i think the country increasingly knows it is not going to work and they know if you are getting a virus variant from south africa from which nobody is dying, why are we panicking? this is just like the common cold or like the flu. we don t panic every fall when the flu season starts. and i think we have to get over it, move on and recognize that for over a year our elites on a worldwide basis led by people like bill gates and dr. fauci, have followed a strategy which has caused more damage than the virus itself. bill: another topic quickly the vice president did an interview of the wall street journal. one quote that sticks out. when asked about running for reelection in 2024. i will tell you this without any ambiguity, we don t talk about nor have we talked about reelection because we haven t completed our first year and we re in the middle of a pandemic. a lot of people thought it was
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vaccinated. neil? neil: thanks, molly. you keep hearing this con days goes but less dangerous. when referring to this virus variant. to tom price on the significance of this. secretary, good to have you back. you know, there s still so much we don t know about omicron, particularly how it hits certain countries, but even there, the cases don t appear to be nearly as severe as some had feared. what do you make of what s going on and the news that already available treatments and booster shots might go a long way toward alleviating how bad this gets? exactly. with this new variant, the omicron variant, as you ll recall a week or two ago, there was a lot of discussion that we need time to learn more and we learned more. the fact of the matter is that it appears that it seems to be increasing in its trans miss ability, easier to catch.
Since November 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) has reported a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in London and southeast England. This rapid increase in cases has been linked to a different version or variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).
numbers of hospitalizations they have had in the pandemic. yes, you want to be vaccinated, but the good news here is if you want to take care of delta, it will also take care of only krofnlt basically we know right now that this virus variant may actually evade some. i mun protection from either vaccination or previous infection, but even the early data out of south africa tells us that if you are vaccinated you have a much less likelihood of having serious illness, hospitalizations or deaths so i think, again, this is one you take care of one, you take care of the other. i do want to know you keep mentioning vaccinations, and i completely understand y.there are the trend lines there are better, not fantastic but certainly better. the seven-day trend line up 76% from a month ago. it does seem like the availability of boosters and talk of omicron has people getting more vaccines and the percentage of people, new fully vaccinated americans is up 96% from just a month ago, so you do