hospitalizations and deaths also up, but almost all of those people are unvaccinated, andy slavitt. seeing, especially what's coming from the right media, is that's what's happening here? >> this is the unvaccinated pandemic. i think that's the theme of 2021. we learned something interesting. it's so profound, sometimes i can't even believe it. but of all the people that aren't vaccinated, we now know from the data that two-thirds of them believe one of five provably false statements about the vaccine. and so that tells us that there are at least in part, if not in full, influence of things that aren't true that they're hearing from people. i would like to think that happens innocently but you and i both know, don, a lot of it is perpetrated by a machine that says we have to stop this thing from being successful for whatever reason. >> give me some of the five. >> that the covid vaccine itself will give you covid. that's one . so, you know, and the other four can all be found in a survey done by kaiser family foundation. and we can play those, we can get you those for you to show. b

. >>> i want to turn to andy slavitt now. he's the former white house senior adviser for covid response and the author of "preve "preve "preventable." what's happening with this variant, andy slavitt. thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. we were really getting really close to a normal summer, but now these cases are up 145% from just two weeks ago. hospitalizations and death also up, but almost all of those people are unvaccinated, andy slavitt. is this the toll that this misinformation that we're seeing, especially what's coming from the right media, is that what's happening here? >> well, this is the unvaccinated pandemic. i think that's the theme of 2021. and we learned something interesting, and it's so profound, sometimes i can't even believe it. but of all the people that aren't vaccinated, we now know from the data that two-thirds of them believe one of five provably false statements about the vaccine. and so that tells us that they're at least in part, if not in full, being influenced by things that aren't

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. >>> joining me now is andy slavitt. it is good to see you, andy. thanks for being here. so it is very interesting hearing the president last night talking about covid and where things could be heading fors. president said the guidance for schools is likely to be that kids under 12 need to wear masks. a lot of kids over 12 are still not vaccinated. we know that. and it is not necessarily clear what public schools or any schools are actually going to be requiring masks for even unvaccinated kids. can you explain how this guidance that he's talking about is going to keep kids safe, because school is about to start up in a couple of weeks in a lot of places. >> well first of all, i think president biden was doing last night was doing his job. talking directly to the american public. taking questions, acknowledging that things are hard. but also buoyed by the optimism that we have a solution at our finger tips in vaccines. i think for people not vaccinated and people under 12 are at the top of the list. i think the advice to continue to wear a mask and take other steps to pro

. >>> joining us now is the former white house senior adviser for covid-19 response, andy slavitt. he's also the author of the new book "preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doom the u.s. coronavirus response." there is still this preventable element we should mention, andy, of folks who are unvaccinated still at this point. i want to get your reaction to something as we are looking toward children being vaccinated. what do you think about england's chief medical officer saying that that country needs more data from around the world before deciding whether to vaccinate kids? >> well, good morning, brianna. here in the u.s., as everyone knows, we have vaccines approved for americans 12 and older, and there is i think really good evidence that the vaccine is highly tolerated among americans 12 to 18. the tweens and teens. we saw an outbreak in galveston, texas, at a camp where teens were not vaccinated. hundreds of people got covid and it's being spread beyond that to adults. and the instances, there are instances that people should be awa

. >> joined by andy slavitt. given your experience at white house leading the charge in the covid response, it's ludicrous and dangerous what he said. how do you respond? >> yeah. i don't think the bible taking apparatus is quite built out of the white house yet. it's unfashionable to say you are anti-vaccine. if you are representing a lot of constituents that are anti-vaccine and you want to play to your base, the right strategy is to make these subtle jabs and to suggest that because the government is involved in it somehow, it is therefore fascism. i think that is the kind of marjorie taylor greene, you heard it here, you know you hear it constantly. what that does is it takes people in the path of the storm -- the delta storm and it makes them think that, i don't need to get vaccinated. i'm brave. i'm tough. the government is more of a threat to me. that's unfortunate. it crosses a number of lines we shouldn't cross. >> you recently went to twitter. i want to read a portion of it. it's lengthy, but i think it

