person almost likely will mean no symptoms or mild ones similar to the common respiratory viruses. over 200 million americans should have the peace of mind that they did not have in march of 2020. today president joe biden aaddressed the nation on the omicron coronavirus variant as the administration faces a unique challenge at this point in the pandemic. they want people to get the booster shot because the data show that your vaccine immunity does decline over time. so if your shots were six months or longer ago, a booster shot helps restore it. that can help a lot against omicron based on some of the data we re seeing. at the same time the white house does not want to down play the importance of vaccination itself, because the one consistent takeaway we have is that the vaccine, the normal vaccine course does not just reduce transmission, it also is our greatest protection right now against serious illness and death from the virus. in this week that is more important than ever beca
and that of course includes getting vaccinated, getting boosted and practicing those prevention measures regardless of whether you are vaccinated or boosted. and this is wearing a mask in public and outdoor settings. one of the problems folks have had is not having access to quality mask. and also the access to testing for group gatherings, holiday dinners, and stuff like. that it does feel like the capacity, and again, i know that the doubling time is nuts. i have watched it myself. i have never seen anything like. it i have never seen an infectious disease do with this disease is doing right now in new york through the just in terms of the transmission. but it does seem like the capacity that we have, new york is a very strong infrastructure for testing. and it has not kept up in the spikes in cases. at the worry is that, you know, when it comes to pieces that have less of a public health infrastructure that new york city, that is going to be a
of the data we are seeing. at the same time, the white house does not want to downplay the importance of vaccination itself. because the one consistent takeaway we have is that the vaccine, just the normal vaccine course, does not just produced transmission. it is also our greatest protection right now against serious illness and death from the virus. and in this wave, that is more important than ever. because omicron is causing outbreaks even in highly vaccinated places. one example that is in denmark, that is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world. 81% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. 36% is boosted. to give you some context of how high that number is, here, about 66% of the eligible population effects unaided, and 30% disgusted. so it s a very vaccinated place. while in denmark, they are in the midst of the worst wave of the virus that they have ever seen. since this whole thing started, averaging over 5000 new cases a day. in a place of the population in
ranking woman in the rigging administration, they both join me now. linda, i want to start with you, i have noticed something, just in interactions with, people people and social media, about kyle rittenhouse, it s a little bit of a wedge among conservatives, it s similar in some ways to the vaccine. there s a lot of conservatives that are like i m a trump, person and i hate the, liberals i don t like fauci, but i got the vaccine, and then there s people that are like no it s a secret plot. with kyle rittenhouse, i have seen, there s a lot of concern, people are like obviously we should not be celebrating with this person did. it s just common sense, and i am astounded, i mean i know it exists. but i am astounded, that that is not the obvious consensus view of people on the american right. i agree with you, by the way, if this kyle rittenhouse, the tucker carlson charlie cook kyle rittenhouse, had been the