ultimately. it s going to have to go to the court for now biden s efforts to increase vaccination through the mandates and different sectors are on hold which means not happening. yeah. you know, it s interesting i think there s two ways to look at this. on one hand the announcement of the rollout weeks ago, months ago, i don t mean when it was now, had an impact on vaccinations. a lot of people got vaccinated. they re like, i m going to get vaccinated, i m going to do it. to that extent he s accomplished quite a bit. in this final push and as you see with new variants coming on line, it matters what is the percentage of vaccinations. he s hitting a snag at multiple levels in courts, in states, from a couple folks in his own party. and the polling gives some clues as to why. when you ask people generically or r vaccines a good idea, most people, not most republicans, but most people, most americans say yes, most independents say yes. when you ask people should health care wor
regina bessette mccain, medical director at baylor college of medicine. thank you for your time. i want to put out the data elizabeth shared from pfizer. two doses maybe not, you might still get a breakthrough infection. three doses pfizer says should protect you against omicron. as we are trying to learn about the new variant, what does this tell you, and does it leave any big questions that you still think need to be answered? absolutely, john, there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered. we have to remember that these are still preliminary reports and preliminary data. omicron was just discovered a little under two weeks ago. so scientists and researchers are really putting the pedal to the metal in order to figure out how omicron is going to work. but they need collect more data. it does look like our current vaccines will protect against severe disease, and that ultimately is our goal. it s to keep americans from dying and to keep people out of the hospital. so
shut down a month ago. we re nowhere where we were last winter, horrific winter, before vaccines were widely available. what does it tell you when you see cases and hospitalizations up and sadly the death toll still climbing we will soon reach 800,000 in this country covid deaths. people have got to remember that this pandemic is not over. no matter what we want to think, no matter the messaging that comes from certain political parties. we have got to stay vigilant and have got to do our part in order to curb this virus. everyone needs to get vaccinated. if it s been six months since your vaccine or two months since you ve gotten the johnson & johnson vaccine, please get your booster. furthermore, if you are around people in an environment where you aren t sure what their vaccination status is, please wear a mask. social distance if you can. americans are dying. we have got to do what we can to stop the pandemic. is your view i want to come back to the case map right now just
there might be a better word, as we wait to find out the important new information, as talk about, how transmissible is it, does it grow into something more serious than what we ve seen. we re still dealing with delta now. as you look at the map, you see a lot of red especially in parts of the country that are higher covid transmission, it s delta driving that right now. yes, new omicron cases, but most cases are still delta. and if you look at it from that perspective, just shy of 120,000 new covid infections yesterday, doctor, the seven-day average of move to infections up 60% from november 1st. then you look at this hospitalizations going up, as well. again, there is delta pushing us late fall, into the winter. 62,000 americans hospitalized. i want to put this map up of hospitalizations. even as we try to study omicron and decide where we re going to be a month from now, two months from now, three months from now, today you have maine at pandemic hospitalizations high. michigan