when the vaccine came out, he got vaccinated. a month after his last shot, he caught covid three times, he is down with it now. why? i don't understand. for this vaccine to lose its strength so soon, it seems to me it is a pretty weak-made vaccine in the first place. i am very curious about this and i know he cannot be the only one out there who had this happen. host: we are running out of time and i want to give dr. besser a chance to respond so let me let him jump in. guest: thank you for the question. i cannot comment specifically on your son's health, but i can say there are some individuals who have immune conditions where they will not amount an effective response to a vaccine. one reason it is so important that everyone gets vaccinated to provide protection to people who cannot get vaccinated for various medical reasons, people who get vaccinated but do not get an immune response, and those with religious reasons who cannot get vaccinated. we talk about herd immunity and getting high levels of vaccination in the community,

at all to get vaccinated. one of the things that gives me some hope is that in some of the states that haven't hit the hardest recently during the pandemic, we are seeing an increase uptake for vaccines for first-timers. people are saying i have friends and family members who are getting very sick from this virus, i want to do everything i can to get this under control to protect me, my family and my community. host: for those people who might still be on the fence, i wonder what you think this booster announcement will do to that. the data here showing waning protection rates over time, are you concerned that will keep people from getting their first shot, when we are now talking about a three shot dose? guest: i hope not. i encourage people to talk to health providers, their own doctors and nurses, people they trust, about this. i am a general pediatrician. the idea over time that people need additional doses of vaccine is not something new to me. we vaccinate every baby, every young child at age 1 against m

vaccinated, please get vaccinated for yourself and for your loved ones. your neighborhood and for your community. to the rest of america, this is known time to let our guard down. we need to finish the job with science, facts and confidence. we will get this done. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. [crosstalk] announcer: more on the pandemic from the white house coronavirus response team. they briefed reporters earlier today. >> good morning and thank you for joining us. today the main topic of our briefing is our plan for booster shots. i will turn to dr. murphy, dr. wilensky and dr. fauci in a moment. first i want to provide a brief update on our fight against a virus. we continue to see a rise in cases driven by the more transmissible delta variant with cases concentrated in communities with lower vaccination rates. this remains a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we know getting more people vaccinated is the best way to end this pandemic. we are making progress. nearly 7 million americans have rolled up their sleeves and got ther

, if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinated -- so if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinated, it could be the difference between getting a case of the sniffles versus suffocation and having to go into the hospital with covid-19. i say it's the difference between spending a few days in your bed at home and weeks in the i.c.u. at a hospital. this is not to be taken lightly. these vaccines are life saving and can keep you out of the hospital, and, of course, prevent death. here, an over eight-fold difference, eight times more likely to be hospitalized if you are not fully vaccinated for covid-19. look at this difference between these two bars. incredible difference showing the effectiveness of these vaccines at the local level. next slide. so i also wanted to touch base on the indoor masking order that our san francisco public [inaudible] issued on august 3, requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. this is an effort that aligns with c.d.c. guidance to reduce transmission of covid-19 and everyone due to the widespread covid-19 delta variant. so, you know, this de

in africa have been vaccinated who are eligible to be vaccinated.t really shows this failure that there is, where we reach a point injuly, 2021, where we could have prevented almost all of the deaths going forward. and, yet, those deaths still accumulate every day. today, 9,000 people globally will die. it seems to me that is a fundamentally important point, and i want to come back to the reasons why in the course of this interview. but, right now, ijust want to focus on one thing which is very relevant to your oxford astrazeneca vaccine, and that is that, despite the requirement to get vaccines to people across the world as quickly as possible, we know that there are places in the world — i'm thinking of germany, australia — which have essentially decided they're not going to use your particular vaccine. does that bring you great sadness and regret? well, i think, as things stand at this moment, actually, the vaccine is being deployed amongst those who are at greatest risk of severe disease. so, you know, over the last seven months, in europe, the

vaccinated. the safer it will be for those children as they enter school, but we do want children k-12 classes as well as the teachers and staff to wear masks given the transmissibility of the delta variant. >> this is a change of course because the cdc was saying they should not have to wear masks and now that has changed. do you think that is going to be a consistent message going ahead knowing what you know about the delta variant? >> we always have to change our messaging and guidance depending on what we see on the ground. i anticipate this delta variant, that message will be consistent in the foreseeable future. >> the washington post shared numbers, a tripling in the number of infections. what does that suggest to you? >> i think with the fall will look like will depend upon the success of our vaccination program. we are seeing an increase in the number of people who are rolling up their sleeves and heading vaccinated. as we've been talking about this, delta variant is extreme a difficult

