"I came up with a vaccine – with three vaccines," Trump told the Daily Wire host, referring to the development of the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines while he was still President. "All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years."
Owens interjected: "Yet more people have died under COVID this year, by the way, under Joe Biden, then under you and more people took the vaccine this year. So people are questioning how –"
But the former President meddled with Owens, saying: "Oh no, the vaccine works (sic), but some people aren't the ones. The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don't take the vaccine. But it's still their choice."
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"And if you take the vaccine, you're protected," he added. "Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine."
So far, 61.6 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, but that isn't stopping a holiday increase in case rates. And some states are noticing numbers of new cases passing any other points during the pandemic as the highly transmissible Omicron variant persists on spreading across the nation.
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COVID cases in the U.S. have skyrocketed by 38 percent in the last 24 hours to 238,278 new infections as the Omicron variant continues to spread, with some states seeing cases rocket by up to 670 percent.
Thursday's update in infection rates from Johns Hopkins University found diagnoses rise from 172,072 for the previous day. Deaths were also up a bit, from 2,093 yesterday to 2,204 today.
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Hospitalizations sit just under 63,000, including almost 16,000 COVID patients receiving intensive care treatment, according to an analysis by the New York Times. That is an 11 percent surge, but still, well below the winter 2020 peak of almost 130,000 in hospital, 30,000 of whom were in ICU.
Experts have suggested that the virus could infect 140 million people between January and March - 60 percent of all Americans.
Americans who've not gotten a COVID vaccine are more likely to have done so because they're young, and not because they're Right wing, recent data analysis has found.
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Professor Anthony DiMaggio, who heads the political science department at Lehigh University, said the contrast in vaccination updates between Americans aged over 65 and under was far more marked than the difference in shot uptake between Democrats and Republicans.
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