they got vaccinated.y don't need a mask when the majority of the -- the vast majority of the people got vaccinated. look, i want to talk about what's really hang, what it means, what it doesn't mean, and what we need to do this week and the months ahead. for from the moment i was elected, i said i'd always give to you straight from the shoulder, and we need some straight talk right now because there's a lot of fear and misinformation in the country, and we need to cut through it with facts, with science, with the truth. so what's really happening today? after months and months of cases going down we're seeing a spike in covid cases. they're going up. why? because of this new form, this new variant called the delta variant. this is a much different variant than the one we dealt with previously. it's highly transmissible, and it's causing a new wave of cases in those that are not vaccinated. our experts tell me that cases will go up further before they start to come back down. while cases are on the rise, t

is more proof that vaccines work. in fact unvaccinated individuals account for virtually all of 97 percent second we have fully vaccinated 162 million americans including 82 percent those individuals 65 years and older. as a result changing the course of the pandemic the threat is predominantly only to be unvaccinated. the data is clear they are in low vaccination rates. inas fact with can sister lower vaccination rates florida, texas and missouri have the lowest vaccination rates accounting for 40 percent of all cases nationwide. and for the second week in a row one out of five of all cases occurring in florida alone and they are primarily among unvaccinated people. the third reason and then to see the vaccination rates go up in fact five states with the highest case rates arkansas, florida, louisiana, na , had a higher rateac of people getting nearly vaccinated from the national average it's a wevery positive trend for the second week in a row states with lower vaccination and higher case rates and then to respond w

the vaccines are highly effective. we have enough vaccine for everybody to get vaccinated. and thanks to the american rescue plan, and the hard work of the american people, we have administered over 325 million vaccinations doses in the past six months. we have the tools to prevent this new wave of covid from shutting down our businesses, our schools, our society as we saw happen last year. i have said since the beginning that we will be guided by the science. so here's what the science tells us. on tuesday the centers for disease control and prevention and the cdc announced its new masked recommendation and parts of the country were covid cases are substantially higher or people did not get vaccinated. which they defined as 50 new cases for every 100,000 people in a week. the cdc recommends you wear a mask when you are in public and indoors like work or in a grocery store. that is true for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. why? even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from covid-19 you could have the delta variant in your system. and sprea

of vaccines. i really, really hope the committee hears me when i'm saying this. this is something that people on the ground level are continually saying. it took five monthsak to go fro phase 3 trials to eua. it's taken already longer than that to go from eua to full licensure of these vaccines. and the american public wants to know why. and number 10, stop talking about vaccine hesitancy in political terms for goodness sake and find different incredible spokespersons for different groups. i've neverve heard someone say won't get vaccinated because i'm a o republican. i do hear people say i don't trust government, i don't trust the public health system. when we focus on trust, we win people over. vaccine hesitancy did not manifest itself n out of nowher. our country needs to fundamentally change in how it provides expert public health services i and communications because vaccine hesitancy quite frankly isn't the root problem. it's just c the latest symptom. the latestt example of our collectiveve

>> the two mrna vaccines, the pfizer vaccine and the moderna vaccine, are essentially identical in my mind, and they're probably the best vaccines we have right now in terms of efficacy against the delta variant. the data on johnson & johnson is just much less clear. there is enough data out there in my mind to suggest that the j&j vaccine is still going to do a very, very good job of protecting against severe illness and death. the question is, how good a job is it going to do against preventing breakthrough infection, symptomatic infections? and the short answer is we just don't know, and we'll know more in the upcoming weeks. the thing that i worry about are the chinese vaccines, which have been used maybe about 1/3 to 1/2 of all the vaccines in the world so far have been the vaccines made in china. again, we don't have a lot of data on them, but the data we have suggests that they're far, far less effective against the delta variant. that worries me, because it means a lot of the world that's been vaccinated is actually potentially quite still vulnerable to the delta variant. >> y

