final processes. >> the covid vaccine rates, they are pretty good numbers on vaccination rates. there were 4 million more shots in august compared to july. what does the white house think is driving that? is there something that the federal government is doing? sec. psaki: there is a bunch of different data from some of your news organizations, so i cannot break it down for you but what we have seen consistently is mandates that a been put in place by companies, private sector institutions, and the fear of delta. people are seeing horrifying stories on the news of young people, some cases children being hospitalized, and that is scaring people, which we hate for that to be the scenario, but that we believe has prompted more people to get vaccinated.

it is possible that the final approval from the fda has profited more people to get vaccinated, but i do not have a breakdown. we have seen those as the three biggest factors recently. host: each hour we set aside time for response about the covid-19 pandemic. remind viewers about your organization and what your role has been during the pandemic so far. guest: sure. the national association of county and city health officials represents health apartment's across the country that are operating at the county and city level of government. our organization supports these

health apartments and provide technical assistance and reinforcements to help them. the work during the pandemic has been front and center at that level on the ground, everything from testing and tracing early on in the pandemic to vaccine rollout, helping people get quarantined, access to services, they have played a major role. host: we have a special eye for public health officials if you want to join the conversation, (202)748-8002. during the break, viewers heard what jen psaki said last week on the status of the booster rollout, and this was dr. anthony fauci yesterday on face the nation on booster rollouts. >> i want to start with boosters

because we are just over two weeks away from september 20, the date that the administration had planned to start administering vaccine boosters for adults. is that still the plan? dr. fauci: in some respects it is paired we were hoping we would get both the products rolled out by the week of the 20th. it is conceivable that we will only have one of them out, but the other will likely follow soon thereafter. the reason for that is we are not going to do anything unless it gets the appropriate fda wrigley tory approval, then the recommendation -- regulatory approval. it looks like pfizer has the data in and likely would meet the deadline great we hope that moderna would also be able to do it so we could do it

simultaneously, but if not, we will do it sequentially. it is very likely that at least part of the plan will be implement it, but ultimately the entire plan will be. >> i know the fda and the cdc have said there is insufficient data about that moderna booster. is there anything you can tell us about what data is still missing and how long it is going to take to collect that information? dr. fauci: there is two elements, when his safety, to get enough people that you have followed significantly along enough to say that it is safe. we feel certainly almost that it is. you want to make sure when you are dealing with allowing the american public to receive an intervention, you want to make sure you are certain. host: that was yesterday on face the nation. lori tremmel freeman, as we await whether this is going to

happen simultaneously or sequentially, are officials ready for this rollout? guest: we learned a lot from the initial vaccine rollout, but we had all hands on deck in the community issuing vaccines, looking at supply chain, providing access points including clinics, global clinics, big pharmacy chains were helping to implement vaccination services, long-term care facilities, so it was a large well core dated effort. -- coordinated effort. in these early stages of the discussion, we have not really gotten to that same level of planning or details, but what local health department's are doing are preparing the best they can in this uncertainty, and they are trying to increase

capacity across the communities to provide boosters, but some of these vaccinators are not planning to partake in this effort. that level of capacity planning, outside of that, there is a lot of worry about understanding more about what the recommendations will be on the timing of this. health apartments can be ready and can be planning in advance. host: what do we know about this in terms of whether people will be able to get that boosters in the same timeframe that they got the original shot, if there is some pause along the way, those numbers will stack up? guest: when we look back to how vaccinations were administered in the early part of vaccine efforts, there were days where 3 million or 4 million people a day were getting vaccinated. we want to be sure that we have a good understanding of that

capacity that remains on the local level to do the boosters, whether that will be some prioritization's that would help with the rollout and also get these -- get to know who these vaccinators will be in addition to the health departments, which requires a lot of partnerships to do this well. host: what were some of the lessons learned from the original let that you think can apply here? guest: we have learned from our health apartments that they need to have the capacity to handle people as they call in, the elderly populations that not all use the internet or have access to those services or are able to do that. so having phone lines to accommodate that population early on, if they are prioritize . having appointments rather than walk ins to help manage the

