90% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk patients. joining us now to talk about it all, michael osterholm, director for the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota and a form member of the biden transition team covid advisory board. professor osterholm, appreciate you being with us. so, this outbreak at cornell, what does that tell you? i mean, 900 new infections. university shut down. i mean, more, if not all, fully-vaccinated individuals. what does that say? well frankly, it s a harbinger of things to come. this is a highly infectious virus. as we see it move around the world and become established even at a few percent, we are starting to see more and more really large outbreaks developing and so i think we are watching a war right now between the delta variant and the omicron variant as to who s going to become the king of the viral hill. and i think right now, omicron s transmission potential means that it prob
90% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk patients. joining us now to talk about it all, michael osterholm, director for the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota and a form member of the biden transition team covid advisory board. professor osterholm, appreciate you being with us. so, this outbreak at cornell, what does that tell you? i mean, 900 new infections. university shut down. i mean, more, if not all, fully-vaccinated individuals. what does that say? well frankly, it s a harbinger of things to come. this is a highly infectious virus. as we see it move around the world and become established even at a few percent, we are starting to see more and more really large outbreaks developing and so i think we are watching a war right now between the delta variant and the omicron variant as to who s going to become the king of the viral hill. and i think right now, omicron s transmission potential means that it prob