[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [cheers and applause] kayleigh: welcome to fox & friends on this beautiful saturday morning. what an appropriate way to start out the new year with the national anthem. it is january 1st, 2022. i am wishing all of you a happy new year. if you are up, i fully expect most of our viewers are sleeping in because they stayed up past midnight but not us here on fox & friends. joey. joey: no, i have to admit i enjoyed a good football game last night. might have been up a little bit later than i needed to. i might have heard the gunfire in georgia as the new year came in and some fireworks went off. hey, listen, we are here right now. i have got all the energy i can need after that win yesterday. i m ready for a great four hours of fox & friends. hey, listen, if you have a new year s resolution, email them to us at foxnews.com. friends@foxnews.com.if you are . mine is to finish
having a hard time finding covid tests. a problem that could last into 2022 and now many public school districts say they will require covid testing for students and staff. let s go to our experts that we have with us this evening dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor and former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir. welcome to both of you. thank you for having us. mike: from the new york times the u.s. breaks single day record hospitalizations and deaths however have not followed the same dramatic increase in the last two weeks. deaths are down by 5% with the daily average of 1221. while hospitalizations increased by just 15% to an average of 78,781 per day. while you obviously want to track cases, dr. saphier, are hospitalizations and fatalities really more meaningful metrics? well, absolutely. as of right now, as you can see, we really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is impre
nearly 500,000 cases in a day. the guy who promised to shut down the virus, joe biden, he s been on vacation on the beach with the doctor and the dogs. not a care in the world all weeklong. he left america s little king dr. fauci in charge. the good doctor claims he is following the science. he is science after all. since he is science, it makes sense since we learned that king fauci makes more in his annual salary than joe biden. the real president is running the show in washington, d.c. all kidding aside, fauci is speculating wildly. watch this. there is a danger that there will be so many people who are being isolated who are asymptomatic for the full 10 days, you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running. the decision was made, although it s not completely risk free, of saying let s get that cut in half. pete: i am not sure what that means or what science that is based on. the decision was made to cut it in half based on king fauci. it
but first, it s truly been a long year of constantly changing restrictions, new mandates and of course hypocrisy from democrat leaders. president biden: if you ve been fully vaccinated, you know longer need to wear a mask. it is important for everyone, regardless of vaccination status to wear a mask. we are implementing the strongest vaccine mandate in the country. i m leaving my mask down while i m enjoying my food. i m not putting it on and taking it off, putting it on. the fact that this is even a story is sad. lisa: let s not forget the year of deception after we were promised this promised this. president biden: i m not going to shutdown the economy. i m not going to shutdown the country, but i m going to shut down the virus. lisa: but instead we got this. of president biden: there is no federal solution. this gets solved state-level. lisa: and of course this gem. president biden: you re not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. lisa: t
the guy who promised to shut down the virus, joe biden, he s been on vacation on the beach with the doctor and the dogs. not a care in the world all week long. he left america s little king dr. fauci, in charge. the good doctor claims he is following the science. he is science after all. since he is science, it makes sense since we learned that king fauci makes more in his annual salary than joe biden. the real president is running the show in washington, d.c. all kidding aside, fauci is speculating wildly. watch this. there is a danger that thereh will be so many people who are being isolated who are asymptomatic for the full 10 days, you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running. the decision was made, although it s not completely risk free, of sayingy let s get that cut n half. pete: i am not sure what that means or what science that is based on. the decision was made to cut it in half based on king fauci. it should be 5. right on cue, f