flow. having vaccination sites in all parts of the communities that we really reach those parts of the community that are not able to easily get out or get vaccines in traditional ways. host: are you concerned right now? you mentioned capacity several times. guest: i think our health department's are concerned right now because we do not have all of the information, all of the pieces. we don't know when this will roll out, when the september 20 date was mentioned, there was a little bit of a panic that we need a little more time to be able to plan so we can meet the needs of the community and get the shots in the arms wherever people are. ogle health apartments, without understanding what the recommendations will be for the rollout, without understanding if there will be prioritization

groups, understanding the timing factor in terms of six months or eight months after the first vaccination, that makes a big difference. we are at the six-month mark right now so they could be a flood of people interested in this as soon as the announcement is made and we do not want people to go through any of the initial challenges they had early on with vaccine efforts to get answers to questions or get an appointment. host: officials are planning for this booster effort however it will be in the final form, at the same time there has been a surge in the delta variant and testing associated with the delta variant. officials very much a part of the testing effort. is that capacity where public health officials when it to be to test individuals, whether it be for the delta variant or some other variant down the road? guest: there is a flood of

resources in the testing, there is a $50 billion investment for testing and surveillance, so making sure that money is getting where it needs to be from the federal to the state to the communities and local health department levels, is really going to be critical to make sure that the resources are available on the ground where people need it to do testing. i think the resources are there financially, but we are back to this capacity as well, especially when you are talking about schools, this is new territory for them. there are not a lot of tried-and-true strategies and schools are sort of debating how to do this, if to do it, and we really need this firing on all cylinders in order to work. there is not a big broad

strategy in general, and we could stand to put some effort into what the strategy will look like longer term this virus. host: you talked about the resources, $12 billion back in march for testing in schools specifically. is that going to hiring new public health officials or school health officials, just for the testing issue alone? is that happening? guest: it is really hard to get a handle on who is doing this in schools because there's not a reporting system in place that gathers information on what schools are doing testing programs, whether they are doing rapid testing or what types of testing or screening programs, so without that information it is hard to understand what the

landscape looks like. we are hearing concerns from schools about things like risk factors in terms of having food during testing, so there are a lot of questions at that level about how to do this will and had to make it effective if we want to keep kids in school. one of the pieces of information that we are listing is when schools are doing this, how are they doing it and if it is working and we need to work harder to gather that information and share it across the school systems and across public health. host: lori tremmel freeman taking your phone calls. you can call in on phone lines (202)748-8000 if you are in the eastern or central time zone, (202)748-8001 for those in the mountain or pacific time zones, and public health officials, a

special line set aside for you, we went to hear what you are seeing in your communities, (202)748-8002. steve is up first out of corpus christi, texas. caller: i was calling in about the booster and the testing. that is not going to amount to a hill of beans if we cannot get that majority of the population vaccinated, because we are fighting something that is going to keep coming back. why are we focused on getting -- art we focused on getting the american population vaccinated? guest: thank you for that excellent point because what we are hearing from the health departments is that very thing, that although boosters are important, in the back of their minds they are trying to vaccinate the general public, the people that it been really

reluctant or have other reasons for not getting vaccinated. while we are waiting for booster information, that work continues on the ground and really at the neighborhood level of a community, going neighborhood by neighborhood and using different strategies to try to reach those populations that remain largely unvaccinated. thank you for that point because that were cast continue and boosters are another factor, but we really need to get more people vaccinated in general as well. host: michael on twitter wants to talk about twisting, should the broader testing strategy include antibody testing? caller: i think there are different strategies for different places at different times. we need to pull out all of the tools we have to use, that is one of the tools as well.

it may not be the right tool for every scenario, but it is a tool that we continue to use and that we should be using to help identify those who may have previously had the virus. host: janie from arkansas. caller: earlier you had a caller who said that natural immunity was far better than the shots, and that is fine, but you have to catch the stuff first to build up that natural immunity. yesterday in the arkansas democrat gazette, the story was how severe covid stories end, and it was written by a respiratory arabist and she gives us six steps of what somebody, the things they go through before they finally take them off life support.