vaccinated. in my home state of south carolina, for example, only 39% of the total population is fully vaccinated. most concerning, we are still losing hundreds of americans to the coronavirus every day. nearly all of the more than 8,500 americans who died from covid-19 last month were unvaccinated. i want to repeat that. nearly all of the more than 8,500 americans who died from covid 19 last month were unvaccinated. if more americans got their shots, we could reduce coronavirus deaths to nearly zero. at this critical juncture, we must not lose sight. work that remains to be fully-- to fully stop the spread of the virus in the united states. we must undertake dedicated efforts to overcome vaccine hesitancy and redouble our outreach and education so that we can find a way to convince those who are reluctant of the importance of getting vaccinated. we must overcome access barriers and address informational needs, particularly in communities of color. so that we can make it easier for everyone to ge

you have to be able to reach the vaccine and get vaccinated. there are four areas that we look at in this equity conversation. the first is making sure that you have time to going get vaccinated. that is where the paid time off piece is so important. just by eliminating that financial pressure because he went to get vaccinated, we create that dynamic, or people are always going to say i will do what i can to navigate the pandemic. and want to put my family in dire straits financially. transportation. the president always talks about the 90% of americans have a vaccine within five miles. you can't get there if you don't have a ride. having transportation, companies have stepped up and made that possible. uber and lyft offering free rides. public transportation being offered. that is an equity conversation. so, then from a child care perspective, it is the same conversation -- am i going to take on the additional cost of getting care? if i can take another kid to get vaccinated, -- [indiscernible] i applaud them for the huge amount of work they h

the vaccines are highly effective. we have enough vaccine for everyone to get vaccinated. thanks to the american rescue plan and the hard work of the american people, we've administered over 325 million vaccinations, doses, in the past six months. we have the tools to prevent this new wave of covid from shutting down our businesses and our schools, our society as we saw happen last year. i've said from the beginning, that we will be guided by the science. here's what the science tells us. tuesday, the centers for disease control and prevention, the cdc, announced the new mask recommendation in parts of the country where covid cases are substantially high and people didn't get vaccinated. which they define as 50 new cases for every 100,000 people in a week. the cdc recommends you wear a mask while in public and indoors like work or in a grocery store. that's true for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. why? because even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from covid-19, you could have the delta variant in your system and spread to it someone t

the vaccines are highly effective. we have enough vaccine for everyone to get vaccinated. and thanks to the american rescue plan and the hard work of the american people, we've administered over 325 million vaccination doses in the past six months. we have the tools to prevent this new wave of covid from shutting down our businesses, our schools, our society. as we saw happen last year. i've said from the beginning that we will be guided by the science, so here's what the science tells us. on tuesday the center for disease control and prevention, the cdc, announced its new mask recommendation in parts of the country where covid cases are substantially higher where people didn't get vaccinated. which they define as 50 new cases for every 100,000 people in a week. the cdc recommends you wear a mask when you're in public and indoors like work or in a grocery store. that's true for both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. why? because even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from covid-19, you could have the delta variant in your system and sprea

just remember that 60% of children are vaccinated with vaccines produced by this company.eems at least a little bit funny that, in this condition of urgency, the factory has not proved to be capable of producing good vaccines. on the other side, we should test first the efficacy and safety of vaccines. before refusing them. sami: let me take that point to john nkengasong, if the european union has some doubts, some questions about the standards or the certifications of the factory that's manufacturing the indian variant of astrazeneca, is it fair enough that they should hold off for now from putting the covishield vaccine on the approved list? >> i think we have been extremely surprised by that behavior. the covishield vaccine has been approved as part of the collection of vaccines for covax, the mechanism supported by the who, and the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovation. this vaccine has been paid for by the european taxpayers' money. we all know that the who has given the emergency use authorization for this vaccine. so i remain completely at a loss as to why

