Pres. Trump p nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. Everytything good . Farmers doing good . Thank you, President Trump. Think you very much, all. We are here to announce dramatic action to support our nations open. S as we it is happening fast and with better numbers than anyone would have thought. I want to express our gratitude to the producers across the country who have kept our nation fed and nourish as we have battled the invisible enemy. It is an invisible enemy. It is tough, but we are going to win and we are going to win very big. We can never forget all the people who have been left behind that have died, for some reason that should have never happened. Should have never happened. You know that, i know that. And the e people that caused the problem, they know that too. Thats too bad. You remind us that the American Farmers, the backbone of our country, they are really a great friend of mine and i appreciate all the support and i know they appreciate our supp
This morning based on nine separate institutions indicating that we could potentially see another 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june. A reminder that the house is in recess this week. The senate is in session. 2. Ve coverage on cspan as we approach memorial day weekend, we want to hear from you, your top concern as your state begins to reopen. All 50 states reopening this week. If you recently returned to work, here is the number. Anyou are a Business Owner, essential worker, here is the number. , here is thes number. If it seems a little bit different today, we are coming to you from my home and also a satellite location where this program is being directed. We will get your phone calls in just a moment. I reminder that the Senate Government Homeland Affairs committee will be holding a hearing this morning looking into a couple of things, including joe biden and his son hunter and his connection to the Ukra
joined by dr. georges benjamin. i want to start with ba.5, the dominant covid variant. 65% of infections as of last weekend. what do we know about ba.5, what don t we know and how concerned should we be about this one? guest: this virus continues to evolve. the bad news is that this is one of the most infection variant s. we are not seeing a marked uptick in hospitalizations or debt. the uptake of infection means we need to double down on other things that were. host: most infectious among vaccinated people, what about people who have had covid before? guest: people who are unvaccinated are most at risk. this current strain of ba.5, and ba.4 by the way, can also infect and re-infect people who are vaccinated. the vaccine is very protective, but we are seeing people get reinfected. host: when it comes to doubling down on protection, what are we talking about here? are we talking about going back to masking in public. are we talking about another pound of boosters and when is t
Health association. Lets begin cawith the new booster that was announced by the fda and the cdc for covid 19. What should americans know about this . Thank you for having me with you this morning. Covid is still with us but we have much better tools that we have developed over the last 2 1 2 years. We know a lot more about the character and the way the virus functions and we have better vaccines and we have debtor therapeutics and weve learned a lot about how to protect ourselves and treat ourselves should you get exposed to the virus. If you get exposed today, what is the viruslike and is the booster needed . I think the booster is absolutely needed. Its an updated vaccine and, what happens for most people, we now know that users had some degree of protection because youve been vaccinated or you. Were exposed to the virus and you were infected. So, in that environment, the vast majority of americans do have some degree of protection but it wanes over time and that means that this upda
Health association. Lets begin cawith the new booster that was announced by the fda and the cdc for covid 19. What should americans know about this . Thank you for having me with you this morning. Covid is still with us but we have much better tools that we have developed over the last 2 1 2 years. We know a lot more about the character and the way the virus functions and we have better vaccines and we have debtor therapeutics and weve learned a lot about how to protect ourselves and treat ourselves should you get exposed to the virus. If you get exposed today, what is the viruslike and is the booster needed . I think the booster is absolutely needed. Its an updated vaccine and, what happens for most people, we now know that users had some degree of protection because youve been vaccinated or you. Were exposed to the virus and you were infected. So, in that environment, the vast majority of americans do have some degree of protection but it wanes over time and that means that this upda