but contradicting the president s statement, in maine our largest health system reported that absences of vaccinated staff caused by covid-19 last week was at the highest point since vaccines became available. increased by four fold. does the message that covid is a pandemic of the unvaccinated still hold true with the emergence of omicron? and do you agree with the new york times which has twice reported that while the covid vaccine is critical in preventing hospitalizations and deaths, it is less effective against the omicron variant? thank you for that question,
force of the state the states apparatus should operate equally upon every human individual regardless of race or ethnicity. the states should vigorously punish racial discrimination. it should not practice any such discrimination of its own, not even in the name of equity. i talked with i talked about this with the former u.s. surgeon general under president trump jerome adams yesterday. i want people to understand why they did it. there are studies that show race is an independent risk factor for dying from covid. now to the how. i don t approve of how they did it. what we need to do is tell people if you re african-american, native american, hispanic you are at higher risk and you need to a, make sure you are vaccinated. we shouldn t be using race as an independent factor to decide who gets treatment. harris: your thoughts, dr.
we used some of the funds to test those children and then to separate them from covid negative children at the border. i m going to repeat my question because you did not answer it. has any of that money been used for non-testing related purposes at the border? for the mitigation purposes as well which the legislation allowed the funding to be used for. i will follow up with you because i don t feel like i m getting an answer. dr. fauci, just last week the president once again said that covid-19 is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and let me make very clear that i have encouraged vaccinations and i believe in them.
marginalized by fauci and collins. sometimes they became tomorrow s cures. throughout the pandemic there has been too much of that. with hydroxychloroquine and other treatments. now as you cut into me dr. fauci is talking about therapeutics we do have. there is a tremendous scarcity of them. how we get to these treatments but we don t have them out there. harris: why don t we have them out there? i think we don t have them out there because the administration didn t anticipate this problem and didn t pay in advance to pfizer, to gsk, they didn t anticipate omicron. the president himself said we didn t anticipate omicron. harris: they didn t
of president trump s advisors and family members and they make a sport out of attacking you personally. some of the most vicious, hateful, ugly ways. harris: i m harris faulkner and we re covering this hour of the hearing there with dr. fauci and dr. walensky, the cdc director. it just got really heated and we wanted to pull back for just a moment because we want to get some perspective on where we are in our fight against covid-19 and that was quite a fight. dr. marc siegel in focus now. fox news contributor, professor at nyu langone medical center. what do you make of that, doctor? it was a really amazing personal attack that went on. i have to tell you, i know both of these men very well and i have a positive feeling about both of them. i have met with senator paul, i think he is an excellent physician not just a senator. i think this has turned into a personal issue.