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and south africa says that s essentially what they are witnessing in real time. i think this is like the scope of the vaccines regarding omicron, but interesting enough, it s more disease, and that is what was also what was always been said, it s to protect you at least between 94% and 96% and hospitalization, if i look at the facts, in the public sector hospital the majority and i know it s 90-plus of people in the icus are unvaccinated people. we want to get straight to cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, this seems like good news. tell us more about pfizer s data. reporter: ana, it certainly is good news. i think there was a lot of fear that because omicron has so many mutations on the spike protein that the vaccine wasn t going to work very well. and the vaccine certainly takes a hit, but it still is protective it appears against severe disease. before i talk about the data that pfizer has, i know that people listening are th ....
so, yes, you could say to be protected of omicron you really need a three-dose series. that s the way we should look at it, three doses is what you need. even with all the attention on the omicron variant it is still the delta variant that is leading to a new surge in america right now. right now the united states is averaging 118,000 new cases per day. that s up 61% in the last month. here are the important metrics. more than 62,000 americans are hospitalized with covid, an increase of 36% in the last month, and 1,500 americans are dying each day from the virus still. the u.s. death toll now approaching 800,000. joining me right now for more on this news coming from pfizer is cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. thank you for being here. the two-dose regimen of pfizer may not hold up against omicron. but adding a booster improves efficacy dramatically according to the company, the antibody level rising 25-fold. what s your reaction to this? cautiously very op ....
over. i m harris the faulkner focus and you are in the faulkner focus . cnn fired chris cuomo on saturday after court documents revealed he use sources to help his governor brother out of a sexual harassment scandal and now a new sexual harassment allegation against chris has come to light. for now the accuser is not known publicly and cuomo s spokesperson is denying the claim. however, just a hint at how cozy the elite media can be. they kept chris after this laundry list of controversies. he was caught shouting at a man who called and said it was the n word for italian managing to offend everybody. he got into a spat with a neighbor who called him out for breaking covid quarantine. he was out and about sick with covid. he also got priority covid testing thanks to his brother, the governor then. not just for himself but for his family. and his former producer at abc news accused him of sex harassment. that was the second woman. cnn media analyst last week said chris ....
his country. there s a new documentary shining a light. let s begin this hour with the future of reproductive rights in america and the battle brewing. should the supreme court uphold mississippi s abortion ban, gutting the 1993 decision that legalized abortion, reversed five generations safe abortion access, which would leave those rights to each state in our union. and that is the battle we want to focus on this sunday. here s how the associated press frames it. as the supreme court weighs the future of the landmark roe v. wade decision, a resurgent anti-abortion movement is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles while abortion rights supporters repair to play defense. proponents of abortion access claim they are prepared for the state by state fight and are devising multiple ways to help women seeking abortions travel to states where they can receive them. but republican leaders have plans of their own, and they are ready to pounce. if roe v. wa ....
she s going to expand on that tonight on this program. also, exclusive reporting from donie o sullivan on how the social network, facebook, makes money on the anti-vaccine message. this comes at the end of a day that saw seven new cases of the omicron variant identified and underscores the need to get on top of the situation. it prompted pfizer s ceo to tweet that his company has asked the fda to expand authorization for booster doses of its covid vaccine to include 16 and 17-year-olds. quoting from him, it is our hope to provide strong protection for as many people as possible, particularly in light of the new variant, he said. now, when he posted that, there were two new reported cases. one in minnesota, the other in colorado. late today, new york added five new cases. today also saw president biden visit the national institutes of health just outside of washington and unveil new covid fighting policies. they include fighter testing requirements for travelers coming ....