wide-spread testing and those are the critical measures right now, lindsay. yeah, hopefully we don t see lines like that anymore. dr. roy, you talked about those unvaccinated and at this point is it accurate to call this a pandemic of the unvaccinated? well, so i m glad you mention that, lindsay. what people are hearing, particularly people who remain unvaccinated is they are seeing positive cases or infections among people vaccinated and those are breakthrough infections, and they are translating that to say the vaccines don t work, and that s untrue. the vaccines significantly reduce the transmission, and masking is going to be the critical step in preventing the transmission. i want the president to repeat
lindsay. happy sunday to you. in your intro you were talking about how the impact on professional sports league, and as a diehard hockey fan i was anticipating the game last night when it was canceled because so many players on both teams were placed on covid protocol. same thing is happening in the nba and nfl. what is happening in professional sports leagues is what is happening in the communities, 1,300 deaths per day, and the cdc predicts omicron will surpass delta in a number of weeks. what we want to hear from our federal leadership is vaccines and boosters specifically are going to be critical in helping us contain the pandemic. masking when indoors is going to be really critical. really regular testing,
the message, lindsay. it looks like new york city is once again becoming an epicenter here and you created a lot of waves of one of your tweets is the positivity in new york city doubled in three days. what do you think the priority should be right now? thank you for having me on to discuss this issue. this is an incredible challenge. this strain of the virus spreads so much more rapidly than the previous strain does. one thing new york city has in its favor is the high rate of people that have gotten those two important doses but the priority is to make sure we get the additional dose into everybody. if people don t receive that they don t have near the protection we need them to have. that s number one. number two, we know the city has a number of structural challenges to make it more difficult to weather a pandemic
vaccine mandates, and 5,000 demonstrated in london and police officers were hurt in a confrontation with protesters. what steps is the government taking there? reporter: good morning, lindsay. the government here had been reluctant to impose any new measures beyond having to wear a mask at large venues, and the situation here is not good. london has become the epicenter of the omicron variant and cases of omicron in this country are doubling every 48 hours. there s been a massive surge of covid cases in the country as well, and there were 90,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. however this morning the health
members, and we have a national responsibility as well and i have confidence joe manchin will understand and we will find the agreement there to be made. make no mistake, joe biden is in charge. manchin and kyrsten sinema are also standing in the way of voting rights legislation. for more on what this gridlock means for president biden s agenda, we turn to josh letterman in delaware. josh, what do you make here of all of this latest news happening? lindsay, it started at $3.5 trillion, got cut in half, and the priorities is a question mark heading into the new year. while the reality is that while the white house says they are