it is the scariest thing i have read in a long time. it is on page 6-8 if anybody wants to read that. if you can read that and not want to get those shots, you are two bricks shy of a whole load. this is a good article to see what people go through when they die with this. it is terrible. i hope people will read that. thank you very much. host: j.d., thank you for pointing that out. guest: i think the stories are important, even if we don't want to have the fear factor. we are hoping that some of these stories since the virus is spreading more rapidly now with

the delta variant, we are seeing upticks in the vaccine, which is great. need to see more of it for more people get hospitalized or get admitted to icu units or god forbid, pass away. we are hoping that people will begin understanding who it is impacting, understanding the stories and understanding that they need to reconsider getting the vaccine for that reason. host: this is clipped out of canyon country, california. caller: my comment is about this weekend, we had college football season open up and we had stadiums all over the country completely fall of screaming fans. i am concerned that these are going to be super-spreader events even though it is outdoors. people are packed to each other. could you comment on whether that would be super-spreader event? guest: if these facilities are

allowing unvaccinated along with vaccinated into these events, they could be spreader events. with people in close contact yelling, of course outside is better than inside, there is more ventilation, open air, but with some of these folks sitting right next to each other, i just hope everybody is vaccinated, and even for those who are vaccinated, we know they can share the delta variant easily. if people wear masks in practice good negation measures -- mitigation measures in these events, some of them could still be done safely although they are not recommended right now while we have such a wide spread of high transmission of the delta variant. host: how much our schools, high

schools or colleges, consulting with public health officials when it comes to issues like this, having in person sporting events, large crowds to watch a football game? guest: it varies across the country. some consult health officials regularly and work in tandem with the apartments locally, do the best practices. others followed the cdc guidance as well, so i think either one of those is a good recommended starting point. the schools really should really not be doing these in the absence of good advice whether it's from the cdc or a local health department or state health department. host: a story from governing.com , public health struggles with pandemic and politics. can you talk about the intersection here of public health officials getting caught

up in politics? guest: this dates back to the early days of the pandemic with the issues of public health orders, and even back early in the pandemic we were seeing that these public health orders were taking audits, and they were politicized and seeing threats to personal freedom. as a result of this, the impact has been that health officials have been put in a hard place and many have left their positions, resigned, been fired, taking early retirement. we have been tracking that with the associated press come and it is over 250,000 health officials leaving right now.

i would like to mention some of the other impacts because the people that stay in their jobs, the stuff that support them in their jobs, are really under extraordinary stress, not just from responding to the pandemic, but from being in this difficult place politically where their health advice has been turned into political aspect. so what we are doing in the study with the cdc, we learned that over 53% of our health officials and their staffs are suffering from depression and other symptoms of mental illness from this pandemic. now have a longer-term more impactful issue to deal with and that is the health of our public health officials and staff.

we really have to pay attention to getting them the support they need to continue to do this really important work on the ground. host: this is roger. good morning, from that yellow hammer state. caller: i am vaccinated, but i regretted it. are they trying to develop a vaccine that does not have fetus cells from a lab? i appreciate any information you can give. guest: i think it has been well documented that the fetus cells have not been used in the development of that vaccine, that that information unfortunately spread early, but it is misinformation. if you care to look up this information on the cdc website,

you will see exactly how the vaccines were developed and that they were safely development -- developed without the use of those cells. host: -- to test whether the vaccines work, but the vaccines were not developed from the same cell lines while the johnson & johnson vaccine used lab replicated fetal cells during the production process, but the vaccine itself did not contain any fetal cells. what was the washington post reporting there. sergio, go ahead. caller: good morning. my question is, this is on booster stan moderna -- boosters and moderna, can them a dharna

take away -- moderna take this away to put people at ease because people are afraid of this covid and this variant. how can people -- how can people get their minds eased to get this eased as well as a booster shot, will it protect them? guest: absolutely. i would advise anybody that has questions, there's plenty of important information available on the internet or through your local health department, they can answer these questions, but these vaccines, with more and more people taking these vaccines, or data being gathered, we see the impact and effect of these vaccines and the importance of folks getting the

vaccines to stop the spread of the disease. if you recall, before this latest search, we really saw a drop in cases and vaccines were working. with the delta variant it is more important to follow the data, and we understand that as data comes in, that we need a little bit more help to fight off this virus. that is white the boosters are being considered. that is a way you can protect yourself and your family, your kids, and really allow yourself to go about your lives again, is really to get vaccinated. it is a very -- it is very fr eeing to know that you are not able to get the virus, and i would just ask everybody to do

