hospital cases that are likely to see from the unvaccinated population. look, let me address three specific updates before i get my full debris from my team. first, booster shots. my full debris from my team. first, boostershots. i my full debris from my team. first, booster shots. i know doctor fauci i am like an echo chamber here. but repeating myself with what doctor fauci said very clearly. booster shots work. they significantly increase protection and provide the highest level of protection against 0micron. americans, we have given out over 70 million booster shots. importantly, 230 seniors received their booster shots. booster shots are free, safe and available. 0ver are free, safe and available. over 90 thousand vaccination sites for that let me say that again, free, available and at over 90,000 sites.
from the surge of hospital cases that are likely to see from the unvaccinated population. look, let me address three specific updates before i get my full brief from my team. first, booster shots. i know dr. fauci like an echo chamber here, okay, i know it, but repeating myself what dr. fauci said very clearly, booster shots work. they significantly increase the protection, they provide the highest level of protection against omicron. americans, we ve given out over 70 million booster shots, importantly two out of three eligible seniors have received their booster shots. booster shots are free. they re safe and available. at over 90,000 vaccination sites. let me say that again. they re free, available, and at
we can to protect communities from the surge of hospital cases that are likely to see from the unvaccinated population. look, let me address three specific updates before i get my full brief from my team. first, booster shots. i know dr. fauci, i m like an echo chamber here, okay, i know it. but repeating myself, but dr. fauci said it very clearly. booster shots work. they significantly increase the protection, they provide the highest level of protection against omicron. americans, we have given out over 70 million booster shots. importantly, two out of three eligible seniors have received their booster shots. booster shots are free. they re safe and available. over 90 at over 90,000 vaccination sites. let me say that again.
white house health policy director. dr. patel, you heard the surgeon general say the worse is yet to come. how bad do you think it could get over the next couple of weeks? chris, i think a majority of the country will continue to see increasing cases and we could see daily cases topping a million. they ve probably really are at over a million because of underreporting, we don t have the actual numbers, but that puts us as a nation kind of going through omicron surges in various parts of the country until the end of the month and then, of course, it doesn t mean that it declines to zero, chris. february will be a rough month, too, as hospital cases trail the actual positives. so as we re talking about omicron pushing hospitals, heidi, we have mother than two dozen states including maryland and virginia who are really having trouble keeping up with the patient load, and there s also some controversy involving an executive order by the just sworn in virginia governor. tell us about th
hospitals in wales, scotland and northern ireland have all been facing similar pressures, as this winter wave of the pandemic passes and more people seek treatment. jim reed, bbc news. 0ur health correspondent, nick triggle, says there is also concern in the nhs about the government s decision to end all covid restrictions a month earlier than planned. a lot of the experts have been expressing concern and surprise that move. 0ne called it either brave or stupid. the theory is that it could push up the impact on rates. the number of infections we are seeing are still very high. the government surveillance programme estimated one in 19 people in england was positive last week, although hospital cases are still falling. 0ne last week, although hospital cases are still falling. one of the fears is it could leave people feeling under pressure to return to work, for example, before they are recovered and perhaps when they are