specifically about the substance of that speech and what the administration is promising including half a billion free at home testing kits and more aid to overburdened hospitals and the guidance from the president that the vaccinated should not change their holiday plans. today, the president appeared defensive over the persistent problems in testing. he also told the tens of millions of unvaccinated americans that getting these lifesaving shots was their, quote, patriotic duty. but if there was one them he kept returning to, it was that progress has been made in the fight. we should all be concerned about omicron but not panicked. and no, this is not march of 2020. 200 million people are fully vaccinated. we re prepared. we know more. we just have to stay focused. a lot to cover tonight, including as i mentioned o you are our discussion with the cdc director but let s start with cnn s athena jones on where we are right now. we re really not seen anything like this bef
presidency? almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. and i honest to god believe it s your patriotic duty. the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. here s the alarming truth for the president. the people who should be the most concerned about this new omicron wave, they aren t. the vaccinated in america are more scared of getting covid and falling seriously ill than the unvaxed. illustrated by this new survey from the kaiser family foundation. 52% of vaxed adults say they fear getting very sick from coronavirus. that s s10% more than the non-immunized, who ought to be the most concerned. and according to a kaiser count, no speech from president biden or threat of death is going to sway 48% of the unvaxed. about half of the adult holdouts in america say nothing will convince them to get immunized. nothing. so, now what? pray it away? you would hope omicron would be a wakeup call for the
the news continues to let s hand it over to michael smerconish. michael. john, thank you. i am michael smerconish. welcome to cnn tonight. we heard the president lay out his omicron battle plans today. he s once again telling americans not to panic while urging the unvaccinated to stop putting all of our lives in danger and just go get the shot. but what makes him think he s going to reach them this time almost one year into his presidency? almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. and i honest to god believe it s your patriotic duty. the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. here s the alarming truth for the president. the people who should be the most concerned about this new omicron wave, they aren t. the vaccinated in america are more scared of getting covid and falling seriously ill than the unvaxed. illustrated by this new survey from the kaiser family foundation. 52% of vaxed ad
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The news continues to let s hand it over to michael smerconish. michael. john, thank you. i am michael smerconish. welcome to cnn tonight. we heard the president lay out his omicron battle plans today. he s once again telling americans not to panic while urging the unvaccinated to stop putting all of our lives in danger and just go get the shot. but what makes him think he s going to reach them this time almost one year into his presidency? almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. and i honest to god believe it s your patriotic duty. the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. here s the alarming truth for the president. the people who should be the most concerned about this new