is there now a new divide emerging even between those who had vaccines and golden vaccinated in the vaccinated light or something like that? it seems, i think there is a low history, sadly in this kind of response of what i think we should call it what it is. it's a structural racism. it's the european nor knocking out themselves. and this implicit sense that brown people in the global south are incapable of making vaccines when, in fact, you know, when it hit 60 percent of the world's vaccines are made in india, we have competent way the world class produces in developing countries all over the world. and these are the same producers who are waiting for the vaccine recipes being held under lock and key by 5 m a dan bio intent so sadly, the europeans looking after themselves, once again. so yes, we may have this divide over back seen passports, but it's, it's a much more substantial thing. we have, we have examples max and jump in and say, well, from the you perspective, i'm sure they would argue this is not about different parts of the world. or races, this is simply about science and if cert

on vaccinated, consider vaccination today., available, it's easy and works in its never been more important. >> thank you and it's great to be with all of you again today. we are all seen the numbers, it's troubling. it's another reminder we are not out of the woods yet but it's important to not lose sight of how far we've come. cases are down dramatically from january peak averaging 200,000 plus cases a day. click on more than 151 million people fully vaccinated which is a high end of degree of production against production. there still choosing to get vaccinated and that's all we need. time and time again during this past year, faxing safe lives. 99.5% of covid-19 deaths 97% of hospitalizations are among the on vaccinated and why really every death from covered preventable tragedy, i'd like to share a few updates how wee continue tope support people making their decisions about the vaccine. first, we are ramping up our work with communities about this summer we seen people in every community steppingp up to get their loved o

pun vaccinated. >> yes. i think most of our bay area counties have been following recommendations. if we're providing accurate information in a timely way and we're saying this is going to be a recommendation for a time limited time, maybe two or four weeks when the variant is increasing, i think if we're transparent in what we're thinking and not overly mandating something, i think we have earned the trust in our community. con trap costa county is averaging 93 cases per day. are you comparable in terms of the numbers? >> not quite as high but close. around june 15th we were seeing two to three cases a day. now it's 20, 30, up to 60 cases a day. this is concerning. there are so many people vaccinated and despite the high vaccination rates, so many people, predominantly those unvaccinated are getting infected. so two to three up to 60 per day is concerning to us. this is why we're providing the information. there's been a lot lot lot lot wearing masks indoors. that's a good idea to do. so let's do this toget

i got the vaccine. i got the vaccine because not only did i want to protect myself but everybody i came in contact with. i wanted to protect the elderly people i came in contact with. i wanted to make sure they were going to be okay because they are the ones likely to die because of this. when i say it's a matter of life or death, this is serious. that's why we're here today. that's why we're in the bay view hunter's community. we understand the importance. we're not using rhetoric. we did our research on this. question asked the questions to our public health experts not only here in san francisco but all over the country because we knew people would be concerned. we knew especially african americans would be concerned and there would be issues around trust because of historical factors. what we're here to talk about is not what this means and how it relates to life and death but the importance of doing the right thing. doing our part whether we're uncomfortable with it or not. protecting our relatives

why vaccination is the production capacity there to produce these new vaccines? so that's a complicated question, but that a really, really critical what is complicated, because if we think about a vaccine in widespread use influenza vaccine made by maybe 2 dozen companies around the world in a typical year for a you know, for the typical flu season. we make 402500 1000000 doses where we've already dispensed over 2000000000 doses of cobit 900 vaccines. it gives you an impression of the scale. and now we're asking these companies, the companies that have developed vaccines, the manufacturer, not 400000000, not 2000000000, but 16000000000 doses actually now if you add on that, you may need boosters and there may be buried vaccines coming. we're talking on a scale that we've never manufactured vaccines before, and it's not dangerous. it's just, it's something that has to be done. and so, as with any manufacturing process, you have to go from initial low rate manufacturing to much higher rate of manufacturing. and sometimes you have to stop production in order to re

