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0 laura ingraham takes it from here. high laura. how are you doing, judge? you did a great job. is at 5:00? it s 5:00 somewhere. your time it s 10:00. got to stay up late. great job and great to see you as always. i am laura ingraham and this is jan one on a busy tuesday night. the united states of fear is the focus of tonight angle. the press and the party that they represent want you to be afraid. i am talking very afraid. covid sub variants are here. they are super-duper contagious. consider changing your travel plans if you are thinking of attending big events. i can tell you it s more variance specifically subareas of omicron circulating and more of us are vulnerable for reinfection. we are looking at the fall and winter and preparing for a variety of scenarios. this is difficult if we get a resurgence of the infection. very, very scary. by the way, if you happen to be african-american they want you to be afraid because they will tell you you will be indiscriminately kil ....
brian stelter, thank you very much. new warnings about the lasting health effects of covid. a just released study finds catching covid-19 a second or third time can raise your chances of new health problems and also contribute to long lasting health issues. these findings come at a time when more infectious sub variants of omicron are circulating. i want to bring in health reporter jacqueline howard. what more can you tell us about the finds? i can tell you with more variants, specifically sub variants of omicron circulating, more of us are vulnerable for reinfection, and first take a look at the variants that are circulating in the u.s. the omicron sub variant ba-5 causes more than half infections across the country. so those numbers were a previous estimate of proportions, and you see here the sub variant, ....
Acquired infections. that was a parallel argument for the vaccine mandate for covid. they were using data for the spring and the summer, which showed that if you look at health care workers who were fully vaccinated, there was an 80% reduced risk of infection at that time from the vaccine or the circulating variance, therefore, in parallel you would have less for transmission and the less vulnerable patients being impacted. that data is outdated, it does not fit in the current scenario. here we are. we are now winter, almost in 2022, we have omicron circulating, we have a waning vaccine efficacy, even with the boosters. yes, it may increase your antibodies temporarily put it in short lived. at this point, the vaccines only have about a 20% chance of preventing symptomatic illness. it does not make sense that when you are saying only vaccinated can enter in establishment because at this point the unvaccinated have almost equal chance of having the illness as well and transmitting it. th ....
Are fully vaccinated. that s the picture right now in florida. good news in hospitalizations and deaths not going up, but hard to believe that a third of the cars behind you right now are testing positive. doctor gupta, let s bring in you here. right now would you go to mass gathers like new year s eve parties or any big sporting events with omicron circulating? what do you think right now is safe? what is not safe? good afternoon. thank you for having me. if your viewers are all gathering in a vaccine bubble where everybody else is triple vaccinated. they re doing all the right things. if it s a larger gathering of more than 10 people, ideally people are testing the day of in abundance of caution. people need to think about this being the new normal. there s a coupling of cases with hospitalizations. let s hope this is still early, let s hope it remains through ....