>> 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. >>ou

and monitoring for vaccine safety.who want to see the vaccines rolled out to other people first before it goes to them. you've got scientists here with you saying, do a better job from the public health perspective at persuading those people in that category to have the confidence to come forward. the second thing is that it is a sort of carrot and stick, and we are beginning to see this in a number of countries, an example in france, if you are not vaccinated, there's a risk. there's a risk if you want to go into a restaurant or nightclub. it is both the carrot and the stick, if you like, and i think we're going to see more and more of those incentives. but the incentives in a way are also the stick because if you don't do it, he won't be able to do certain things. and the third thing obviously under what discussion is whether for some jobs, it needs to be compulsory. we've seen in kenya discussion public servants -- discussion about public servants, health care workers. so if you are in a job like an old age home env

i said have you been vaccined? vaccinated? and he just threw his hands up and all i saw was his back. it took them three days to find me. he was in kaiser in oakland. he was dying. he had acute pneumonia and he had all of these bacterias in his body that was eating up every organ he had. and my message that i would like to get out today to the masses, if you're anywhere from 38 to sixty and i have a group of about twelve doctors that took their time with me and they said within the last six to eight months, the group 38 to 60, they come in, they don't make it out. they don't make it out because they have not been vaccinated. they die. my son is dead. my son. i have only one child. i beg you. i beg you. i can't take no more. my son i'm going to bury. you don't know what it feels like. my son is dead. i've got to go. >> reverend brown. say something. >> thank you very much, madam mayor and to dr. colfax. reverend shaw of bethel african american first friendship and other clergy persons who are here. i stand to say, we should app

no vaccine is 100% effective. in the breakthrough infections they are mostly mild and without symptoms whereas the unvaccinated who have a much greater chance of getting infected in the first place are the ones that are vulnerable to getting severe illness that might lead to hospitalization and in some cases death. we are looking not to lockdowns but to some pain and suffering in the future because we are seeing cases go up which is the reason we keep saying the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. host: if that's the case, the various companies involved whether producing vaccines or tests or the like, how prepared are they for this long haul dr. fauci talks about? andrew: they are prepared, they are doing proactive studies against different variants. the ramp-up in manufacturing has been extraordinary as far as pfizer beyond tech and maternal have produced billions of doses in the next years and will continue to ramp up production for the world. the significance and the severity of

, if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinated -- so if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinated, it could be the difference between getting a case of the sniffles versus suffocation and having to go into the hospital with covid-19. i say it's the difference between spending a few days in your bed at home and weeks in the i.c.u. at a hospital. this is not to be taken lightly. these vaccines are life saving and can keep you out of the hospital, and, of course, prevent death. here, an over eight-fold difference, eight times more likely to be hospitalized if you are not fully vaccinated for covid-19. look at this difference between these two bars. incredible difference showing the effectiveness of these vaccines at the local level. next slide. so i also wanted to touch base on the indoor masking order that our san francisco public [inaudible] issued on august 3, requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. this is an effort that aligns with c.d.c. guidance to reduce transmission of covid-19 and everyone due to the widespread covid-19 delta variant. so, you know, this de

the pfizer vaccine, the moderna vaccine and the j&j vaccine. if you got any of those three vaccines, you should feel good that your chances of being hospitalized or dying of covid are much lower. people can get mild or moderate infections and those are called breakthrough infections but there is a difference between mild and moderate richter infections and the severe breakthrough infections or hospitalizations that we worry most about. we also know that with vaccines in general, over time, they start to lose some of their efficacy and their protection and that's one of the reasons why we have many vaccines that require more than one dose. take the hepatitis b vaccine, which many people have gotten. there are other vaccines like tetanus which require boosters. we know that periodically, sometimes you need a next or dose of the vaccine in order to ensure that it continues to be protective. we feel good about the protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death, and we want to keep that protection going. we announced we plan to admini

