problem. so what about guidance for people who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated? has that changed at all? should it? so what they have tried to say is that if you are vaccinated and boosted, then you only have to wear a mask, don t worry about quarantining if you are exposed. but if youboosted or not vaccinated, you still have to quarantine for five days if exposed. it is hard to remember all that. what the easiest thing to remember, that masking. i think that masking is going to be the key for about the next six weeks. we ll be dealing with this virus in a major way for the next six weeks. first of all, it is winter. you will see an increase in cases and hospitalizations anyway even if omicron wasn t here. plus you have omicron which is much more contagious. and you have a virus which is slightly off target from immunity induced by vaccine in terms of location gets mild disease. that will protect you from severe disease, but not as well against mild disease.
account for 90% of cases in some states. i mean, omicron wasn t here even a month ago and now it s the dominant variant. how concerning is this for people? well, it s absolutely stunning that we have a virus mutation, a variant, that could exceed even delta in its transmisibility, in its being contagious. clearly, clearly omicron has done that. and it s taking over. it s outrunning delta. it will, by the first of the year, clearly be the dominant strain across the united states in all corners of our country, i m sure. this is concerning. now, in addition to its contagiousness, there continues to be debate about how seriously ill this variant can make us. and there are data on both sides of the question. we shouldn t take refuge in the hope that it makes you less seriously ill. i promise you, this variant in an unvaccinated person can put that person sick, really sick,
people off and made them wonder and question was that omicron did not scene from you getting and spreading omicron which they told you it did last july. started getting and vaxxed and boosted your symptoms are less, really? how do i know? would it have been worse if my runny nose have gone worth worse would i have not go to the hospital. hospitalization rates going down in all 50 states rapidly as predicted and projected by israel, u.k. and south africa. that would have been people okay i understand that. we are all disappointed that omicron wasn t stopped by vaccine and booster. shouldn t have focused on the symptoms were less even though i didn t tell that. science has led many. we believe this is the last variant. instead he sits there and says the same thing. almost as if he is unprepared for the interview, which is true. ainsley: the relation don t make sense at all times more at risk can take their masks off. but the kids in school still have to wear them. brian: my predictio
10th said he thought inflation was at its peak. the quote was, i think it s the peak of the crisis. it was not. and remember very clearly our conversations over the summer when you were talking about inflation being transitory, it was not. are you being clear eyed enough about what s going on here? absolutely. i think the thing to recognize is that our team at the insistence of the president is focused on not just the month to month ups and downs, but on the underlying trends and there you have to appreciate the fact that but i m talking about underlying trends. the trends are not go ahead. reporter: and so that s the point. we re going to get some months better and some worse, probably when the president said that omicron wasn t going quite in the picture yet. so the virus still upon the land. we are reacting to real data just like we got here today. this data tells us that we have to continue to press on every effort we can to unsnarl supply
government here at stormont have had a virtual meeting today where they have received the latest briefing from their scientific advisers about the covid situation in this part of the covid situation in this part of the uk, and until very recently, it had been the case that omicron wasn t spreading here quite as rapidly as in england and scotland, certainly, but that has now changed. ministers were told that more than 90% of covid cases in northern ireland are now accounted for by omicron. the daily case numbers today say that 4700 or thereabouts positive cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours, meaning the infection rate has never been higher throughout the whole course of the pandemic. the number of people in hospital with covid is also rising. it went up from 277 to just over 300 in the last 24 hour is. however, those hospital admissions are not rising at the rate that would be necessary in ministers view to