contract them. right now infants under six months are being hospitalized at seven times the rate of rsv than they were prepandemic. that can t be explained by an immune gap. what can explain it is that studies have shown that pregnant mothers pregnant with covid deliver infants with higher levels of an inflammatory marker that impact their health long term. or mothers that contract covid deliver inwants with lower lung volumes than others. so there are a lot of things at play here. that s really interesting. can you talk about the ways these three viruses spread as people go from these big holiday gatherings, back to the workplace, back home. they don t all transmit the same, correct, the flu, rsv and covid? correct. for the most part, these are respiratory viruses, but viruses such as covid spread via airborne particles, whereas with the flu we re looking at respiratory droplets.
hesitates. i don t want that child to miss out on education. we ll keep evaluating as we go along. after a lot of our kids, i m a parent, my kids went to new york city public schools, some kids went a year and a half without being in a classroom. that s extraordinary setback for those kids. we can t let that keep happening. that s why i thought it was important, every child is welcomed, that s pushed vaccination for the older kids, 12 and up, it is over 80% now vaccinated. i think we re going to get there with younger kids. i m trying to give parents a sense of urgency. this is not the fall, this is the winter. we see covid go up in winter. big holiday gatherings. omicron, it is time to get vaccinated. if omicron were waiting a week to find out if it is more severe, if it turns out to be less severe, how will that impact this, will you re-evaluate. we talked about that exact scenario. more cases on top of delta, delta is very virulent to begin with. what our doctors said, if you
it was clear the president made a decision and was very close to revealing a decision. that didn t happen last week. maybe it has so much do with so much going on in the white house. there, again, is an indication that it could happen this week. our plans to predict timing on this has not been good so far. who knows. we ll see. to get to why it s so key obviously and right before the holidays, inflation such an issue on people s minds, and the federal reserve which controls monetary policy can do a lot to help out with inflation along with other areas of the administration like the treasury department. i think going into the holidays, inflationary pressure, if it s not already on everybody s mind is going to come top to the surface, people traveling, buying food for thanksgiving dinner, for big holiday gatherings, not to mention all the christmas presents people are will be buying and issues they may run into, not getting