your research and make that decision for themselves, and really look at the protection that the vaccines have been documented to show that they provide. host: time for just a couple more phone calls. this is john from california. caller: i have been a respiratory therapist since 1974. are the boosters compatible between pfizer and moderna and johnson & johnson, and why have i not heard johnson & johnson been reported for their booster? guest: right now the recommendation without the full set of recommendations coming down yet from the review of the fda data are that you will need to get the series that you originally got, whether it was

pfizer, you would need a pfizer booster, j&j, eventually a j&j booster or them a dharna, i'm a dharna booster. the question about the j&j, a far more people have gotten the johnson & johnson vaccine in this country so there is less data, so out of an abundance of caution and to make sure that enough data is collected to make that recommendation, more time is needed just to collect the data on the johnson & johnson vaccination and how effective it has been in keeping people safe and then eventually i am sure we will see recommendations as well. host: jan from ashland, ohio. caller: i had a question about the third vaccine. everything i had read put out by the cdc leading up to the official guidelines that they put out and the advisory

committee on immunization practices included patients that were without a spleen or a nonfunctioning spleen or with chronic renal issues. i've seen the official guidelines are now excluding those groups of people. my county health department told me i was not eligible even though i do not have a spleen, and that people without spleens are not even with two vaccines are not creating the antibodies as normal. i was wondering if you could provide any information about what those people were omitted from the guidelines. host: is that something you can speak to? guest: i cannot speak to the answer of that. all that i can really say is that if the data is not that supports the recommendation, then it is likely they will not

make that recommendation. i cannot really speak to that. i would definitely recommend that you talk this through with your primary care provider, who may be able to help you work through what that looks like for you individually. host: if you want to learn more about this work, you can go to their website online. lori tremmel freeman, we always appreciate your time. about 25 minutes left in our program this morning, and to end this monday morning, we will turn the phone lines over to you. it is our open forum, any public policy or political issue you want to talk about, the phone lines are open, democrats, republicans, and independent phone lines are on the screen. we will be right back.

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wherever you get your podcasts. >> washington journal continues. letting you lead the way, any public policy, political or state issue you want to talk about, you can do so now. the phone lines are open. as you are calling in, catching you up on the news out of sunday yesterday, michael mcauley saying top republican on the house foreign affairs committee indicating that the taliban holding americans and u.s. allies hostage on airplanes at airports in afghanistan and this is what he had to say yesterday. >> since we left the country friday, how many americans have gotten out of afghanistan? >> as i understand, zero.

we have six airplanes at the airport with american citizens on them as i speak, also with these interpreters, and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared these flights in the taliban will not let them leave the airport. the answer to your question is zero, and that is my concern, that they will demand more, whether it be cash or legitimacy as the government of afghanistan. >> let me pick up on this because i did not know this. there are americans on airplanes ready to fly out of afghanistan now and they are not being allowed out because the taliban is making demands, what demands are they making? >> they're not clearing the airplanes to depart. they have set at the airport for the last couple of days.

these planes are not allowed to leave. we know the reason why, because that taliban once something in exchange. this is turning into a hostage situation where they know -- they will not allow the americans to leave until they get full recognition from the usa. my concern -- i worry that his recommendation will be to recognize the taliban as the official government of the united states, a terrorist organization. host: the top republican in the house foreign affairs committee yesterday on fox news. also the house -- white house cheese -- chief of staff was asked the same question about americans left behind in afghanistan and the status. >> more than 100 american

citizens were left behind when the last military flight left earlier this week. what is their status right now? have any gotten out and how many are still there? >> we believe it is around 100. we are in touch with all of them who we have identified on a regular basis. we are hopeful that in the coming days, air service will be resumed, and we will look to see if americans can be part of those flights. we will find ways to get them, the ones that want to leave, to get them out of afghanistan. we know many of them have family members and many want to stay, but the ones that want to leave, we will get them out. as the president said, we have transitioned from a military mission to a diplomatic mission to get the remaining out of the country and we continue to work on that. host: that was from yesterday,

