Medical workers are getting this first dose of the vaccine as we speak protecting themselves against what will still be a long, deadly, and for them exhausting winter. Theyre sending a message to the rest of us that this vaccine is safe and it will save lives. A new online poll from abc news shows that more than 80 of americans are willing to take the vaccine. Although a large percentage say they dont want to be among the first to do so. Frankly most of them will not have to worry about that. Right now there is only enough doses to inoculate a something number of the most vulnerable americans. But the time line is getting more optimistic. Dr. Anthony fauci said the General Public could start getting shots in just three months. I have been saying my my calculation that by the end of mark, the beginning of april, that a normal healthy man and woman in the street with no under lying conditions would likely get it. There is still so much work to be done until that happens. The task of prod
but the university come i say dr. fauci but with 2.37% rate in super house hospital rate, the university todd: all right, jp, daniel, ezra meyer we appreciate your time. sorry you are going through this but we appreciate you being here. fox news alert now. charter bus migrants expected to arrive in washington. take a look at your screen right now. that is a live shot of the bus in d.c. and texas governor greg abbott made a promise to send them from the state to president biden s doorstep. carley: before they left texas if you stop to snap sophie s of the unfinished border wall. congressman james homer got back from the border and will tell ue right now.
city and joining us restaurants, having events, having weddings and all of a sudden this throws a whole wrench. ainsley: here we go again. if it s such an emergency why does it go in effect next monday. we re not sure about that. we had asked for metrics back during the pandemic because we never knew when we were going to be shut down or go mask or vaccine and but those metrics were mostly based on the omicron variant. the virus has changed. our behavior has changed. you know, we re the one of only 67 counties in pennsylvania that have a mask mandate. the only city in the country with a mask mandate. you know, we want people back into philly. we want people back joining us at restaurants this is just going to hurt. ainsley: the virus has changed. you were telling me during the commercial break about the hospital rate. right now in philadelphia, we have 54 folks in the hospital. that s in a city of 1.6 million people. you know, we have 100 about
doing again. the e.r. is seeing a spike in kids and parents seeking testing and bogging down triage for the desperately ill. we re suing mild conditions, known covid exposures and a lot of them are really seeking testing. reporter: like previous waves, the sickest kids, those needing hospitalization, are having a tough time breathing. so they are getting a lot of respiratory symptoms as we ve been expecting. pneumonias, needing respiratory support to then them both better. viral spread expected to spread. the problem is with so many kids and children infected, own if 9% hospital rate is lower,
leana wen. doctor, what can doctors do to treat some of the patients with these factors? i think we re still learning so much about long-haul covid. we don t know the exact incidence of this, how common it is, but it is something we need to be on the lookout for, not so much at identifying individuals with higher risk, because a lot of people have type 2 diabetes, as an example, but it s more to be on the lookout for these symptoms should someone come in, for example, with overwhelming fatigue or shortness of breath or other symptoms that linger after their covid infection. dr. wen, big picture now. looking at the omicron surge and where we are, there are a lot of good indicators in parts of the country that got it first, new york area, washington, d.c. area, that it did go up quickly but it s coming down relatively quickly, too. but also that the hospital rate from omicron appears to be lower than prior surges. should folks watching right now take some comfort that they ll see som