are they bringing more vaccines? are they announcing more vaccines?ncing more vaccines overall? >> overall and then to brazil for the delegation coming to brazil tomorrow, we will be bringing vaccines? >> the answer is i don't know if the delegation going physically. >> are they announcing? >> there is a need for several billion doses around the world. we have committed to over half a billion doses. and we're trying to provide for more and provide for the capacity of countries like india to be able to produce the vaccine themselves. and we're helping them do that. that's what we're doing now. and we're trying to -- and, by the way, it's free, we're not charging anybody anything. and we're trying to do as much as we possibly can. thank you. >> we're learning that your administration is about to announce a new partial eviction moratorium covid-related. can you tell us any more about that? and are you sure it's going to pass supreme court muster? >> the answer is twofold. one, i've sought out constitutional scholars to determine what is the best possibil

now is the time to get vaccinated, we know vaccines are working, and we know they save lives. i will turn things over to dr. fauci. dr. fauci: think you very much, dr. wilensky. i'd like to spend a minute or two addressing a concern i continue to hear regarding the speed with which the vaccines were developed. this is usually among people who have a degree of a vaccine hesitancy or reluctance to get vaccinated. it really relates to two things that have gone on that people need to appreciate. one is the logistics and the investment in resources that was me. -- that was made. others is the clinical research that anti-data the developing of the vaccine. what about the logistics of the resources? generally, when you develop a vaccine, the thing that usually takes years to do, you do it in a sequtial fashion, you do something preclinical, phase one, phase two, phase three, then you start manufacturing the product. you do that sequentially because if the first one does not succeed, you don't want to go to the second, third, and fourth step. because of the wise investment in operatio

we know how to keep our schools safe, to vaccinate everyone who can be vaccinated, vaccinate family members, because children cannot yet be vaccinated, and to follow the mitigation strategy in our school guidance, including masking. >> one thing i would add is due to the passage of the american rescue plan several months ago, all schools have the resources to implement the mitigation strategies. next question. >> josh. bloomberg. >> can you give us an update on the plans to start shipping those 500 million pfizer doses meant to come in this month? has that started, and what kind of pace we will see in the coming weeks? thank you. >> the 500 million pfizer does -- doses that were announced in june to be donated to the world, those shipments began this -- do begin this month, and we will ship a total of 200 million by the end of this year, this calendar year, with the remaining 300 million shipped no later than the first half of 2022. so everything is on schedule. shipments are beginning in the next several days. >> next question. >> next question. cbs. >> thanks, kevin. thanks for taking my

the vaccines' full licensure may pave the way for further vaccine mandates. is the administration prepared to go to bat legally for businesses or schools that mandate vaccines? >> yeah, thanks, jeff. let me take the first part of that question. you know, you really have to be careful when you ask for projected timelines, because the fact is, the most prevailing issue involved here is that if we can get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can, as quickly and as efficiently we can particularly in the context of the bla now that has come out from pfizer and the availability of other vaccines on eua. we can end this as a pandemic even sooner than that. so rather than focus on the situation of getting a specific timeline, i would like to appeal to this country to the people in the country who are not vaccinated to realize that we have the capability among ourselves to essentially cut down the timeframe to getting the end of this pandemic very, very clearly by just listening to everything you've heard on this press conference. get vaccinated and the timeframe

so vaccines are key to this. as i said multiple times here today already, they are key along with people wearing masks indoors. they are not as effective as vaccines, but they are another tool that works to slow the spread of the virus. the other thing that we're doing is mandating vaccines in certain settings, including in health care settings, and i think as people know, the city as a whole, the city is requiring employees across departments to become vaccinated, so there is effort to make the vaccine as available as possible. we will bring the vaccine to you. in your house, if you have five or more people ready to get vaccinated, we can make that happen. and the other thing is now that we've made it as easy for people to get vaccinated, we support efforts for people not getting vaccinated. we support requirements for vaccine. a lot of businesses are requiring to show proof of vaccine status. >> we're seeing a lot of questions in the chat about boosters and booster shots, so i'm just going to combine some of th

