that. we have covid strains circulating six weeks. they could have done a quick ram dom mizeed control trial. pfizer made $100 million on the covid vaccine they could have done a quick trial. bret: there is a lot we don t know. we don t know really the stats. they don t seem to match up, even today after all that we have been through. that s right. there s a lot subject to interpretation because some people point to statistics that are massively inflated. we know that the hospitalization numbers are not real we know the covid death numbers are not real. bret: why do you say that. half the numbers. we don t know who is in for covid versus incidental covid positive test. when you test positive when you are in there for another reason like heart failure you get a stigma, a label that goes down as a covid hospitalization. bret: we as a country have not delved into the problems with vaccines, right? other countries have. i know germany had a big study but we haven t. that s righ
question. all of the states in red, orange, purple, they have high or very high levels of flu. and you ll notice that s almost the entire map. there are very few states that are not at high or very high levels. now, here s a tiny bit of potential good news, which is the flu hospitalization numbers are going down. you can see starting back on the week of november 27th they are starting to tick down a bit. but, wolf, let s talk about what time of year it is. we ve got the holidays, people are traveling, people are gathering. it is quite possible that we could see those numbers go back up when the cdc releases new numbers in the next week or two. do we usually see a spike after all the holiday gatherings? you know what s interesting, wolf, with flu it s so hard to tell because flu usually isn t anywhere near peaking in late november or early december at such high levels this early is
really have. by the way, when you listen to dr. jah, dr. fauci this morning, i think they re getting closer and closer to authorizing these boosters for people under the age of 50. let me show you quickly, jake, this graph. when we look at who s most at risk, it s no surprise that people who are the oldest are at risk. the top line peaks those are people over the age of 75. then the next two lines below that are people in the ages of 65 to 74, and then 50 to 64. so people over the age of 50. those are where you see the peaks. people younger than 50, it s pretty flat in terms of the incidence of death in people who are vaccinated. so the point really is that everyone has pretty good protection with things as they are, but the people who are most going to benefit from the booster based on that data are people over the age of 50. so that s the risk/reward proposition they re trying to determine here. dr. fauci says he s paying close attention to hospitalization numbers because they re t
to how fauci can say one day it is on, the next day off, the next day on. he s been using the wrong date of the entire pandemic and that data they are using his total hospitalizations, picking up a lot of incidental positive findings because hospitals do mask pcr testing of everyone who walks through the door so that number is north of 68%, 62% and yet they continue to cite the overall hospitalization numbers. the public is really getting a glimpse of the use of dogma and even dogma in science as political propaganda over rigorous scientific studies. let s be honest, many of the controversies that have been debated the entire two years could ve been answered in one week with a good, solid, rigorous studies for the nih has $42 billion, dr. fauci could have answered the question about circus transmission versus airborne transmission when people were pouring gallons of alcohol-based solutions on their mail and groceries.
numbers low. but they mean something different than they did a year ago. they mean something different because people are vaccinated and boosted. they mean something different because we have a lot more therapeutics available. we have to change our behavior and respond in a different way as the pandemic evolves. i think at this point responding with care and caution but not overreacting is critical. one of the ways we have changed our behavior, thanks to a federal court ruling this week, is there are no mask mandates on planes, on trains, on buses. you mentioned that deaths are at their lowest rates. hospitalization numbers are better. many airlines and transportation systems did follow suit and lift their mandate. so, take aside the legal dispute right now. do you believe a federal mask mandate on transportation is necessary? so, let s go back to about ten days ago when the cdc scientists asked for a 15-day extension. why did they ask for that? all the stuff we ve been talking abo