landscape is changing we have to do our best to make practical decisions about vaccines and boosters for yourself and your family members, about testing and what s your strategy to keep you and your family members safe around the holidays. oles, what are you going to do if someone in your family is positive? what are you going to do and how are you going to approach it if you or someone you love needs a treatment? the treatment landscape and the vaccine landscape and all of these thing are very much in flux, but the good news is the experts can help us understand them, and none is so complex that we as a layperson can t understand it. we have dr. david kessler, a science adviser to the biden administration s covid response, and dr. kessler, thank you for make the time for
collapsing on itself. but, knowing we ve got all those tools, it doesn t really shake the feeling. it doesn t really shake the déjà vu. joining us now is doctor david kessler. he s been a frequent source of guidance for the show. is the top science adviser for the biden administration s covid response. doctor, it s always an honor to have some your time. thanks for being here tonight. thanks for having me rachel. we ve talked a couple of times in the last couple of, weeks about the emerging body of knowledge, that can help us understand, the current state of the pandemic. the affects of this new variant. the omicron variant. we now know that it is the majority of the covid that is circulating in the country. do we know more about the effectiveness of our vaccines against it? do we know more about whether it is less severe, less likely to cause severe illness in people who do get infected? omicron is among the most highly transmissible respiratory viruses in our memory.
Omicron variant of COVID-19 The vaccine industry is alert and ready to respond to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 should it enter the country. Along with the Philippine medical community, it reiterates that the public can still receive ample protection from it through current and future anti-varia
over the last year, and scientists say without reductions in global greenhouse emissions, this cycle will continue to worsen. professor will steffen is a climate change expert and researcher at the australian national university, who has served as the science adviser to the australian department of climate change and energy efficiency. even under the most ambitious emission reduction these events appear to be happening with greater frequency but also greater ferocity as well. frequency but also greater ferocity as well. why is that? it s ferocity as well. why is that? it s because ferocity as well. why is that? it s because there s - ferocity as well. why is that? it s because there s more - it s because there s more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere, it traps more heat so the lower atmosphere is becoming more energetic which means when the storms form such as tropical storms or fires, they are in an atmosphere that
shot, a milestone biden hoped to reach by july 4th. the u.s. reported over 800,0 0 new shots were administered yesterday, making it the fifth straight day with over 700,000 shots in arms, still far from peak levels. amid a renewed push to get more people vaccinated, the pandemic is once again consuming biden s agenda. we re not going back to the shutdowns of march of 2020. we re not going back to the economy shutting down. we have made too much progress. reporter: after getting briefed today, the president will give a speech on the pandemic tomorrow and meet with a top science adviser on wednesday to prepare for future pandemics. with hospitalizations increasing, the cdc director is warning of how contagious the delta variant can be. if you get sick with the delta variant, we estimate that you could infect five other unvaccinated people, more than twice as many as the original