this covid surge and the need to treat people for other very real medical issues they typically go to the hospital for? that s exactly right, i got a family member who is e.r. resident in chicago, tells me just how difficult it is when someone comes in with pain, appendicitis, and now a good number of hospitals delaying or postponing elective surgeries, whether it s women needing mammograms or cancer therapy that may not be able to be given swiftly and quickly, so this is really setting up a situation where if you re not vaccinated, i mean you have to really get it at this point in the pandemic that the only way to take care of not having to be a victim, if you will, in an emergency room waiting long hours is to get vaccinated, is to get boosted and also, phil, i think the cdc had it right on the isolation guidelines even though a lot of medical analysts are upset, because if you re asymptomatic then you actually feel fine, you
new year kick off with millions more americans. now eligible for a booster. the fda hours ago giving a green light for children ages 12 to 15 who have already gotten both doses to get a third dose of pfizer. the agency also shortening the window there. you remember with adults you had to wait six months past your second shot. well, it s now five months. that i a nounsment cops as the highly contagious omicron variant has upended the start of 2022 for millions of americans. travel, you ve heard a lot about, but it s not just travel being disrupted. for some kids the return to school after the holidays, kids and staff, i should say, also being impacted. cases just exploding as you can see on that graphic there. child hospitalizations are also up, and as we know hospitalization numbers are key here, and now dr. anthony fauci noting that soon the cdc may change some of its isolation guidelines and recommend an infected person test negative before they return to places like work.
where things change over time, you have to come back in and make adjustments, and so the problem that they have is that while that may be true, they seem to be making adjustments very quickly. i mean, if they announce something and then the following week have to clarify like their isolation guidelines, for instance, and you hear different things from different faces of the administration where dr. fauci came out and said they were going to fix it, they were going to clarify this, whereas the cdc director dug in on saying that they didn t need to test after the guidelines. some of this is self-inflicted and some of this is just the nature of a problem like this, means that they re going to have to revise some of the things they re putting out as they learn more. the problem is they don t have the confidence from the public to make those revisions and have people believe that that s they re necessary and that it s not just the cdc making a mistake again. look, i don t know how this
cdc, and she s been pressed after the decision to relax isolation guidelines just as covid cases hit record numbers. the question is did she provide assurance that the agency can, in fact, be trusted? and fully vaccinated. it s currently defined as two doses of either pfizer or moderna vaccines or one dose of the j&j. the question, is it now time to redefine that term? and ghislaine maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking for her role in recruiting teenage girls for jeffrey epstein. the question this morning, is the case closed? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is really ready to close out 2021. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 30th, the penultimate day of the year.
maskless at a miami restaurant. according to a statement, the congresswoman is experiencing symptoms, is recovering at home and received her booster shot in the fall. john, we are reporting it, and you can decide how you feel about that. she was obviously highly criticized for not only, not only going maskless but going to a state where she was very critical of the policies, the covid policies there, and now she has covid. john: tim kaine, the senator proved i-95 is the great equalizer, everybody gets stuck in the snow. and alexandria ocasio-cortez is proving covid is the great equalizer, anybody can get it. even if you do or don t take precautions. centers for disease control is plagued by messaging issues, and the new isolation guidelines and now the director is failing to provide basic information on covid death data when pressed yesterday.