if a person who is not vaccinated -- should a person who is not vaccinated get the vaccine? we have not been able to get a direct answer from anyone. just give us literature to read. host: glad you asked the question. go ahead. dr. schaffner: it's an interesting question. let me tell you that there are two kinds of vaccines out there. there is the pfizer and the moderna vaccine. they are made in a similar way and then there is the johnson & johnson jansen vaccine, that is the one and done vaccine that is so attractive. that vaccine has been associated with the johnson & johnson vaccine with a very low risk of following guillain-barre syndrome. the risk is about eight cases for every million doses of the vaccine that are used, so there is an increased risk of guyon barre syndrome. if that concerns you please get them a dharna the pfizer vaccine. but you should be vaccinated. host: to jonathan in texas. good morning. caller: yes. right now if i wanted to go to canada on a vacation they wouldn't let me in because of the covid restrictions and everything. i am only a 1 hour driv

the vaccines. their unprecedented efforts have helped vaccinate 179 million americans in record time but more work is needed to prevent backsliding on this hard fought progress. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the strategies that are effective to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptick and how we can better inform the american public and encourage those who may be hesitant to feel confident in getting these shots. once again, i thank the members for being here today and i yield to the ranking member for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, appreciate you holding this hearing. thank our witness for coming today. as americans move into the fourth of july weekend, independence day takes on special meaning this year. thanks in large part to the vaccines this is the first holiday weekend where virtually all of america is back open. free. families and friends will celebrate together, grandmothers will visit and hug their grandkids, crowds will gather again f

vaccinations each day. now, if you look at the numbers, that's more than one in three over, 36% over last week's pace. but we have to do much better because we were behind, all right? here is the tale of the tape. a third, one in three, of those of us who are eligible are not vaccinated. and now, what too many of them see as this perverse flex of freedom, they are affected the freedom of the majority who protected themselves and their loved ones. now, all must mask up again because delta can spread by the vaccinated as well. and for those who are saying, no mask for me, no vaccine, you better get ready to hear that "no" answer as well. at school and at many of the places we work and play. there is going to be a consequence for irrational resistance. disney is now among the companies requiring vaccinations for all its employees. walmart's corporate employees in america as well. these are two of the nation's largest employers. disney is also requiring staff and all guests to wear masks regardless of vax statu

trump vaccine. trump vaccine. trump vaccine. great. great. even trump is coming closer to pushing the truth the way he does lies about the election. listen. >> how about the vaccine? i came up with the vaccine. i recommend you take it but i also believe in your freedoms a hundred percent. >> now, this is the part i don't get. okay? i still don't understand why he doesn't push this vaccine like everything except what i keep being offered up an answer which i don't want to accept just to see him as a human being which is there is nothing in it for him. it doesn't help him for america to do great and get away from the vaccine right now. if it were his watch it would be one thing but he blew that. i have a hard time accepting that. i don't want to. i don't want to think that way about people. but this freedom thing. where is the freedom issue? don't force me to take it, man. who is forcing you? there's talk about they're going to force. private companies can do what they want want. they say no shirt no shoes. the vaccine falls into it. you don't

vaccinated?ecause i think this is what people are looking at. dr. fauci it refers to the : risk/benefit ratio of getting a vaccination, and every time this has been evaluated, not only with this vaccine but with so many other vaccines, there is no intervention that is without sometimes getting an adverse event. i can't think of one that hasn't. so when you have that situation you balance the rarity or the uncommonness of a particular adverse event with the advantage that you would get from protecting yourself against the actual disease against which are vaccinated. and thus far, whenever this has come up about an adverse event, it's been evaluated, perhaps even a warning has been given, but it's always weighed on the part of saying that the benefit of the protection of the vaccine outweighs the risk of the adverse event. senator smith: thank you. dr. walensky, i have spoken with public health experts in minnesota who tell me they are still challenged with getting , especially younger adults who a

we need all americans who can get the vaccine to get the vaccine. if you won't do it for yourself, do it for your friends, your families, your neighbors and your local community. do it for your grandchildren so they can go back to school. do it for your grandparents so they can finally go out and eat. not only is the delta variant a concern, but we need to look around the corner to the next mutation of the disease. so i would like to know if we're performing enough sequencing to be able to quickly detect the presence of variants and are we tracking the right metrics to understand the shift and drift of the virus so that we can see in realtime what new variants may mean for our response. last week, one vaccine company announced it was ready to file for fda emergency use for a booster shot. do we need booster shots. when do we need them. what does this mean for widely available vaccine. he started offering booster shots last week. i'm worried that american leadership is no longer what it once was, when it comes to public health. and other countries ar

