time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. it was dead back in may. it was dea in june. it was dead in july again. all i ve heard is how it s dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. new polling from the washington post and abc news shows vaccine hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the delta surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. just about half of what it was in january. it also comes as president biden s approval rating has dropped. that s down about 10 points since june. senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. we re not worried about poll number numbers. we re worried about the people in louisiana and new york and nj nmg. this has never been a president who worried about himself. he really worries about the country. let s go to heidi at the white house for us. heidi, welcome to you. is the white house concerned that when extended unemployment benefits end, it will hurt the
philadelphia. covid it seems has taken another turn for the worse. at first, scientists believe the highly contagious omicron was less severe than delta. but a new study from disease modelers at imperial college london not yet peer reviewed found that omicron is not any less severe. and at the risk of being reinfected of omicron is 5.4 times higher than with delta. and ultimately, an omicron specific vaccine will be needed. the epidemiologist who led the team study said, quote, this study provides further evidence of the very substantial extent to which omicron can evade prior immunity given by both infection or vaccination. this level of immune invasion means that omicron poses a major imminent threat to public health. omicron already having huge impact. the covid numbers are skyrocketing. and so are the number of changes in our lives. cases in texas, connecticut and hawaii, all up more than 50% from last week. the northeast, midwest and south are seeing the fastest jumps wi
Philadelphia. covid it seems has taken another turn for the worse. at first, scientists believe the highly contagious omicron was less severe than delta. but a new study from disease modelers at imperial college london not yet peer reviewed found that omicron is not any less severe. and at the risk of being reinfected of omicron is 5.4 times higher than with delta. and ultimately, an omicron specific vaccine will be needed. the epidemiologist who led the team study said, quote, this study provides further evidence of the very substantial extent to which omicron can evade prior immunity given by both infection or vaccination. this level of immune invasion means that omicron poses a major imminent threat to public health. omicron already having huge impact. the covid numbers are skyrocketing. and so are the number of changes in our lives. cases in texas, connecticut and hawaii, all up more than 50% from last week.
Post-labor day weekend? i m also very worried about what will happen because of the dual realities. people are interested in gathering with friends and family and celebrating the holiday coupled with 55 million children expected to be back in school the middle of this month. in some ways we re seduced by wishful thinking and some level of complacency. i think it s worth emphasizing that we re not done with this. nobody has a krystal ball and the disease modelers have been recurrently wrong on many occasions.