i believe they have. i don t have the list. i thank the chair. bill: senator kaine. thank you, dr. fauci, can you provide us a general breakdown of what percentage of hospitalized individuals are vaccinated versus unvaccinated? and what percentage of covid deaths are among vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals? thank you, for that question, senator kaine. one of the ways to answer that question would be to look at people who are in the hospital and take a look at if you are vaccinated versus unvaccinated. if you look at vaccinated versus unvaccinated, there is about a 10 times greater chance that you would be infected if you were unvaccinated. about a 17 times greater chance that you would be hospitalized if unvaccinated and a 20 times likelihood that you would be
to see whether the tests they re buying actually detect omicron? i believe they have. i simply don t have that list. okay. thank you, chair. senator keen. dr. fauci, can you provide a general breakdown of what percentage of hospitalized individuals are vaccinated versus unvaccinated and what percentage of covid deaths are among vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals? thank you for that question, senator kane. one of the ways to answer that question would be to look at people in the hospital and take a look at the you are vaccinated versus unvaccinated. if you look at vaccinated versus unvaccinated, there s about a ten times greater chance that you d be infected if you were unvaccinated, about a 17 times greater chance that you d be hospitalized if you were unvaccinated and about a 20 times likelihood that you would
is an extraordinary divergence of risk between a vaccinated and unvaccinated person. if you look at vaccinated versus unvaccinated, there is a 17 times greater chance of being hospitalized and a 20 times greater chance of dying if you are unvaccinated, versus vaccinated a 20 times greater chance of dying. meanwhile, the u.s. reported a highest daily rate of covid infections in the world. covid hospitalizations also up 83% over the last two weeks. but scientists are also seeing good signs signs that the omicron wave may have peaked in the uk and at the same time may be about to happen here.
years into the pandemic, and our children are starting to show they re not immune to covid-19. to protect your children, we see those vaccinated versus unvaccinated as far as the kids 12 to 17, ten times more likely to end up in the hospital if you re unvaccinated. and a teen with covid-19 is not worth the risk. meghan, you re there in chicago. that city is becoming the latest to require people to be fully vaccinated to go to restaurants and bars, gyms. other indoor entertainment venues. what are you hearing from folks there about this change as omicron spreads? well, craig, you know, there s a lot of mixed reaction. we ve been speaking with business owners, some say they re frustrated. they believe the mandate puts the burden, the owness on them to enforce this mandate, leading to possibly some more contentious moments with customers. even alienating some. there s other restaurant owners who say look, we remember what it was like a year ago when we couldn t have people inside the
to get out of isolation. let s take a look at what the cdc, what their guidelines are now. now they say five days of isolation, you have covid, but if you re asymptomatic, or your symptoms are resolving, isolate yourself for five days, and aft five days wear a mask and no test is necessary to end the isolation. it will be interesting to see if they require a test, also interesting to see if they come up with different rules for vaccinated versus unvaccinated people, and also they might come up with different rules for people who were essential workers versus those who were not. health care workers already have a completely different set of guidelines, and health care workers, i mean, hospitals actually can on their own say you know what, this is a crisis. we don t have enough people weaver getting rid of guidelines all together. it will be interesting to see if they move in that direction for other types of essential workers. victor, alisyn. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. let s