it offers us the opportunity to bring in andy slavitt, the former white house senior adviser for president biden's covid response team. so andy, it's pretty clear that this has become the pandemic of the unvaccinated. you heard harry talk about the difference between fox news viewers and viewers of other news outlets. when you were at the white house, did you ever personally have a discussion with anyone from fox news about the role they need to play in helping to save lives? okay. sorry. obviously, we're having an issue with andy's audio right now. we are going to see if we can work out that technical difficulty and try and get andy back here in a second. actually, andy is back. andy, i believe i can hear you now. can you hear me? >> it was not the mute button, i promise. >> all right. no problem. so answer that question for me if you remember. >> yes, well, i actually went on fox news a number of times. most of us believe that this should not be and doesn't need to be a political conversation. i think we started out that way. and as with masks, i think there were people who had other ide

also with us andy slavitt. "preventable, the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." mr. slavitt, you helped to lead the covid response from the white house, not long ago. should -- should this push against the spread of misinformation? should it have started long ago? i mean, before things got this far? >> today is a day that it -- it reached a new level with the surgeon general putting out a report. effectively, saying that we have to call this out by name. we can't just accept the fact that this is part of our society. but the surgeon general and i, both, um, spoke, very frequently, to the social-media platforms. and it was an ongoing battle, frankly. and today's the day when vivek surgeon general decided to make it public and tell the public that this is akin to people who pollute the -- our water and our air and our drinking system, when they pollute our minds with -- with -- with lies. it's very much the same and i think it's a great move b

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we have three guests, including cnn's oliver darcy is also here, but let's turn first to andy slavitt, part of president biden's covid response team and author of the book about how america doomed the coronavirus response. andy, how should this covid concern be framed by the international media? >> well, brian, we all think about risk quite differently. some of us would be willing to go out into the pouring rain without an umbrella, some won't carry an umbrella. i think that's what you're talking about. if you carry an umbrella, meaning you get vaccinated, it doesn't mean you may not get a little bit wet, but you're really protecting yourself in a dramatic way. look, this is all an emotional experience for us as much as it is an intellectual one. when we hear about case counts going up, when we hear about parts of the country where hospitals are filling up, we do get empathetic, we do get a fear response, but when you state 100 million americans have been vaccinated, very through have been getting covid breakthrough cases, but some will. some will take wet, they'll take that risks. th

talking to former white house adviser andy slavitt in a podcast. >> we can see that there is a drop in protection of infections and there is a drop in the protection against hospitalizations but only for people, or mainly for people that they are six months -- that they did six months ago their second dose. >> reporter: and more vaccine mandates could be on the way. the president saying that he is considering the requirement for all federal employees, george. >> okay, eva, thanks. >>> let's bring in cdc director dr. rochelle walensky right now. dr. walensky, thanks for joining us again. your decision caught a lot of people by surprise. we've been hearing for weeks that if you take the vaccine, you're safe. what changed? >> good morning, george. thanks for having me. so, first, i want to just comment that we've known the delta has been very contagious. we've seen areas of the country that are -- have more and more cases right now, our cases are up. our hospitalizations are up, and for months we've been saying if you are unvaccinated, if you have a lot of disease, please, please wear you

former white house adviser andy slavitt says he thinks that president biden should get very aggressive in turning up the heat on unvaccinated people. do you agree, and do you share governor ivey's anger? >> well, i'm very frustrated. i generally don't like to get involved in blaming people, because i think that would maybe push them back even more rather than -- i mean i could totally understand the governor's frustration. i don't have any problem with that. she has every right to be frustrated. what i would really like to see is more and more of the leaders in those areas that are not vaccinated to get out and speak out and encourage people to get vaccinated. i was very heartened to hear people like steve scalise come out and say we need to get vaccinated. even governor desantis in florida is saying the same thing. we've got to get more people who relate well to the individuals who are not getting vaccinated to get out there and encourage them to get vaccinated as well as the trusted messengers in the community. we've just got to do better, jake, because we have the tools to do this.

" program former senate majority y leader bill frist republican of tennessee talks with author andy slavittormer senior advisor in the biden administration about u.s. response to the coronavirus pandemic. >> host: ante, it's great to be with you today and so, so many ways to talk like a great book. >> guest: great to be with you again, senator tremor , lm excited to talk about your book just out, "preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response" a great book. it's an insiders account behind the scenes look to say painful at times but a real eye-opener. there's so much we can talk about but let's jump right in and start with the big picture. what is the top line overview, 30,000 foot look, and why why did you write this book? >> guest: well look, handling to find in his heart and we all ought to be forgiving of kind of honest mistakes in people

