vaccines, but it is important as we go into the holidays we don t get complacent and personalize this for people still. 3,000 people in the first week, t the first week of december lost their lives. 30,000 hospitalizations and those numbers have been going up since december. we know that only 14% of eligible americans for that updated booster have gotten it. 14% live in areas in this country with high transmission, new york city, l.a. and one in five remain unvaccinated. the group weer seeing high levels of vaccinations are seniors, four times higher risk of hospitalization and data from september tell us individuals over 12 who got the updated booster, vaccine shot were 15 times lower 15 times reduced chance of dying from covid. an important chance to remind people, if you haven t gotten it we have time to build up antibodies between christmas and new years. i did a couple weeks ago, the
DHAKA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) The Bangladeshi government has said that everyone aged 60 or above will be offered a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine in order to boost
immigrants were found in the back of that dump truck just north of the border. meanwhile, tens of thousands are having their cases thrown out at immigration port because homeland security failing to file paperwork on time. that is according to dhs that appear this year more than 63,00 cases have been dismissed. president biden warrants that covid deaths this year will almost all be the result of americans not getting the appropriate booster shots. virtually every covid death in america is preventable. virtually everyone. almost everyone who died from covid this year will not be up to date on their shots or they will not have taken paxlovid when they got sick. the president touted his annual update of vaccine shot yesterday. biden has received a total of three covid booster shots since last september. and a couple of baltimore ravens rookies getting spooked out at
in the united states. many are having trouble getting an appointment for vaccine shot. mayor adams is asking that they delay the second dose. we take a moment to explain the threat of this virus and disturbing echoes of past public health failures. i started off with a few lesions. speech as the flu systems they became excruciatingly tingly painful. reporter: knowing exactly what it feels like to have monkeypox, matt is taking to social media to warn people about the virus. [ bleep ] sucks and you don t want it. reporter: his frustration is that even as awareness grows, those that need it might have a
frequent lightning. all of the major northeast airports will experience delays. in the south more record heat is expected in the lone star state with triple drijts in dallas, houston and austin. now to what seems like the never ending battle against covid. the highly transmissible ba-5 sub variant is behind a surge of new infections in the u.s. and for many of these cases are reinfections. cbs s meg oliver has more. reporter: a blunt message from the white house to all americans over 50 if you have not gotten a vaccine shot in the year 2022, go get one now. it could save your life. reporter: the urgency is due to the explosive spread of the latest omicron variants b.a.-4 and ba-5, now responsible for more than 80% of all new covid cases. ba-4 and ba-5 are our most immune evading variants yet. that s especially important as covid transmission is high in