if you are not vaccinated, please protect yourself and get vaccinated. masks protect you and your family. please wear a mask in public indoor settings goa severe vaccination status. we need -- regardless of your vaccination status. if everyone -- get everyone over the age of 12 in your house vaccinated. we stand here with you, providing science and updated guidance in real-time to keep you and your families safe. thank you. dr. fauci: thank you. i would like to take up on the theme she started with. i going to be spending a couple of minutes addressing two issues that are the attention of the country and the world. the real world effectiveness of vaccines in the context of the delta variant. the second, break through, what they mean. let us discuss them a bit. look at the real world effectiveness against the delta variant. if you look at the three components of pcr confirmed infection, it is 79% in the new case study. symptomatic infection is 88%. the vaccines are doing exactly what we are asking them to do when it comes to keeping you out of the hospita

a politicized vaccinations. -- it politicized vaccinations. what i see is a consciousness among many elected aerobic and officials -- republican officials speaking to their agencies about the need for vaccinations. about taking measures to protect themselves against this. i'm encouraged by that. we have seen the medical doctors within congress step forward and do public service announcements. we have seen the governor of alabama, the governor of arkansas, a number of other folks come forward, senator graham and others making statements to get people to come around. where we are seeing terrible outbreaks where the medical systems are stressed and at a breaking point. where your icu units are full, shortfalls in all sorts of things. you have people directly impacted in terms of deaths of family members. we are seeing a change of political outlook and culture there too. we are seeing people begin to turn back to vaccinate. i am encouraged by that. the other thing that is happening is the pressures to vaccinate is coming from multiple directions.

600 million vaccine donations.are going to be the arsenal vaccines to be this pandemic and the -- as we were the arsenal to win world war ii. the threat of delta remains real. we are prepared. we have the tools. we can do this. for all those of you who are unvaccinated, please get vaccinated. for yourself and your loved ones. your neighborhood, your community. for the rest of america, this is no time to let our guard down. we need to finish the job. the science come up with facts and with confidence. together, as the united states of america, we will get this done. god bless us all, may god protect our troops. thank you. [crosstalk] announcer: more on the pandemic from the white house coronavirus response team. they briefed reporters earlier today. >> white house covid-19 response team offered a plan -- to those who receive the moderna advisor vaccines. this runs 50 minutes. coronavirus response team briefing has begun. we go to that now on c-span. >> we see a rise in

who has been vaccinated. if 100% of people are vaccinated, everybody in the hospital will be vaccinated that if you go to ucsf, and we have 40 patients in the hospital, the vast majority are unvaccinated although san francisco, 75%-80% of people in san francisco are vaccinated. you are well protected but there can be some cases that breakthrough. kristen: vivian wants to know, how about those people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons? does that mean they can't go to indoor places in san francisco? >> i think it probably does. there are very few medical reasons why someone can't be vaccinated. when we look at the indications like fancy medical speak for you can't take the vaccine, it is a very very small number. most people, if they have had allergies to a prior vaccine, can take this vaccine. the group i worry about are people who actually have been vaccinated but the vaccine did taycan those are people who will -- didn't take and those are people who are immunocompromised. it is recommended they ge

, if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinated -- so if you're fully vaccinated versus not vaccinatedence between getting a case of the sniffles versus suffocation and having to go into the hospital with covid-19. i say it's the difference between spending a few days in your bed at home and weeks in the i.c.u. at a hospital. this is not to be taken lightly. these vaccines are life saving and can keep you out of the hospital, and, of course, prevent death. here, an over eight-fold difference, eight times more likely to be hospitalized if you are not fully vaccinated for covid-19. look at this difference between these two bars. incredible difference showing the effectiveness of these vaccines at the local level. next slide. so i also wanted to touch base on the indoor masking order that our san francisco public [inaudible] issued on august 3, requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. this is an effort that aligns with c.d.c. guidance to reduce transmission of covid-19 and everyone due to the widespread covid-19 delta variant. so, you know, this delta variant is really co