and this news, the taliban claiming today that they have taken full control of the country, the group said forces have seized one last province in the country where resistance forces held ground and put up a fight against the takeover, from cvs news -- -- cbs news. we want to hear what is on your mind this morning as we end our program in our open forum, plenty of your phone calls already. bill out of sebastian, florida, independent. caller: i'm going to say it is january 6 and the lack of anything being done, all of a sudden these democrats have become spokespersons for the republicans. you have 10 democrats who

absolutely are right wing, and it is just mind-boggling that they have not spoke on this more often, that they can align themselves with the republicans after what they have done to this country. they decimated the economy and just about everything else that was once decent has been distorted by these republicans paid and that voting purges that have gone on is a disgrace and i hope to god that somebody keeps the pressure on especially in some of the southern states. they are absolutely out of control. host: this is another bill, mobile, alabama, a republican. >> i think it was the british prime minister who said that there are three kinds of lies, lies, dam lies and statistics,

and in the case of this information on covid, we are getting very distorted statistical information. neither i nor -- most of my friends have had the facts and scenes -- vaccines. i am 77. we all had covid but we were able to get their pdx. we get note statistics comparing the ones who had therapeutics is fars the recovery rate with the general population, very important information. host: what therapeutics did you get? caller: i got the cocktail, i forgot what it was called. it was in infusion. it worked. i was sick for about four days. i stayed in quarantine for two weeks, and i have been perfectly fine, and it has been over a year. host: this is patrick from naples, florida, democrat. >> thank you for taking my call.

i want to get back to the unions . i grew up in eight right to work state and i remember unions when you could make $11 an hour in 1975. then these guys moved down from up north, all union guys, and now they are not union anymore and they want you to work cheaper. half of the companies around here will not put you on the books. they pay you cash, and if you -- if you are late, goodbye. i don't know. i am just disgusted with this group of so-called politicians of the state of florida, like the jammin just said with ron desantis. i understand when you are killing adults, but now they are killing children.

it is shameful. there is not one of them with a spine, and they are running over top of everybody as far as i am concerned. host: you mentioned unions on this labor day, plenty in the newspapers on the issue of unions. this went on the intersection between unions and vaccinations, the best tribute was on the front line workers on this holiday, calling for people to get vaccinated. another bill out of new york city. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i would like to say unions, we need them. i have been a union worker for many years. it is a great connection and network of people working together.

another thing, with this afghanistan. can you imagine they spent $300 million a day on a war for 20 years and yet we have people here that are hungry and homeless and just really have not the best of lives. i am saying that they could at least have given us in the united states of america, they could have given us a million dollars. thank you. host: gary, out of newport, kentucky. good morning. caller: as a union worker for many years, and a retiree, i am just disgusted with the way the unions have hung on to the democratic party and over and over again, the democratic party

has turned their back on unions, and they are just not learning from the experience that it is just not a good relationship. host: what is an example? caller: how? over and over, promises of this and that as far as like the pensions and wages, and now they are on this my right to work. over and over, i've seen it happen too many times. host: this morning another op-ed on labor day and unions, this from callista gingrich and newton encourage. starting that calling -- home

with a history of labor day, the legislation that made this a holiday was signed into law by president cleveland and created during a time of rapid in desolation, and they write economic growth as much of the united states shifted from agricultural to industrial, and this change created many challenges for working americans as they had few -- had to learn new skills and work long hours. labor day coming into existence back just before the turn of that century. this is rob from new york, independent. caller: hi. job widen hand it's americans over to the taliban. you guys refuse to talk about this. we should not talk about anything else until all americans are home. i am disgusting that you are going on and on about subjects that don't mean squat to anybody until our american others in systems come home. host: we opened this segment

talking about this issue and raising it on fox news. caller: fox news, that is right. no one else. people just -- fox news, and newsmax, and these are the only people putting out the truth. the rest of the stuff does not matter until the rest of these folks come home. host: the second clip was about the state of the union on it yesterday. caller: i did not see it. i do not watch the media for the most part for that reason. they do not talk about anything but. joe biden left them there. that is treasonous. host: fran from jacksonville, florida, democrat. >> i called to say something else while i was listening to that man talking about how joe

