medicine. she was part of a panel that advised the biden transition team on covid-19. she hosts a weekly podcast on the impact of coronavirus called epidemic. dr. gounder, it is good to see you again. i want to get your sense of this because you and i have been talking throughout the entire pandemic about the pattern of it. when we saw omicron start in south africa, we saw it a steep ramp up and then we saw a steep drop off. and seesaw that elsewhere. america s bigger. the geography is larger. it s more complicated. how do you process where we are in this continuum and how we re responding? i think we re going to see a spike up and spike back down here in the united states with respect to omicron transmission. but there are as you point out very important differences in terms of the demographics of countries like south africa, a much younger country. many of their immunocompromised
of the gate in the spring with a lead. still has the lead six months later. and he has the lead after so many flubs. after answers in debate that, if you were trying to evaluate his syntax and grammar you d need a super computer to diagram it all. or a record player. he s had one of the weakest performances i ve ever seen a front-runner have in any nominating contest and yet he remains in the lead by quite a bit. the other thing this poll shows is there are four candidates and then everybody else. there s biden, warren, sanders, buttigieg and then a steep, steep drop off. and what happened to kamala harris? it s going to be interesting. frank makes a great point. i m really looking now to see who has the best ground game. we can poll a thousand people which is about what these polls do and say, well, what are our attitudes? what do you care about? at the end of the day, it s all about the ground game and who is going to get out there. elizabeth warren is killing it across iowa. p