in fact, andy slavitt recommended before president biden made a big speech one night, he said i give i think many of them said it will be 18 months before we get a vaccine, and that's if everything goes perfectly and nothing goes perfectly. 18 months would be where we are today. can you imagine if we were just now getting the emergency use authorization for one of those vaccines? >> god forbid, to borrow your faith mechanism. but let me ask you this. imagine where we would be if the designer of operation warp speed in a way, certainly at the top of the food chain, president trump, had told people to take the vaccine, had told people he had taken it, and that he had given it to his family, and that he pushed it robustly. and people like you had been on him to do so when he wasn't. >> i think he did. he went on television and told people he took the vaccine. >> he did it as little as he could, doctor, and you know it. >> people need to do their own research, figure things out. you don't have to be told by your government whether it's a good or bad thing. figure it out. look at the dise

joining me now, someone who has been critical to getting us masked and vaxed, andy slavitt, the formerd response adviser and author of the new book, preventable the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed u.s. coronavirus response. andy, president biden wanted 70% of adults to get at least one shot by july 4th. he is going to fall short, barely short. where are we in the fight right now? >> stephanie, good morning, look we have come quite a distance from when president biden and we had less than 2% of americans with a first shot. nower with close to 67% as you just showed. i don't think we should be worried about the difference between 67 and 70% as much as we should be worried about the fact that there are parts of the country that have 40 to 50% of adults with their first shot and other parts are in better shape. with the delta variant coming the parts of the country and the people that are vaccinate ready in relatively good shape. i think they should be relaxed about the delta variant. but people who are living in communities with a lot of people wh

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joined by andy slavitt president biden's former senior adviser for covid response.preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." mr. slavitt, i mean, that is the thing that is so frustrating about this, is that this was preventable and that this delta variant, you know, the toll it's taking and is going to take could have been prevented had more people been vaccinated. we just heard about the change in some republicans when it comes to their public messaging about the vaccine, and that's certainly to be applauded. last night in our town hall president biden said that some in right-wing media had a, quote, altar call when it comes to vaccine. should republican leadership be doing more within their own ranks to help bring people around? >> you know, i think when you play politics with the vaccine you're playing with fire and you're playing with you're own constituents' lives. so it would make a hell of a lot of sense to do what sean hannity did. and look, they can be people that disagree with m

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part of me says should andy slavitt have his job back? does the white house need a covid coordinator again? >> it's a great question, steph, and i think the answer is what dr. tom frieden just pointed out. since the start of the biden administration, nearly all of the pandemic policy, all of that decision-making has been left in the hands of public health officials, not politicians. that is precisely the way president biden has wanted it. he's wanted pandemic policy free of political interference following what we saw under president trump. but the unintended consequence of that is that the white house has appeared flat-footed when they are fielding all of these questions about these consequential moves and directives and recommendations coming from the cdc and there is not a clear, concise and comprehensive message. i can tell you, though, beyond that, the mood within the white house is just one of frustration. president biden spoke to this himself yesterday. here you have a safe, effective, free and widely available, readily available v

in the past, but you worked with democrats and you worked with the republicans, people who know andy slavitt is you are very forthcoming and in the book it's painted that way, it's in your tweets, it's in social media. but continually you work closely with republicans to say the trust you, they know who you are and with democrats, you work with both democrats it out. it's important for listeners of people read the book to know that. you advise members of the top administration to you would describe much of that in your book, and in the book it says, i'll read this, i was one of the few people and certainly one of the only democrats, you say in the book, who was talking to the trump white house on a regular basis during the first year of the pandemic. and i had developed a clear understanding of what was wrong with their response. anything else to elaborate just a little bit more? already introduced, but where was the central failure? you mentioned that things were turned over to the states and the fact that much of the signs was squelched to the side. was there any one central failing that w

i'm joined by andy slavitt, the former senior adviser for covid response, in the biden white house.book out preventable: "the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness, doomed the us coronavirus response" it isa it is a suitable title in mind we are at the moment. i dare say that where it is selfishness you used in mind of some of the politics over the last year, but i wonder if you think that there is a selfishness among those who are refusing to get vaccinated now.— among those who are refusing to get vaccinated now. well, good evening, aood to be vaccinated now. well, good evening, good to be with _ vaccinated now. well, good evening, good to be with you. _ vaccinated now. well, good evening, good to be with you. you _ vaccinated now. well, good evening, good to be with you. you know, - vaccinated now. well, good evening, good to be with you. you know, i - good to be with you. you know, i think that sometimes we forget that so many people are dependent upon us in order to survive in this world, you know, in the us, we certainly price our individual libert