biden -- if they stay there long enough, they do not need to worry, they will be acclimated to the taliban because the republicans are becoming the american taliban, and with today being labor day it brings me to mind that they really want all women who get pregnant to experience labor, and labor day is a good time to bring it up, that the republicans are becoming the american taliban. host: another story on afghanistan, from over the weekend, antony blinken expected to go to the capital of delhi on saturday to thank leaders for their assistance and to meet with evacuees and officials there. he said friday that he would also visit the u.s. airbase in germany where many afghan

refugees are staying while they await flights to the united states. two minutes left in our program, and our open forum. democrats (202)748-8000, republicans (202)748-8001 an independent (202)748-8002. richard from missouri, a democrat. caller: i am calling, i have been a union member for 66 years. and it has been great for my life and my family. we have heard about monsters all of our lives, godzilla and different things. but i think we have two monsters, and one of them is this virus, and the other one is climate change. if we don't do something to try to defeat these people and things, we are in trouble. if you do not get the shot, i have had my shots and i am ready for my third one, but if you

don't get the shot, it is like having a beach house in louisiana, things might be all right but it might not, so you better take care of yourself. thank you. host: dan is in sioux falls, self coda, democrat. caller: i want to let everybody know about this covid vaccine thing. if this is such a bad deal, why are they given it to the presidents? former president trump got this vaccine and the biden has got the vaccine, so all of these people that are skeptical of the vaccine, if it was that bad, why are they giving it to them? this is the best point i ever heard of. as far as afghanistan, these people are not ready, these republicans are turning into the taliban. they will not let us vote, go back to the society that we used

to have. look at this. this is the reason afghanistan, why widen got out because we do not know the culture. we do not even a how to speak the language. they did not want us there. we got out. it was a hard move, but at least he had the balls to get us out of there. host: got your point. this is aaron from west virginia. republican. >> the lady that just called from florida saying the republicans are american taliban , look at what the democrats did to our country in eight months you rules. are you watching, or do you got brain problems? host: karen in contend -- connecticut, independent. >> i want to talk about how the red scare is on again in america, that we have had two others.

i cannot believe people do not see that. they talk that the democrats are blind to it, but some other people should wake up. i just hope that people will realize before it is too late about the red scare. we never became a socialist country in the last two scares. thank you. host: time for just a couple more phone calls on this labor day morning. you can keep calling in on the lines for democrat, republican and independent. but what other interesting story, in today's new york times on history of labor day and labor movements, the headline remember the 100-year-old battle for coal miners rights. here is the lead come on the shoulder of a lonely stretch of highway miles into the hills, a sign stands in the weeds, the battle of their mountain. here 100 years ago was the

largest armed labor uprising in u.s. history. in late argot -- late august 1920 1,000 marched to this ridge , a campaign that was ignited by -- that had been wilting for years. the army was met at blair mountain by thousands of men who volunteered to fight the sheriff who was in the pay of the coal companies. only 12 miles -- over 12 miles in five days, the men thought the minors with machine guns and homemade palms. there were at least 16 confirmed deaths, though no one knows exactly how many were killed before the u.s. army put a stop to that fighting. that stories from the new york times and it includes the historical worker, a picture showing the battle of blair mountain in august 1921, and them on -- market reads 7000

striking miners marched to organize the southern coal miners for the -- waiting in fortified positions, the battle ended with the arrival of the u.s. army and air corps. the organization effort in southern west virginia were halted there until 1933, and the picture of that marker in west virginia. time for maybe just one more call this morning. kyle in dallas, texas, a republican. caller: hello. i was just calling because i think everybody has forgotten that joe biden actually lied about the taliban when he said that the taliban was not going

to take over -- and that was a disgrace to me that they said it was not going to take over but they actually took over, like he lied about everything else. and like former president trump said the president is weak, and i think that was a disgrace. that is all i have to say. host: we will see if we can get kevin in maine, independent. caller: good morning. i have a strong feeling that people are just swallowing a lot of hysteria unnecessarily to the right with all of the commotion over the number of people, now less than 200, left in

afghanistan. if we go back to the beginning of trump and pompeo talking with the taliban, making a treaty in february of 2020, people had plenty of warning to be on that field to the embassy, cleared and ready to fly long before our now good president biden started removing things in the spring. host: kevin was our last caller, but we will be back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including mid co..

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