00:00So let me open with the big question of how do you make sense, Dr. Fauci, of this complicated moment
00:06we're in?
00:07And have we, in fact, in your view, entered a new phase of sorts?
00:11Yeah, well, the short answer to the question, Steve, is that I believe we have, but we're not there yet.
00:19And let me explain what I mean.
00:21I think in many respects, Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency, of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about
00:35everybody.
00:36Those who have been vaccinated and vaccinated and boosted would get exposed.
00:41Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected, but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in
00:51the sense of not having hospitalization and death.
00:54Unfortunately, those who are still unvaccinated are going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this.
01:03And although it is less severe on a case-by-case basis, when you quantitatively have so many people who
01:14are infected, a fraction of them, even if it's a small fraction, are going to get seriously ill and are
01:22going to die.
01:23And that's the reason why it will challenge our health system.
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