if you are unvaccinated, please get vaccinated now. the vaccines work. it is safe. it is free.t is readily available. it has never been more important. as we manage this virus, our whole of government effort continues to work to get more people vaccinated, address areas where we have seen outbreaks among the unvaccinated, and prepare for every scenario. first and foremost, we continue to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of new people each day , meeting unvaccinated americans where they are, answering their questions, helping them make up their mind, and making it even easier and more convenient to get a shot as soon as they are ready to do so. we are doing this by trusting and empowering messengers -- trusted messengers to have those conversations we know work. whether it is vaccinated people and communities across the country talking directly to their neighbors, sharing their own vaccination journey and answering questions, or it is olivia roderigo using her voice and platform to spread the word. we are working with doctors, pharmacists, employers, educators, and school adminis

so tell us, when did you get vaccinated? >> i was vaccinated in may. >> okay. which vaccine? >> i received the moderna vaccine. >> you got the vaccine and then i guess it was a month later you decide to go to vegas? i assume you did not travel much through the pandemic, it was a treat for you and your wife? >> exactly, we have been staying pretty much at home or going to our essential work the whole time for a year and a half. >> i am sure it was a big mental step for you to get over to go to vegas, a place that is crowded. what kind of precautions did you take? did you fly, drive? >> no, we decided to drive. we were using hand sanitizer, using our masks and then when we got there, we took the option to take our masks off, unfortunately. >> i see. that was everywhere? even where you were in crowded places which is so much of las vegas of the strip certainly. >> yes. unfortunately yes. is is mask optional pretty much everywhere there and i took the option. >> okay. you did not wear your mask at all there. and i assume others did not wear their masks either pretty much? >> i co

qualified vaccinators to scale up the vaccination program. and second, there is a low confidence in government and in the vaccine products, and that is hampering the rollout. we've seen a surge of misinformation and rumors online and off-line, and we are observing vaccine hesitancy among health workers but also among presidents and political leaders. and third, with limited supply and his ability in to win the next is coming, many countries have reduced their short-term ambitions for their vaccine programs. charles martha at chad to all talk about their country experiences, but we now see two extremes in our world. some countries have fully used up all of their doses and had to actually stop their vaccination programs due to lack of supply. on the other hand, there are also several countries that signaled that they would not be able to fully utilize their doses before the expiration date. and unicef and partners are working hard to support these countries to quickly export their access vaccine doses to other countries who are in need and can

i am vaccinated with pfizer, and my wife is vaccinated with sputnik v. we got our vaccines because we travel. this pandemic has been a huge burden on both of us. we have beeneparated for months because of travel restrictions, so we really want everybody to be vaccinated so we can try to go back to normal. thank you, dr. fauci, for all the work and service you have done for us. my main question was, delta is causing big troubles, but isn't there also lander? and doing know how many more variants are going to pop-up before we can read about this in history books but instead of living through it? host: you said you traveled for work-related purposes? caller: and family related purposes. my in-laws are in europe, and my wife is in europe right now. i cannot go see them because of travel restrictions. she has a difficult time getting over here depending on whether or not she's allowed to leave based on the case count in russia where she is from. host: ok, let's hear from teresa, dan ridge, tennessee, says she is unvaccinated. good morning, teresa. caller: goo

