results from rapid home tests. that means the official covid case totals are likely a vast undercount. in other words, the officials are making health decisions in cases and hospitalizations climbing towards a pandemic high. what s driving the pandemic is the fact that we re probably diagnosing somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 10 infections. a lot of people walking around who don t know it and are spreading it. the former fda commissioner scott gottleib says omicron has peaked in new york and several other major cities. that s the good news. the concern now shifts to the middle of the country where the full impact of that variant has yet to be felt. congress is being confronted by the impact of covid. they return for the first time since covid cases exploded in the d.c. area. congresswoman aoc has tested positive and is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home.
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we are going to hear from president biden to start mourning the unvaccinated. i would like to point out supply chain crisis. hospitals are being overwhelmed. it was this administration that was pressuring those health care workers to get vaccinated or else be terminated. we are going to be in a position where we might have long lines at hospitals and we might be short-staffed at hospitals like we are everywhere else in the country. you had an administration that was threatening to turn to make that are recessional stomach essential not only for omicron, covid, but everything else. we should not be pegging our lockdowns and mandates on case totals. we should be picking them on mortality and death rates. if we have something we are living with that is highly transmissible but it s not killing people at the rate that we sell with the early versions of covid, that is an accomplishment. we should be moving forward with late understanding we are going to have to live with covid. stop bullyin
cat that does climb up but, yes, real tree. gotcha. charlie real tree all the way. all right, i m the only one. see you back here tomorrow at 5 p.m. eastern for identity if big big the big sunday show. molly line in for jon scott and the fox report. molly: a federal appeals court reinstating biden s vaccine mandate for large private company, setting the stage for a potential supreme court challenge from the public. good evening, i m molly line filling in for jon scott, and this is the fox report. molly: the ruling comes as the omicron variant continues spreading across the country and amid an overall covid surge largely caused by the delta variant. new york state, once the epicenter of the start of the pandemic, reporting record high single-day case totals for the
vaccination, mask mandates their case totals and the way they dealt with covid is the same or worse than those states like florida, tennessee or texas that chose freedom. so if what you are doing and these man tates if they re working so well, your state should be performing better than everyone, but it s not. so when are they going to wisen up and realize they re hemorrhaging residents. they are coming to all the free states because people are done living in fear of covid. they want to move on. they want to be free. and they want to breathe freely for crying out loud. carley: i couldn t agree with you more. i was reading president biden s fourth of july speech this morning. just to remind everybody what he said back in july. talking about the virus. he says it no longer controls our lives and no longer paralyzes our nation and it s within our power to make sure it never does so again. that was july. and what has happened in between then and now, more people vaccinated now we are deali