Forecast for the total eclipse just in a new our of Cnn News Central starts now not only can you see it, but you can feel it if youre in The Path Of Totality, tens of millions of americans are preparing to see a total Solar Eclipse. The dramatic celestial show set to begin just a few hours from now and the United States, bracing for the real possibility of a wider war in the middle east, iran vowing revenge for an apparent israeli airstrike right that killed top iranian commander and another big attempt at clearing Student Loan Debt, the Biden Administration unveiling details on a new plan they say could benefit more than 30 million americans. On sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. This is Cnn News Central this morning, the existential question, if there is a total Solar Eclipse in the sky, but it is too cloudy to see does it make a sound . We are just about t minus six hours to show time. Everyone scanning weather reports to figure out if they will get a view roughly 32 gil
i think we should have done what israel has done. so we ll see. we re going to be in for a pretty rough ride, and how we keep all of that together, that confluence, that storm of rise in hospitalizations and you re hearing hospitals where you ve got half the workforce out. don t forget, everyone is already exhausted and according to some firms, we ve already had an 18% depletion in our health care force even before this. right. that s important to recognize. we had a health care shortage shortage of health care workers well before the covid virus showed up and we have not lost jobs in that industry for decades. we keep on needing more health care workers and now we need to get more than we did before that. thank you for these important warnings. dr. peter hotez. many republican senators are devoted to the fossil fuel industry and vote accordingly
on the vaccinations and masking. there s also news, dr. hotez, about the antibody treatments, monoclonal antibody treatments currently being used at hospitals. the two most popular ones don t seem to be as effective at battling this variant. that s pretty concerning, because the one that is the most effective, we re hearing hospitals are running out of pretty quickly. yeah, no, when we saw the mutations in the spike protein, many of us thought that was the first thing that would not be effective, is those monoclonal antibodies, because they only recognize very specific elements of the spike protein or the receptor binding domain. those are the parts that are being heavily mutated in the omicron variant. so you re right, both the regeneron and the lilly monoclonal antibodies don t seem to be very effective.
set that was released on thursday that we re not talking enough about. that still the vaccines are 90 to 95% effective against going to the hospital. 88% effective against symptomatic illness. the vital importance of getting vaccinated. and if you live in a place where you re hearing hospitals are packed or brimming up. i was just down in clark county, where their icus are filling up. their test rates for covid are filling up, that you should also mask up. and regardless if your medical conditions, regardless if you ve been fully vaccinated. because the chance you could get exposed in the community is higher. but if you re like president biden in philadelphia where hospital rates are low, test rates are low, vaccine rates are high, get vaccinated and live your life. dr. vin gupta, thank you very much for coming to this saturday show. after the break, the gop tries to flip the script on the january 6th hearings. congressman eric swalwell joins me next to discuss. ngressman eric swal