gounder, let me get your take on something.ve been showing these graphics on the side of the screen. almost 62% of the country is vaccinated. you've had folks wearing a mask, washing hands, keeping our distance. we got shots, we got boosters. we still have about 60 million people in this country who are still not vaccinated. at what point do we just say, you know what, they're not going to do it? i mean, there's no public pressure campaign, nothing is going to convince this large group of people to get the shot. at what point do we do that? >> i do think there are some developments that will bump up those vaccination rates. the osha rule for workplaces with 100 or more employees has been upheld by the federal courts. some workplaces had already started requiring their employees to get vaccinated or opt out with weekly testing. and now you have a number of other employers that had been dragging their feet, waiting to see how this played out in court who are now going to have to implement these requirements. i think in the next m

celine gounder with nyu's grossman school of medicine. thank you so much and happy holidays. >> happy holidays! >> woodruff: now to our other lead story tonight, as we noted earlier: the political fallout from the near-collapse of negotiations over the "build back better" legislative package, a keystone of president biden's domestic agenda. republicans have opposed the legislation. but now democrats are looking at the road ahead, now that one of their own seems to be a firm "no" on the bill as it currently stands. lisa desjardins begins our coverage. >> if i can't go home and explain it to the people of west virginia, i can't vote for it. >> desjardins: the words dropped like boulders. on fox news sunday, senator joe manchin suddenly threw president biden's “build back better” agenda into new turmoil. the west virginia democrat said the white house and others weren't doing enough to reduce or, in his mind, be honest about the ultimate cost of the bill. >> we should be upfront and pick our priorities. that's t difference. what we need to d

cÉline gounder and dr. eric topol, thank you both.p biden nominee who draws in contention with patterns, next. i don't mean any disrespect, i don't know whether to call you a professor or comrade. >> senator, i am not a communist. t. vicks sinex. instantly clear everyday congestion. and try vicks sinex children's saline. safe and gentle relief for children's noses. you may remember a couple of weeks ago, we played this sound from the senate hearing. it sounded out of 1940's 1950's. where they grilled witnesses and asked if you've been a member of the communist party. >> you used to be a member of the group called the young communists. didn't you? >> senator, are you referring to my membership in the youth communist organization while i was growing up in the soviet union? >> i just wanted to ask you that question. have you resigned? >> bell from the? >> from the young communists? >> you go out of it with age. >> did you send them a letter though, resigning? >> senator, this was many years ago as far as i remember how the soviet union w

gounder: this was fun. i guess we will open it up for q&a as well. >> everyone, feel free to turn your videos back on. aaron and i will field questions live as well as those submitted in advance. we will kick off with this interesting question. you have mentioned the role of t-cells in helping deter severe disease and hospitalization. we have an audience wondering if we can measure t cells. we know it is different from measuring antibodies. what is the status of testing for t cells? >> you cannot test for t cells. you need a specialized lab to do that type of work. i will also point out the commercial test measuring antibodies not necessarily measure your neutralizing antibodies. they also each individual test, depending on companies, have a different scale and different things. they do not correspond to neutralizing antibodies. i would not take them at face value to say i have high levels of antibodies that are fine. people have to be very careful. >> is there any meaningful measurement right now for someo

doctor gounder, thank you very much.t important case on abortion rights for half a century. the court is considering a law in the state of mississippi which bans terminations after 15 weeks. a ruling isn't expected until next summer. the court is dominated byjustices with a conservative mindset — and if they find in mississippi's favour, dozens of other states could ban or restrict abortions. our correspondent sophie long sent this report. singing. this is a regular scene outside the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of mississippi. it's murder, murdering children is wrong according to the god in the bible. the difficult decision women who come here have made, is judged very publicly. this is the front line in a bitter battle that has gone on for decades. mississippi is trying to ban abortions after 15 weeks. if the supreme court rules in the state's favour, it will roll back the law that has been in place for nearly half a century, known as roe versus wade. it's people in the poorest communities that will feel

gounder. an epidemiologist and former member of the biden advisory board. dr.out covid again. you can tell by how long the lines are. it is what people are talking about. we know it is highly transmissible. what does that mean? how worried should we be? >> that really means, lindsey, if you are infected, you are more likely to transmit that infection to others and to infect many others. that's what it means to be more contagious or more transmissible. we are still are not entirely sure now viralent omicron is. the data based on age out of south africa, it does seem to be promising it is a milder form of illness versus the older strains of covid. i think it is important to understand and even if this is the milder illness, on average, if more people are infected, you will see an increase in hospitalizations and see an increase in deaths. i think we need to double down on all of the things we know work. including vaccination and hospitals really need to get themselves prepared for what is another surge. >> doctor, quickly, because i have more things i want to get

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gounder, you listen to a patient who says i'm not vaccinated, don't do what i did, get the shot, but it's also a story we've been hearing for months and months and months, and almost 800,000 americans are dead. what do we need to do that we're not doing to move the needle and convincing people, if somebody lying in a hospital bed, begging you to get your shot, her daughter in the icu doesn't move people, what do we do? >> i think many of us are frankly at a loss. even now, the vast majority of patients in the hospital we're seeing with covid, over 90% of people who have not been vaccinated so for all of the talk of booster, the most important thing remain, how do we get people who are not vaccinated vaccinated? i can tell you, i've tried to do everything talking about what it would be like to be at bellview, walking by the mortuary trucks going into work every day, a similar feeling going into the death star, at the height of the pandemic, talking about watching loved ones die and watching someone die without a loved one at their side, having to assist those conversations over an iph

celine gounder, said that she wishes that president biden had been even tougher, especially on domesticin masks. your thoughts about that? >> dr. murthy: international and domestic travel are different. on the international front, as you mention, there's a number of measures we have taken like vaccine requirements, requiring testing before people get on those flights. from a domestic standpoint, if people do wear masks, well fitted and quality masks, they can produce their risk on domestic flights. we've taken a number of measures domestically to increase vaccination rates which is the key to ending the pandemic. the requirements in workplaces or the availability of vaccines that we have made which is quite unprecedented. we will continue to do that. just last week, the president announced that we are getting pharmacies to offer more slots and we are resending reminders to millions of americans about the importance of getting vaccinated and boosted. these are strong measures we put in place and one thing we continually shown is a divider to use everything we have to get people protect e

gounder, on the omicron variant, what do we know today we didn't know last week, and what are we still not figuring out? >> there are three main characteristics to viruses. one is how easily do they transmit from person to person, how contagious are they? secondly, how virulent are they? how severe is the disease in that person who is infected with the virus, and then thirdly, how well does our immune system protect us, and that could be immunity after an infection or immunity after vaccination. we have seen that people who were infected and presumably had some level of immunity have been reinfected with omicron, so you really shouldn't bank on natural immunity. we suspect there might be slight reduction in vaccine effectiveness but still vaccines we anticipate will prevent much of the severe disease you might get with omicron. >> dr. banach, when people are considering getting their booster, sometimes they're asking which booster should i get? should i get the pfizer? should i get the moderna? i had the j&j. which one is better fighting the omicron or any other kind of variant that co