on six-foot sticks. it is completely changed. the emergency phase of the pandemic is over. people know it. it is time to move on. laura: dr. battacharya, i was talking to one of our mutual friends. he said by his calculation, we could be at 94%, zero prevalence. explain what that means and why it could be significant? when the disease first arrived, no one was immune. no one had any exposure to it. it could cause severe disease. now, what 94 cyril prevalence means na a large fraction of the population is recovered from covid or has some protection due to the vaccine. that means that it is no longer an immune 90 population. the disease is nowhere near as dangerous to the population as it once was simply by the fact that the population has protective immunity to it. laura: dr. mccullough,
second immunization, fourth dose to the health-care workers to keep them in the workforce. so the data coming out of the cdc, published in the mmwr today, pretty much reinforces that. what is happening now about after two doses, still very after two months, still very strong after the third immunization. booster. but after four months, it is going down to 78% protection against hospitalization. 66 or so against emergency-room visits. still, very good but not as strong as it was. so, in israel now, they have decided to move towards fourth dose, second immunization for certain age groups. we might do that in the united states but i think your your more profound and probing questions is what s how are we how are we moving forward? is this going to be something in perpetuity we are going to need to boost every few months which could be pretty unwieldy and i think we just tonight know. we don t know two things. one, is this decline in immune protection due to the omicron