first of all we do have. we expected a big delta wave that would be hitting us around this time. we were looking at a pretty severe delta wave injanuary, that is because we have under vaccinated our us population. we have still only vaccinated about 60% which means 40% are unvaccinated, still lots of holdouts and we can talk about why, but then when he can to 0micron, based on what happened with alpha and delta, where there was a four to six week lag between the peak you were seeing in the uk from the time and picked up in the united states, we once again thought we had four to six weeks, meaning it would happen in the middle ofjanuary, and unfortunately, it looks like that is not the case. it is now gearing up now. tragically, we are going have this combined wave hitting us during the holidays, and then the third piece to this, which not a lot of people talking about, but one that i m quite concerned about, even
let s put all of this into context now with professor peter hotez the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine in texas. he was asked how worried we should be about omicron over the festive period. we have a few things going on at the same time. first of all we do have. we expected a big delta wave that would be hitting us around this time. we were looking at a pretty severe delta wave injanuary, that is because we have under vaccinated our us population. we have still only vaccinated about 60% which means 40% are unvaccinated, still lots of holdouts and we can talk about why, but then when he can to omicron, based on what happened with alpha and delta, where there was a four to six week lag between the peak you were seeing in the uk from the time and picked up in the united states, we once again thought we had four to six weeks, meaning it would happen in the middle ofjanuary, and unfortunately, it looks
against severe illness. let s put all of this into context now with professor peter hotez, the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine in texas. he was asked how worried we should be about 0micron over the festive period. we have a few things going on at the same time. first of all we do have. we expected a big delta wave that would be hitting us around this time. we were looking at a pretty severe delta wave injanuary, that is because we have under vaccinated our us population. we have still only vaccinated about 60% cut which means 40% are unvaccinated, still lots of holdouts and we can talk about why, but then when he can to 0micron, based on what happened with alf and delta, where there was a four to six week lag between the peak you were seeing in the uk from the time and picked up in the united