these risk assessments, the president is making it as well, choosing not to be there for the eating portion of the evening. doctor fauci has said this is exactly what we need to do to pivot to this more normal era of this pandemic, as we re still dealing with. it you have said that strategy, in the past, is going to buy come back to bite us. would he mean by that? heavy changer notion on? that i m not going tonight, but it s for a lot or reasons, including our don t have an invite, which is fine. i m sorry, i thought you were going. i ll be honest, and this gets to the heart of your question, for me it is a very difficult decision, even though they re doing vaccine proof, testing, i just have that ballroom, 2600 people, that is something that i am personally not comfortable with. however, i do think there s ways to do this safely. when i talk about this off, line you can do the safely, you can make sure that the people around you, if they re in
we need to get boosters out to people, that has been shown to be a significant difference in people being hospitalized or critically ill and those who are able to say that this is a more mild illness. we re still woefully low. the second is pushing out therapeutics, we haven t gotten a lot of attention on this because we ve been talking so much about testing. testing is important. you can t test out of covid but with so many people getting covid we have to be able to have access to early therapeutics, the monoclonal antibodies that work against omicron, these things are available but they are in short supply and unevenly distributed depending on what state you are in. what s even more important is getting vaccinated. across the world there are some european countries that have now made vaccinations mandatory if you want to take public transit, eat out and go to a show. in quebec adults who aren t vaccinated could be fined. that s driven up the numbers. we also know that in canada y