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This is the Tom Hartman program.

I'm the line with us is Dr. Eric Feigelding, the epidemiologist and senior fellow at the

Federation for American Scientists, the first whistleblower on the COVID pandemic, formerly a

faculty member and researcher at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard's TH Chang School of Public

Health. His Twitter handle, which I strongly encourage you to follow, one of the best sources of

information on the COVID pandemic. And most current is Dr. Eric Ding, DR, E-R-I-C-D-I-N-G on Twitter.

It starts with an ad at the very beginning. Dr. Feigelding, welcome back to the program.

We're hearing that Omicron is 70 times faster in spreading and evades the vaccine or is

certainly capable of that. What does this mean? Just how dangerous is Omicron?

The 70 times is actually 70 times faster replicating in your in your trachea, in your windpipe.

And so it's not the trend that 70 times that would be apocalyptic. But Omicron is about probably

about four to six times faster than original strain and probably three to four times faster than Delta.

That is incredibly, incredibly large transmission advantage concerning Delta is already twice as

transmissible as a regional variant. And it's so fast that I think it will likely be dominant in

the United States by Christmas, literally next week. I think we're not that far in which

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