may test positive despite being asymptomatic and may not get to enter china or, if they test positive again while being asymptomatic, may be quarantined in china for a considerable length of time before going home to their home nations. i was going to say, you were setting forth a prescription. i mean, you, like, have a plan as to what ought to take place. lay it out. well, i don t know that i have the specifics of it, but clearly vaccination is the key here. and we might as well call it what it is. this anti-vax stuff is a belligerent idiocy and flies in the face of everything we know. we can debate the efficacy of masks and whether kids should learn virtually, but the evidence of vaccines is overwhelming. hospital rate, serious illnesses and deaths lean heavily in the direction of those unvaccinated.
well, i don t know that i have the specifics of it, but clearly vaccination is the key here. and we might as well call it what it is. this anti-vax stuff is a belligerent idiocy and flies in the face of everything we know. we can debate the efficacy of masks and whether kids should learn virtually, but the evidence of vaccines is overwhelming. hospital rate, serious illnesses and deaths lean heavily in the direction of those unvaccinated. now, what to do about those who are vaccinated. especially healthy young fit athletes. adam silver in the nba have always been forward looking when it comes to this. as you said, they were the first league to shut down. they got through the 2020 season successfully in a bubble. so they are not backward looking on this. but adam silver said this is going to be with us for a while.
variant. that may change how we get together for the christmas holiday. we ve seen cases really explode in south africa. it s already here. community transmission, and we still need to learn a lot more how it s going to affect our country and the people vaccinated, those unvaccinated. at this point i m still planning to travel but that could change at any moment. according to a uk health security agency report this week more than half the people with confirmed omicron cases in the uk had received at least two doses of a covid vaccine, but no one died and no one was hospitalized. what does that tell you about the efficacy of these vaccines against that new variant? well, we should not expect that vaccine protection should be an on or off switch. expect people have vaccine induced immunity especially if boosted should have protection.
of patients needing intensive care treatment are unvaccinated, pregnant women with covid. the royal college of midwives says pregnant women have a higher risk of becoming seriously ill from coronavirus. nhs england found that betweenjuly and september, out of 118 people who needed the most intensive kind of life support, 20 were pregnant women, with 19 of those unvaccinated. one of the women had received a single dose of a covid vaccine. with more details on the findings, here s our health editor, hugh pym. we ve been trying to have a baby for a long time now. i can t believe we re still both here, to be honest. it s not long now and he s going to be in the world. claire is reliving her covid ordeal injuly, seriously ill when she was 26 weeks pregnant and then on a ventilator in intensive care 12 days. i thought i was going to die and i thought he was going to die and we d waited so long for this
what s being done is not right, moral, or just. we have spreading herd immunity in this country. we have a lot of people getting vaccinated. that s a good thing. people who are vaccinated don t have to be afraid of those unvaccinated. the politicians want us at each other s throats on all things. that have politicized this science and virus. i m disgusted with all of the tyranny. they talk about we may have a short-term government shutdown sometime in the future. you think the sky was falling. or you shut down hospitals or schools and you shut down the private sector and gyms and bars. that s a righteous thing. so be it. again, a double standard, i m personally sick of it. brian: the other situation that i want to address right now is what s happening with lieutenant colonel, marine colonel stu art schellier. he decided to call out the military leaders because they let him down after multiple tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. they put him in solitary