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vaccinated. and that choice not to get vaccinated does put millions of other americans at risk. those, who can't get the vaccine because they are immunocompromised, or because they're -- they're -- their children and the vaccine hasn't been approved for kids under the age of 12, yet. so while this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, there are millions of children who can get sick because adults won't do something to protect them. the delta variant, highly infectious. much easier to catch, if you're unvaccinated. is now the dominant strain in the country. cases have doubled, tripled, and now, nearly quadrupled over the last four weeks. listen to hhs secretary, javier becerra in las vegas with the state's positivity rate now approaching 15% and only 39% of the county encompassing las vegas fully vaccinated. >> this is not fiction. this is not some kind of disinformation campaign. this is just a fact. if you are dying today in america from covid, it's because, essentially, you're unvaccinated. why wo

effective vaccine. there is no reason to believe right now that people who have taken the j&j vaccine are in need of a booster dose of any sort. there are no data to indicate that that is the case. back to you, jeff. jeff: on the global front, as you know, the president has committed to sharing 580 million doses of vaccine to the world. half a billion doses of pfizer being donated to the 100 or so countries most in need. this is by far the largest ever donation of covid-19 vaccines by a single country. we shared the 80 million by the end of june and they have now shipped so they have -- they're in the air or they've arrived in the recipient country. and will continue to share tens of millions of doses across the summer months, beyond the 80 million. thank you for joining and we look forward to seeing everybody at the next briefing. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright nation

vaccinated. as we have talked about this delta variant is extremely dangerous. it is significantly more contagious, more transmissible than the previous forms of the virus. and there is evidence that it i think that the prospects for the fall could be very challenging. however, if we are able to continue to ramp up our vaccination program, that's the most important way to protect people in the fall. frances: another unsettling piece of news came from the c.d.c. director who thought the virus would only be a few mutations away from the variant that could potentially escape vaccines. how does that inform your thinking going ahead and how should it inform messaging to people who are still hesitant? secretary levine: whenever the virus has significant immunity spread in transmission, there are lots of cases, then you can see the development, the variant that has to do with how the virus develops. so the way to actually decrease the amount of variants that we would see would be to increase our vaccina

no vaccine is 100% effective.en if a vaccine does not completely protect against infection, it usually, if it's successful, protects against serious disease. >> which brings us to the nfl network's rich eisen. he was vaccinated, then came down with a case of covid recently. here's part of what he posted on social media last week. quote, as someone sitting day four in quarantine, fighting off symptoms, i can personally attest, you still need to be careful, and most importantly, get vaccinated. why? especially since mine didn't keep covid from my body? so there aren't any more variants to pierce highly effective vaccines that would ordinarily get all of us back to normal life. if you want an answer more personal to you, get vaccinated so you won't go to the hospital and die. rich eisen joins us for his first interview since being infected. good to see you. first, how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling fine. i got out of quarantine yesterday. other than just being fatigued, the symptoms that i had, which were very diffi

that's the difference the vaccination makes. the vaccine can give you freedom. look. it's not perfect. and in fact, it's becoming increasingly imperfect. how much so? i don't know. and i do not believe the findings of "the washington post," all due respect, until i see the data. i believe the headline or i wouldn't repeat it. i believe the reporting, or i wouldn't share it. but we have to see the data, that supports it. but if it spooked the scientists there, it should get our attention, as well. we have a lot of new information to process. let's bring in a better mind. dr. jerome adams, former-u.s. surgeon general of the united states of america under president trump. good to see you, doc. >> good to see you, chris. >> what do you make of this news? >> well, i think it's important to start off by saying the vaccines work to do the number-one thing that people should care about, and that's keeping them out of the hospital or the morgue. so, vaccines work. and i want to thank you for emphasizing that point. now, you talk about this new information that -- that is in "t

get them vaccinated, get all the vaccines as well. i'm grateful for the question so lots of things that worry me but also possible opportunities to get teens in and get them vaccinated so they can be safe and families and communities can be safe. >> thank you for the answer, it is terrific. doctor webb, i'm goingng to turn to you next. the white house is prioritizing rapid rollout of covert vaccines is an integral part of biden's pandemic response strategy yet thblessed and half of the total u.s. population is fully vaccinated. as schools prepare to reopen for in person learning, how is the administration working to get more children vaccinated and what can the businesses do to help? >> let me first say thank you y for having me on this afternoon. it's great to chat with you all at any time i get the vaccine, my role for equity to serve vast and equitable ways has been making sure unities have access to these vaccines and access being that primarye focus so before you wonder about people's intentions, make sure the vaccine.ak now vacc

