thankfully, hospitalization rates per cases right now are much lower than we have seen in prior waives. he also could have come down on the fda about expediting getting these antivirals to the market. the fda has been sitting on them. they have up to 90% ability to keep people out of the hospital if they are given early on in the course of disease. he could have talked about removing cloth masks for children. come down hard on the schools that are close and keeping children out of school again and he eliminated quarantines and reduce the post infection. all of this would have been much more helpful. instead, he continued to focus on vaccination and boosting in the low risk population, this is a group think mentality of the cdc and white house. listen, vaccines are the building blocks of our immunity. natural immunity continues to add to it so does the boosters, so does the treatment. all needed to move forward as a country chooses not to be
even though they knew variant typically results in less serious illness. i think what we had to think about more is having a virus that is going to be and, we re going to have to be regularly ready to deal with it and to be able to manage it just like we do with the weather. an even bigger problem than the virus right now is the nationwide hospital staffing shortage. there s also fallout from the fda decision today to approve booster shots for children as young as 12 years old. the move was made without any input from a panel of vaccine advisors, leading critics to attack the biden administration are not following normal scientific protocols on vaccines. we don t have enough tests to be testing, everybody and look at where they are directing tests to schools. the lowest risk population on earth. a tweet directly naming president biden saying approving the booster for young kids is a slap in the face to science and undermines the integrity of the fda standard process. gillian.
week saying, at this point these masks on children are really for optics and it s time to remove these masks as they are not really decreasing transmission all they are doing is having some negative impact on the i children. the best thing you can do for your child is if they have chronic medical conditions is to get them vaccinated after a discussion with your pediatrician. i can tell you just based on the cdc data alone, over two-thirds of children have already been exposed to under covered from covid-19, that is our lowest risk population. and about 10-15%, may be more are vaccinated. op s extremely low risk population. already has a lot of surrounded immunity within themselves. it is time to remove the mask and focus on providing high-quality masks to high risk individuals. you would think that targeting those at the highest risk would be the priority. i m toggling between covid-19 and joe biden saying that he wants to run again if he s doing
we ve got cal berkeley law professor john you and immunologist, thank you to you both. doctor, let s go to you first. i want to talk about schools and testing. a lot of public health officials now including dr. mcgarry are saying this universal testing for schoolkids is becoming wasteful, that essentially we are using a whole lot of tests, tens of millions of tests, on a low risk population that really could be better serving high-risk populations like the elderly or the immunocompromised. what do you think? well, in general i agree. i think that these tests unfortunately are very volatile and what i mean by that is you know, you can take a test one minute and the next minute you can sort of acquire an infection from wherever you are. i think in general it s a good idea to actually limit this high-risk population and people who are actually some dramatic so that we can actually
alumnae and donors are calling to see why they are throwing people into solitary confinement. princeton you can t leave the county. cornell, you wear masks outdoors. why are we waging martian law in the lowest risk population on planet earth. judge jeanine: when you talk about the lowest risk population on the planet, they are requiring these young people who are low risk and vaccinated to even get into school wear masks on top of that. they have gone overboard. you go to a lot of these places and you realize there is no end in sight. we have to stop having the cdc and public health officers ajude kaight on every aspect of