“This is a full-on wave almost like omicron,” Dr. Peter Hotez tweeted over the weekend, referring to the variant that sickened more than 800,000 people in a single day at its peak.
hospitalizations. two-thirds of americans over the age of five are fully vaccinated, 68 million of those folks have received their booster shots. joining me now from greenwich hospital in connecticut is antonia hilton, gary grumbach is in the nation s capital and also joining us is dr. peter hotez, the director of texas children s hospital center for vaccine development. connecticut s governor announced the state would distribute 3 million test kits, 6 million n95 masks. how are they rolling all of that out and is it going to be enough? reporter: well, joe, frankly the rollout hasn t gotten off the ground yet. as you mentioned they wanted to have millions of n95 masks, those 3 million at home test kits to give out for free to residents and people who work this connecticut all around the state. the goal was to have that launched today, people were going to pick up supplies early this morning, bring them back to
the cuff remarks. would you want to do, sentenced everyone in the country? the answer was yes. you should do that. here s the thing. look at the uk. that is a place that has instituted both of those policies. has one of the highest booster rates. in the entire. world has a lot of testing. . that has not stopped in omicron outbreak. in the, and that s with things look like. when you look at the country that has deployed boosters a rapid testing better than we did, they are still having insane outbreak. that is the inescapable reality of the contagious-ness of this new variant and the world in which we live. for the future suitable future. doctor peter hotez is the dean of the national school of medicine. co director of the texas children s hospital center for vaccine development. author of preventing the next pandemic. vaccine diplomacy. active commissioner of health
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