for war. putin hopes that biden is not a chamberlain, taking peace for all time. i m increasingly worried that he s right after biden keeps giving him what he wants. putin s main goal was just to call, he didn t care what they discussed because it showed putin s gang that putin is in charge. he is a big boss negotiating with the biggest boss in the world, the president of the united states, and i still don t understand how can you discuss the fate of ukraine without ukraine being at the table. so if ukraine is at the table, so to speak, with the president of the united states tomorrow by way of the phone call, isn t that a start? let s think why putin is negotiating with biden the fate of ukraine. the country he has been invading. also i don t understand, you know, why american administration keeps repeating if putin invade ukraine. he has invaded ukraine. eight years ago. he still occupies cripmea and
school standoff in chicago and dr. ezekiel emanuel, one of president biden s former advisers. talking about the new normal of life with covid. doctor, to get to this new normal you say we need more vaccines, stronger mandates. what if we don t get that? at this point there are vaccines all over the place and people who don t want to get them and those who don t want to get them don t plan on it unless a mandate is put in place, and those are in question. yeah, i think the supreme court should not take away one of our most important tools in the fight against this pandemic. we re still in an emergency, as you point out hospitalizations are at record highs, we have 1,500 deaths a day, even though omicron isn t as deadly, we still have an enormous burden on the country. we do need these mandates. i ve called for these mandates since april. we can get to about 60% of the population vaccinated by voluntary efforts, by making them free, by giving them some
omicron isn t as sickening or deadly as previous variants, just by the sheer number of cases they expect to see hospitalizations rise. poppy? as a parent covering this, i wonder how striking this is for you. for me the saving grace is our children were largely being spared. but they re not anymore. reporter: they re not. a lot of them, especially under 5, are most at risk because they don t have the choice to get vaccinated. texas children s hospital is one of the hospitals that are participating in a study to help get those vaccinations for children under 5, but that s going to take more time. it is disturbing to be in the icu ward here and see the youngest and most vulnerable ventilated. some were vaccinated and some
covid and you die. and there is nothing in between. in fact, there was a massive spectrum in between and it can change your life forever and leave you with a chronic health condition that you ll be dealing with for the rest of your life. i have to tell you it does not feel good to suddenly, you know, develop asthma in your late 30s and feel your body is just permanently changed by this. it s crazy to think that as you said a moment ago that you could have a condition that lasts forever. it is permanent based on something that didn t kill you, did put you in the hospital but as you say you didn t get intubated, etcetera, thank god yet you re still left with this condition. you hear stories of people losing their sense of smell and taste and i think to myself, that s not, you know, just a joke, ha ha. you can t smell anything or eat. losing that permanently or even six months or a year, that is a massive cost. that isn t something to be so blase about. and you mentioned earlier, let s
in fact, the tsunami of cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world. do you disagree with the head of the w.h.o., especially given omicron is overwhelming american hospitals right now, much more than it has european hospitals? what we re seeing is not so much a wave as a flash flood. omicron is different because it is so stunningly infectious. i ve never seen a virus this infectious. we re seeing positivity rates of 20, 30%. we re seeing what are called epidemic curves or the number of cases per day that are straight up, huge number of cases. and with that, the real risk of overwhelming hospitals. that s why it remains really important that we do everything possible to blunt transmission, so we don t have overwhelmed health care systems. that doesn t mean that omicron isn t very different. we don t know for sure, but everything we re seeing so far