dr. fauci who defended the logic. travel bands with a highly transmissible virus never completely we get the virus to prevent it from coming into the country, no way that will happen. what you can do you can delay it enough to get us better prepared. that is the thing that people need to understand. u.s. health officials are determining whether it abates protection from vaccine. the white house is pushing americans to get their shot and boosters. the national institute of health director francis collins says a vaccine worked up against previous variance and boosters will be a strong protection against delta given the history they expect the current vaccines will most likely be sufficient saying they remain the best line of defense. there s a lesson here come on america we missed the chance to be at a much higher level of vaccination across the country that will put us in a stronger position. if omicron is one more wake-up call then let s wake up. president biden says he does no
mandate at this time despite existing mandates being tied up in the court. jon: jacqui heinrich traveling with the president. among those criticizing the president s position to impose a travel restrictions. the former commissioner of the fda scott godley who tweeted there is too much we don t know to impose economically, socially ruined policies on south africa and other nations. ready, fire aim is not public health policy. vaccine and testing requirements for incoming travelers could be prudent, outright travel bands can hurt more than help. let s bring in washington examiner, editor-in-chief. there is that question if the band is going to be effective in preventing the spread of the new variant in this country. why are they not imposing until monday. that s a great question. this follows a patent of the
shh! i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. deals for days. what about rob s dry cough? works on that too, and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long? mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs. howard: a tsunami of headlines about a new virus variant first detected in africa and today s new york times a growing list of nations on alert, washington post , variant detected as travel bands may be too late. is the media rushing to judgment? michael emanuel chief washington correspondent and of course the media has to cover president biden banning travel from eight south african countries, but is the sheer volume of stories unnecessarily scaring people at a time when scientists just don t know much about omicron? i get a sense a lot
agree with that but the travel ban makes no sense to me. there was the case just identified in belgium of this variant, a traveler from egypt. if it is there it is already out there. the travel ban didn t work before, the lockdown didn t work before for things presumably most infectious than this variant, why would anyone think they work now. all the travel bands will do is cause distress and harm for no good purpose. i think the key thing, good public health message, there s no reason for panic, this is something we are tracking. this is an are in a virus which it gets very it all the time and most of them don t take off to infect everybody, not every variant is like delta. most of them produce no affect, they have a little blip up and go away. we should be giving people that
that spreads very easily and thus the global pandemic, trying to put travel bands in place to try to stop and isolate ourselves to what end, what purpose? and the president says we have to do this just in case or to be safe, it hasn t worked before. it is not likely to worse now and it causes harm. that means it is bad policy. it is already further along in places like belgium and travel from egypt. what makes the president or anyone think this travel ban would work? what we should be doing is the kind of policies that protect the vulnerable that is quite important, make sure the vulnerable are vaccinated. make sure antibodies are in place to treat patients to do covid and the rest of society open schools, start to address the fear and panic in the population as opposed to stoking it which is what people are