and more universities and employers have started to impose vaccine mandates. >> vaccines are how we endhe pandemic, how we protect our communities, and how we retire our masks for good. >> reporter: but for now, masking is back, not everywhere, but increasingly recommended, even required. across the south, school starts in a couple of weeks, and when it does, atlanta's system will require students and teachers to wear masks. john? >> dickerson: mark strassmann, thank you. the world health organization is warning that countries are in the globe of covidf infections and deaths. this comes as demonstrators in france, ialy, and australia took to the streets this weekend, protesting against vaccination passes and new lockdown measures. elizabeth palmer has the latest from london. >> reporter: good morning. the idea of vaccination passports is gaining traction in europe. six countries now have some version of them, and france has the strictest rules. there, it will be necessary to even enter many public places. and that kicked off violent demonstrations in paris. riot police tousled with prot

i grew up having to get a smallpox vaccine, we all did, other vaccines also.is there going to be a fire storm. whether it's a mask or vaccine, there's an idiot percentage of the population that needs to be told what to do and guess what, you don't have a choice. too bad. >> as we talk about the power of this misinformation, we had an interview on our show a few days ago with a doctor at the university of mississippi who said these people who i treat, who have trusted me, trusted our doctors for years and years and years on everything else suddenly have decided we're not to be trusted on the question of this covid vaccine. so it gets to the point everyone here is making. what is the power of trusted people inside the community over facebook. and unfortunately facebook for a lot of people wins the argument. >> facebook is so unbelievably responsible for the disinformation out there. such a huge part of the problem in this country. facebook has done so much damage to this country in the past four years it's -- we wouldn't have enough time on this show to talk abo

vaccine. i don't know genetically if smallpox is related to chickenpox. you know, i know smallpox and cowpox are they're both orthopax viruses, but i don't know if chickenpox fits into that or if it's another species of virus entirely, but i do know that the general premise of how vaccinations work that you infect a healthy patient with a virus that prompts the response from the immune system that then builds up immunity to protect the patient against that virus. i know that that basic concept of vaccination that basic process has also been used in the in the chickenpox vaccine. i just don't know if those two viruses are. genetically or biologically related all right, i think. i think those are all the questions we've gotten. i hope that looking at the history of smallpox. i hope you found some. learn some interesting things not only about the the disease of smallpox and the ways in which it was eradicated, but i hope you also found interesting that many parallels to our current situation of d

so, get vaccinated. why? if you get vaccinated, we can slow this thing down because it can't replicate the same way. we can contain it. that's it. is that confusing? but the strong and wrong enabling you would rather state that it's confusing. it doesn't make sense. kevin mccarthy declaring the cdc decision wasn't based on science but conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state. why? why would they want that? it's bad for biden. conjured? take a look at the map, my brothers and sisters. does this look conjured? hospitalizations up all over. younger people now getting sick. that familiar refrain, well, it's really just the old people. not anymore thanks to you. do you know why that is? unvaccinated people and the people enabling the renaissance or outright resistance as it was some misplaced cause. it's freedom. i'll take to one of you tonight. we've got him on the show. it's freedom not to take the vaccine. you've got the right. but we learn every day

not completing the series those of partially vaccinated are at risk we recommend they get vaccinated on schedule that if you are beyond that window io want to reiterate there is no bad time to get the second shot. do it for yourself, your family and your community and protect your young children who right now cannot get vaccinated themselves. with that i will turn it over to doctor fauci. >> thank you. i would like to continue along the lines that dr. wolensky had mentioned that now look at it from the global standpoint. clearly the delta variant is dominant in the world.. if you look at this map of the world there are 100 countries that now have the delta variant detected in june of 2020. if you look at the average daily prevalence worldwide and the right-hand part of the slide, you see the extraordinary surgeon the dominance of this variant worldwide w and as was mentioned in several briefings that we have had to see an increase in our own country to the point of now having 50 percent dominance and greater than 70 percent. that is sobering news but look worldwide with hospitalizati