The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. All things Michael Chone and hes doing quite a lot of talk ing. Jake. Jeff, thanks so much. Lets talk to our experts. Laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. I dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. Start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. Before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
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individuals who had the two-dose vaccine. this is validated by the clinical data which shows the vaccine efficacy as we all know from previous studies of a symptomatic infection of a two-dose mrna wanes over time. however, there s a moderate to high effectiveness about 75% seen in the early period after a booster dose and very likely higher when it comes to hospitalization and severe disease. next slide. a quick word now on something that jeff mentioned. mainly the treatments that are available. unfortunately, but understandably with the degree of mutations that we have with omicron, some of the monochronial antibodies will not
severity and i ll explain in a moment. next slide. no doubt this is a highly transmissible. this is the latest data from the omicron variant that is in the united states. it is now about 73% plus. speaking to governors from other regions of the country, in some they re even as high as 80 to 90%. so, there is no doubt that we are dealing with a highly transmissible virus for the reason as jeff mentioned just a moment ago that we expect that there will be continuing to have a substantial increase in cases. next slide. now we get to the idea of severity. these are data from our south african colleagues who clearly have been showing now in conversations we had and now in this recent publication that, in fact, it appears that in the context of south africa, there is a decrease in the severity compared to delta.
a higher risk. i ll stop there and back to you, jeff. well, thanks, doctors. with that, let s open it up for some questions. kevin. thanks, jeff. let s try to get through as many questions as we possibly can. first, let s go to peter sullivan at the hill. hi, thanks. i wanted to ask on the supplies of the new pfizer treatment pill, there have been some experts calling for the administration to just do more to increase supply. for example, enlisting other manufacturers the way merck is helping make the j&j vaccine so you re not just relying on pfizer s capacity alone. have you considered that at all or is there more steps, you know, the administration can take to boost the supply? yeah, and i might also have dr. fauci talk some about the synthesis process which takes months to do. we know the pfizer team is hard
part of the administration s commitment to equity, we re also distributing antiviral pills, pfizer directly to federally qualified community health centers across all 50 states. and that will ensure that these life-saving antivirals are available at some of the most vulnerable, in some of the most vulnerable communities and hard-hit populations across the country. over to you, dr. fauci, for the medical part of this. yeah, jeff, and it is obviously a very difficult situation when you have a limited supply. for that reason, we ve asked the nih guidelines committee to put together a recommendation of when someone comes in with an acute infection and is in a risk group, which is what you want this to be for since we have a limited supply that we would have a prioritization of what the best approach would be. it almost certainly will be a physician writing a prescription