mark, good morning. appreciate having you on. help us understand first, how we got here and how there is a chip shortage and relying on chips from overseas impacts americans. well, we used to produce a lot of chips, 30 years ago one of third were produced in the united states but over time, manufacturers moved overseas because it was cheaper and now we only produce ten, maybe 15% of global chips, which is a problem evident in the pandemic, if you go back a year ago, when the delta wave of the virus hit, it knocked out a lot of chip plants in asia and when those chip plants shut down, it shut down a lot of activity. you can see it in the vehicle industry. the vehicle companies couldn t get chips and couldn t produce cars and saw a collapse in inventory. that s a part of why inflation is as high as it is today and the tensions with china have intensified in recent years,
this administration is the covid-19 pandemic. so she specifically was asked about these projections that there could be as many as 1 million cases due to the omicron spike. we re going to see a dramatic increase in the coming days and weeks and the vice president really wanted to remind everybody she feels we have the tools necessary to fight the most important parts of this. severe hospitalization, illness and death. but she was also then asked about where the personal responsibility is and whether truly the unvaccinated have more to answer for or more to be blamed. and take a listen to how she responded to that particular question. is it the fault of the unvaccinated? i don t think this is a moment to talk about fault. it is no one the fault that this virus hit our shores or hit the world. i would not blame it on anyone in that way. but it is more about individual power and responsibility, and it s about the decisions that
three people who know this story well. thanks to all of you. we appreciate it. our next guest has been educated the public about covid since the beginning and then the virus hit his own family. a very personal story and the lessons in that for all of us, next. us, next em. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin that s a trail i want to take. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk better than warfarin. and has less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis has both. don t stop taking eliquis without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don t take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking, you may bruise more easily or take longer for bleeding to stop. get help right away for unexpected bleeding, or unusual bruising. it may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical
and saw it in the whole uk. now, we re seeing it, first, in the north least, where the virus hit first in the united states. but now we re even seeing it where i live in san francisco. so, it seems clear that this is what it does. it comes through a population like a hurricane, goes up, it takes about a month. comes down, takes about a month, too. and the problem i think, as it starts to come down, people may let their guard down but the risk is still very high until it reaches the bottom of the mountain. so after it s at the peak, you still have about a month of fairly high risk until you get to a low-risk situation. and i want to talk about vaccinations. a lot of people here in the united states obviously have access to a booster dose. but children under the age of 5 still can t get a covid vaccine. initially, dr. fauci said a pfizer vaccine could be approved next month which gave hope to my friends little kids and classes
hope that we could see the same in the u.s. any time soon. a tremendous amount of hope. i think when we had saw the south africa curve go up like a rocket and then come down equally quickly the hope was that that would be the pattern that we would see elsewhere. then we saw it in london and the whole uk, and now we re seeing it in first in the northeast where the virus hit first in the united states, but now we re seeing it where i live in san francisco. it seems clear that this is what it does it comes through a population like a hurricane and goes and takes about a month and comes down and takes about a month, too. and the problems i think as it starts to come down, people may let their guard down. but the risk is still very high until it reaches the bottom of the mountain. so after the peak, you still have a month of fairly high risk until you get to a low-risk situation. what could a post-omicron world look like? i think it s going to look