was in fact a laboratory that was studying the naturally occurring virus and perhaps a laboratory investigator got infected accidentally and spread out of there. that would be a lab leak. it s not a human engineered virus. he acknowledged that the
but using dubious pseudoscience to prop up racism happens even in 2019. remember jared taylor? i think most people would not consider you white. you believe that whites are superior in terms of intelligence? oh, the evidence seems to suggest that the smartest people in the world are ashkenazi jews, then east asians, then whites, then hispanics are a very heterogenous population, but then black africans and australian aborigines come up near the bottom. while genetic variations among human populations clearly exist, human beings are in fact 99.9% identical in their genetic makeup. we sequenced the first genome in history. no less than one of the geneticists who mapped the human genome, craig venter, put it simply. there is no basis in scientific fact or in the human genetic code for the notion that skin color will be predictive of