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it s a little blue planet. it s far more than that. the context of the earth and the universe is something that needs profundity. more william shatners, if i could say that. if i could be so bold to say that. it requires poetry. i have never been so angry that i do not have a second hour of television right now. i m so thankful to have you come on. thank you for sharing your experience. thank you so much. inside politics with john king starts right now. hello, everybody, and welcome to inside politics, i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. important omicron news in the last hour. the fda says it s okay for 16 and 17-year-olds to get a vaccine booster shot, and omicron provides another giant covid question, will you soon need a fourth shot. new and breaking news this hour, a source confirming to cnn the new york attorney general wants
transmission, which is a giant slice of the country, and i want to do one other map and bring it up here. this is icu, intensive care units in the satate of new hampshire. 46% of icu beds are covid patients where we re going to need help from the national guard, what does that tell you about delta? delta is our current enemy, and until and unless it s replaced by omicron, let s not worry so much about omicron. delta is killing on average t 1,200 americans every day. in about a week, we re going to pass a grim milestone of 800,000 deaths in the united states and we need to be on a wartime footing because we are at war with an enemy that s killing 1,200 americans a day. and i just don t see it. you know, still 18% of american adults are unvaccinated, and that s who s going to die from this virus, whether it s delta or omicron.
neutralize omicron, and so i think we re going to have the tools going forward to keep omicron under control. i m hardened by the fact that it does appear from places like south africa that folks who are getting this virus seem to have a milder course with it. we ll have to verify that in greater numbers, but the message going forward is you re protected if you re fully vaccinated but the message also should be you re not fully vaccinated unless you get three doses. we re waiting to see if the government changes that official designation to the third dose. as we do, we re talking about protection against omicron at a time delta is changing the map in ways that are quite disturbing. we have 45 states trending in the wrong direction. more new covid infections this week, the deep red in those states, maine, massachusetts and connecticut, al of these others, that s 50% more new infections this week than last week. if it s red, if you re part of the country, your county is red, that means
Omicron was marked as a variant of concern due to its high infection rates by the WHO, prompting countries worldwide to enforce new travel restrictions