Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show Podcast.

We've gone backwards, COVID, confusion, snarls, the Biden White House.

That is the headline up on NBC News right now. Welcome back to Clay Unbuck Show.

It's not just us telling you that they got big problems here. The strategy doesn't make sense.

It's contradictory. They're falling apart. The narrative is in freefall.

Others are starting to notice it as well. Even on the left, so to speak, we've got our friend Alex

Berenzen with us right now to make sense of the latest data and numbers. The man who is right,

no matter how much they claim otherwise, author of Pandemia, a great book you should pick up.

And please subscribe to his sub-stack. I am a subscriber as is Clay. Thanks so much for being here, Alex.

It's always a pleasure, Mark. Okay, so Clay just read something out right before you came on

to add into all of this, which was all time high in nationwide hospitalizations for COVID.

Now, we know that the hospitalization data is funky and has to be looked at to begin with.

That's been talked about openly recently. But the fact that it's in an all-time high is also

a big indicator of something. What the heck is going on?

Well, it's a very confusing moment. There is an enormous amount of Omicron out there.

It is not clear how understated the testing is right now, but it's massively understated.

So one place you can look is actually wastewater. So I mean, not to be too graphic about this,

but COVID is found in wastewater. And the amount of it rises as more and more people get infected.

And one city that looks at this or one region state that looks at this pretty hard is Massachusetts.

And the Massachusetts wastewater data is off the charts. I mean, it is incredible how many people

are infected with Omicron right now. And that makes the hospitalization data really hard to figure out

in some ways, because so many people are getting incidental diagnoses.

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