but the president said yesterday that he doesn t think covid as we know it is here to stay. listen. i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing and continuing to develop that ll contain covid and other strains of covid. finish. david: dr. ahmed is a senior fellow at the independent women s forum. doctor, great to see you again, thank you for being here. we ll get to the mixed messages in just a minute. but first of all on omicron itself, we saw in south africa that it was kind of like a wildfire. it burned very quickly through the population but burned out fairly quickly as well. is the same likely to happen here or has it begun happening already? so south africa gives us a great template, you re absolutely correct, and we do expect this burden of infection is go
Roar it can look for alternatives. let s bring in darla rum foe, president and ceo at children s scholarship fund which has helped over 300,000 needy kids get scholarships. darla, thanks for being here. how badly are school closures hurting our kids? oh, it s very bad. if you look at chicago, schools were doing poorly before covid, but now if you lined up five third graders from chicago, only one of them would be able to read proficiently. monopolies we have a government-run monopoly in education, and what the pandemic has shown us, that this nation needs more schools that are not run by the government. you look in chicago, nobody s talking about the fact that 230 kids were killed, homicide, during the period of the pandemic e. only 12 died of covid-related
Of hospitalizations and deaths and though i believe a majority of that population was not vaccinated. exactly. so 70% of south africans didn t have advantage end seen. here we are 62% nationwide and over 70% in new york state. and you re absolutely right, there s a strong decoupling of the number of infections and the number of hospitalizations. so very few people who are catching the infection immediate hospital level of care or even outpatient level of care. so that s true. we re seeing a different kind of covid-19. we refer to it at nyu as an incidentalal covid-19. i am allowed to tell you that 65% of people across our hospital system that have covid-19 are actually admitted for some other reason. they come in for various other reasons, we screen them and we find they re positive. so people are not shareing manifestations of the disease, but we re going to start learning about that. with president biden i don t engine his job.
Vanguard. become an owner. david: welcome tothe journal editorial report. i m david asman in for paul gigot. covid-19 cases fueled by omicron, continuing to spike all over the country with the u.s. smacker previous records for nes amid an ongoing testing shortage and increaseing frustration over mixed messages from the administration. some former advisers calling on president biden to shift his focus from defeating the virus to learning to live with it.
But the president said yesterday that he doesn t think covid as we know it is here to stay. listen. i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing and continuing to develop that ll contain covid and other strains of covid. finish. david: dr. ahmed is a senior fellow at the independent women s forum. doctor, great to see you again, thank you for being here. we ll get to the mixed messages in just a minute. but first of all on omicron itself, we saw in south africa that it was kind of like a wildfire. it burned very quickly through the population but burned out fairly quickly as well. is the same likely to happen here or has it begun happening already? so south africa gives us a