very little data, especially regarding the by veil yent omicron booster. we have antibody production data, don t have data on anything related to mortality, long covid, serious infections or hospitalizations and for children we have zero data, they re referencing adult data. with lack of data, how are they making the decisions? laura: the never ending emergency, you called it early on. watch for the emergency to continue long past the emergency. that s when you start asking hard questions why it is in place. dr. hemmati, thanks so much. we gave raymond the night off for his book tour. we have a surprise guest to take us through the wildest stories of the week. stay with us to see who the surprise is. z ray s a1c is down with rybelsus®. i m down with rybelsus®. my a1c is down with rybelsus®.
hospitalizations on the increase again. thank god. the omicron subvariants are less powerful but they still can get you. if you haven t had a covid shot in six months or haven t had covid in three or four months, please get that booster. especially if you are in a high risk group. steve: i was talking to somebody at walgreen s the other day and they said they can actually give you a shot in each arm, you can got the flu shot and omicron shot same sitting. absolutely. and it s completely safe to do that by the way. get your shots out of the way and be protected against severe disease. i can t give you a s rsv i can protect you against flu and covid. get those shots, please. steve: all right. good advice. doctor, thank you for making a house call today. thanks, steve. steve: all right, meanwhile. janice dean joins us. i woke up today and it was winter. janice: yes, it does feel like winter. there is no snow on the ground. if you do live in new jersey you
1300 people have died from the flu and hospitalizations are doubling every couple of weeks doctor siegel, let s not be ambiguous with the people r5067ing right now. they should get the flu shot, right? no question about it. pregnant woman by the way flu shots are down in pregnant woman. you are doing a two for. protecting yourself and protecting your unborn child. nothing worse when you are pregnant than the flu. the flu effects you badly. but the flu shot is completely safe. steve: and finally, cefd is still out there too. we just saw joe biden and his team meeting in indonesia. people wearing covid masks. people should get the omicron booster, right? many chron booster covers of the new subvariants but also gives you protection for all the subvariants and a couple more coming out. and seeing cases on the increase again.
peter: i believe this will be his fifth shot. steve: wow. brian: is that going to be a record. steve: that s as many shot as ainsley had on the beach dancing. [laughter] brian: are you allowed to have five shots? steve: is he president. he can do anything broo. peter: fourthor fifth shot. i know he was recently infected with covid. brian: which should give him natural immunity. steve: now getting the new omicron specific shot. peter: he is 79 years old and they are the numbers the vaccination numbers for this most recent omicron booster they rolled out are much lower than they would like. they are going to try to get him out there just to raise some awareness. steve: sure. speaking of awareness, peter, when the president goes out and we know he was at that dnc event yesterday. and he talked mega maga. obviously what is he trying to do as the leaf blower guy gets louder in the background. obviously what he is trying to do is remind people of donald