the vaccine works. adding a cloth mask on top of being vaccinated? does that take it from being 99, maybe it does, but the reality is i believe if you are vaccinated and you have taken that decision -- and let's be honest. i know some of you will say this is an easy black or white decision that you either believe in the vaccine and get vaccinated or don't. the reality is there are risks associated with taking the vaccine and with not taking the vaccine. there are risks associated with taking the vaccine. i would it to you, the risk associated with being vaccinated is far less than the risk of being on vaccinated. but there are potential side effects and there are -- and we need to be honest with people. you say we don't need to preach at people about what you ought to do or not do, we ought to be honest about the pluses and minuses and people in mississippi can make the good and right decision. reporter: [indiscernible] would you consider safety measures at the state level for those who cannot get vaccinated? gov. reeves: i don't have any intention o

vaccine way vaccine is recommended. at this point, we need to fully evaluate the current situations, why are americans not getting vaccinated? we need to get a meaningful solution to these problems. cost may be part of the problem but there are likely other issues. we will consider hr 979, the vaccine fairness act, which will require -- this is currently already being done by hhs and each community receives vaccine information weekly. we are examining the covid-19 transportation act. this will provide grants for trans porting -- transportation to receive vaccines. transportation should not be a limiting factor for an individual, that there are already several resources available for these services, including uber and lyft. lastly, many areas offer a phone number where an individual can get an appointment and they can help you coordinate a ride. we do have gaps in the vaccine system and i look forward to discussing hr 3742, the vaccine information for nursing facility operators act, which would require nursing homes to p

information about vaccines and access to vaccinations. we will also continue to expand our efforts to increase the supply for other countries building on over 600 million doest that we committed to donate globally. we understand that global pandemics require global response and we will not stop until america and the world are vaccinated against covid-19. i'm speaking to you as your surgeon general but more importantly as an american who felt the pain of losing family members to this disease, and hears each day the stories of live that's have been upended and altered by covid-19. the brave doctors and nurses in our hospitals. the teachers working to get our kids back in school, and the front line workers making sure we can get groceries and supplies. our quickest path to getting covid-19 under control once and for all is getting vaccines to those that need them as quickly as possible. so here is what you need to know. if you're fully vaccinated, you still have a high degree of protection from the worst outcomes of covid-19. severe disease,

vaccines? >> you will get what illnesses cause significant burden in kids. we do see kids with long covid. we are wondering if there is immaterial or a vaccine that has the ability to develop a vaccine for it. and then we are wondering what the risks are the vaccine -- of the vaccine are. i think it always gives me confidence that people are recommending vaccines. it is because the risk of the illness far outweighs the risk of the vaccine. >> i have just read this recently. the technician out -- the tetanus vaccine was created to prevent a disease we never hear about today which is lakhdar. what is that? >> tetanus is something that causes your mouth to spasm. it can be incredibly serious. in my career, i have seen unvaccinated children pass away from it. this is one of the testaments to vaccines. we don't see a lot of vaccine preventable illness anymore because they were so well. i was talking with our senior pediatricians a while ago. he says i remember being a kid when the full vaccine came

vaccinated. what is the science behind that change? asst. sec. levine: we know and have been discussing for months that the delta variant is different. the delta variant has been shown to be more transmissible. it is at least twice as contagious as previous forms of covid-19 we have seen. approximately two months ago, the delta variant was 1% or 2% of the percentage of covid-19 cases we were seeing in the united states. now it is more than 80% of the cases we are seeing. so, because of this more contagious variant, cdc has changed its guidance, in terms of masking. it is recommending if you live in an area with moderate to high spread, community spread of covid-19, that when you're in public, you wear a mask. frances: so that is the broad picture but scientists this week were wanting to see the data and so were the public. i believe that we may see more of the data later today. why the delay? why change the guidance without giving scientists a really good sense of what lay behind it? asst. sec. l

vaccine mandates is to get people vaccinated. caroline: i am curious about developing nations, we saw very little data, are there same issues there, or is it a question of not being able to get it from a supply side issue? is there push back from the population? >> it is not as big of a problem like we have seen in the united states. it is more of an issue of having the supply and having the delivery mechanism to get those vaccines to the people who need them. there still is misinformation and disinformation around vaccines that have created some hesitancy. as in the united states some people still view these vaccines as extreme mental and have concerns -- as experimental and have concerns. in the low income countries, it is a problem with access. this is something that covax, led by the world health organization are really working to address. they have run into some challenges. particularly with the student of india which was supposed to be a major supplier for covax, and needing to deal with the situation in india. not able to