adalja: it is hard to tease that apart.membered they said that about the alpha variant, which was never borne out. i do not know if we can say that for sure. it is something important to study. people have said there is a different spectrum of symptoms. there is a loss of taste and smell. this is something that will take a long time. all we can say for sure is that is more contagious and that is why it is important. lisa: how big of a concern is this for those were vaccinated? dr. adalja: if you are fully vaccinated there is not any evidence the delta variant provides any problem for you. we see with the mrna vaccines that two doses is highly effective at preventing symptomatic disease. it is probably also the case with the johnson & johnson vaccine, especially when you're talking about what matters. a lot of the talk about the delta variant, the fact what we are trying to do in the pandemic is not to get to covid zero and prevent mild illness, it is to prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death, and our vaccines d

adalja: that is where we are going.will be a virus that is with us after the emergency has ended. it will be a routine vaccination where we do not think much of it. it will be given to children at some period of time and it may not be the first generation vaccine. it might be a second generation vaccine that becomes a routine childhood one. matt: just one time? i would think it would be more like the flu vaccine where we get it every season. is that more likely? dr. adalja: i don't think that is likely. we cannot play the time faster than it is going. we have to follow people who have been vaccinated and c are they getting infections severe enough to land them in the hospital. the flu vaccine is given every year because it gets updated. there is a totally different vaccine. we know with all of these vaccines for covid-19, that they work against the variants. there is no reason to update the vaccine. they could be two years, three years, it is impossible to tell until we have followed people who have been vaccinated and

adalja: it depends on where you look. been getting vaccinated, but this is the early days of vaccination in the 12 to 15 your group, so the early adopters are definitely taking advantage of the fact they can get vaccinated. we see some parents you do not want their children to get vaccinated. the news about that link investigated, the rare myocarditis, that is also making some parents vaccine hesitant. i think it is less important to see vaccine hesitancy in the 12 to 16 or 17-year-old group than it is to see in the adult group, because we know children in general will be less likely to be severely sick with covid-19, and less likely to spread it. i think there is vaccine hesitancy, but which we -- what we are looking at now is the adult population, where we want to see the needle move. those are the people that will be more likely to be hospitalized, especially getting older, overweight, or any other comorbidities. i think we are on a good trajectory to end this because of the high-risk population, about three quarters f

adalja: that we are hitting a wall.the people who wanted to be vaccinated have gotten vaccinated, and that it will take additional effort to get doses in people's arms. that will leave people vulnerable. i'm in the hospital now and the people that we are seeing getting covid are on vaccinated -- not vaccinated. we will still see cases, we will still see disruption. in general, we have tamed the virus and it simply to crush a hospital because so many have been vaccinated, but if we want covid to not be a major problem, the more people that are vaccinated, the better it will be. matt: that is great news in the u.s. we still have these serious emergencies at hospitals outside of the u.s. in terms of americans, it seems like it would be so easy to get out and get a vaccination, from what i read, from the people i talked to back home. what are the reason people tell you when they come into the hospital and have not gotten a vaccination yet? dr. adalja: it is varied. each is different, some is procrastination. that is where m

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adalja: it's really all of the above.sease, that is a national security emergency and it's incumbent on governments to think about public health infrastructure as part of national security infrastructure. right now we have a chance to get this right and enable the u.s. government in terms of pandemic funding as well as globally with ngos that are engaged making research they are involved in. that's where a lot of the failures happen, of the fact local health departments didn't have the ability to test or contact trace. now everybody -- when everyone's been talking about decade after decade. lisa: i'm shocked tom did not start with the idea with alpha betacam a delta. the new names because the old names were too confusing. the question is going forward will we get a debate, -- will we get a debate -- beta or gamma that will break through? jonathan: we might have lost him there. you just put them to sleep. about the greeks. lisa: this is interesting. they came up with names for variants at this point. they sort of designate

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amesh adalja. always terrific to see you.fferent technology than the pfizer and moderna vaccines or astrazeneca and johnson & johnson vaccine. it's a vaccine that they do a lot of technical chemistry and biology to isolate the gene for the coronavirus, they put it in a different type of virus, grow it in cells and the cells becomes a factory that pumps out the protein that they make. it's a very innovative vaccine, an interesting platform that will have a lot of uses down the line past covid-19, this is another great option that's likely to be on the world's market soon. dagen: what uses potentially are you talking about for this technology, if you will? >> this technology has already been used for example in another flu vaccine, something called flu block, named by asnofi. it's a similar type of approach that's used in flu vaccines, it tends to work better than many other flu vaccines. novavax has been trying this, so has sanofi for some time, trying to find a way to use this technology. i think it's just another example of

we heard from amesh adalja, the infectability of the delta variant.n: is that a word -- lisa: is that a word? tom: i don't think it is. s&p futures flat. dow futures green. all of this fractional. the major observation today is dollar strength, not a breakout but we will go with it. the euro breaching 1.19. 1.1881. coming up, conversation with mayor of washington, d.c. stay with us on radio and television. ♪ jonathan: from new york city for our audience worldwide good morning, good morning. equities coming into tuesday at record highs. the countdown to the open starts right now. >> everything you need to get set for the start of u.s. trading. this is "bloomberg: the open" with jonathan ferro. ♪ jonathan: from new york, we begin with the big issue. covid variants clouding the outlook. >> the delta variant. >> the spread of the delta variant. >> the delta very it will be in issue. >> it is the key tail risk to watch right now that could potentially derail things. >> the travel restrictions are still in place for many countries. >> that could open the pa

amesh adalja with johns hopkins university joins us on this incredibly busy day with a quick brief fromuer of johns hopkins as well. we are going to get to zero deaths. then what do we do? lauren: the first thing we will do is continue to maintain the push for vaccination as mentioned earlier. we will see that this becomes a childhood vaccination. this will go into the toolkit we have to protect children as they get ready for school, as they get ready to go out to the public, and give them the immunization to really keep those cases low and make sure we do not come to a place where we have unvaccinated adults who are very susceptible, or even unvaccinated children who are susceptible. tom: i look at the children susceptible. how close are we to a vaccination for the young offspring, under 12 years old? lauren: we are getting there. it is exciting to see. the 12 euros and up are starting to get -- the 12-year-olds and up are starting to get vaccinated. tom: i don't mean to interrupt, but when a 14-year-old gets vaccinated and demands a trip, is that part of the medical prescription? laur

adalja.gic milestone, 600,000 covid deaths in the united states. given the progress we've made, do you think we'll ever reach 700,000 deaths? >> it's going to take a longer time to get to 700,000 than it did to get from 400,000 to 500,000 because we've gotten so many of our high risk individuals vaccinated. we know the deaths are concentrated in those above 65, those with underlying conditions. i think we'll still see deaths occur. it's going to be some time before we hit 700,000. because our vaccine rollout was so successful in those high risk groups. >> let me ask you about what dr. rochelle walensky, the cdc director, had to say. she is concerned about the number of adolescents currently hospitalized as a result of covid-19. she strongly encourages teens to wear masks until they can get fully inoculated. there is a lot of talk about how this virus affects young people. what did today's cdc report tell us from your vantage point? >> it's important to remember you kind of have to dig into th