joining us to discuss it is andy slavitt.is the biden administration's former-senior adviser for covid response. his new book is called "preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." mr. slavitt, good evening, good to see you, again. >> joshua. >> so what do you make of that remark? acknowledge the war has changed, especially in light of this new-cdc report? >> well, the job of the cdc to keep up with all the changes that we are seeing with the virus, and to report to us, honestly and clearly. and what the cdc's seeing now is, what? they are seeing a virus that can spread among unvaccinated people, in as little as five minutes. they are seeing some erosion of the level of efficacy of the vaccine, towards the end of people who have been taking it for a while. they are seeing some other issues, which are causing local communities to see more and more pervasive threat. so, what they've said, basically, is this looks like a different virus than the 2020

andy slavitt, great to have you back on the "newshour". you recently co-authored a letter with a bipartisan group of former government officials and public health experts, urging the private sector to do more in this regard. let's say companies do take up your call, how much will that, in fact, move the needing? -- the needle. >> we know there's about 25 million americans who say that, if they were asked by or required by their employer or feed to be vaccinated in order to get into major venues or gather in crowds, that they would, without objection, get vaccinated. what that tells us is there's a number of people to whom getting vaccinated is neither a big positive or a big negative, it's just not a big priority. so we need leadership from all across society, not just the government, but people who are trusted by individuals and who can lead individuals and corporations over the next big horizon. so if ewith do our jobs and corporations step up, we can go from about 70% of adult americans vaccinated to 80%, and that would make an enormous

we welcome andy slavitt, who served as white house responder for covid response.r of preventable. thanks much for being whack -- for being back with us. we are happy to have you with us because crossing the

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also, andy slavitt, former senior advise for the biden administration. dr. wen, stark words from the director of the cdc tonight. how does this surge get turned around? i mean, what's the most important thing people should be doing tonight? or tomorrow morning when they go to work? >> well, i think there are two things that are equally important, when it comes to turning around the surge. wh one, of course, the ultimate answer is vaccination. we know that what will stop the virus in its tracks, and really is our only and best way out of the pandemic is to increase our vaccination rates because if we have a high enough level of immunity in the u.s., then we're able to stop this virus from wreaking the type of havoc that it is. but the second thing is, it is going to take a while for people to get vaccinated. even if everybody went out tomorrow, who's unvaccinated, and got their first dose. we're still talking about over a month before they're all, finally, able to be fully vaccinated. and so, in that meantime, we are going to have to look at the type of -- of

my pleasure to introduce andy slavitt. >> good morning, good afternoon.thank you for having me join you mayor and thank you for your leadership. let me spend two minutes emphasizing a couple of points. first of all, the delta vaccine, the delta variant is a very different kind of covid than what people may remember and have experienced from 2020. if you're not vaccinated, only five minutes of exposure can infect you, and this is something that in a city like new york could cause a widespread outbreak if not for leadership and action. >> you have been listening to andy slavitt explain along with mayor bill de blasio the significant, significant new requirement that is now in place in new york. the mayor describing what he calls the key to the city pass if you will. the requirement that you show proof of vaccination in order to do things like go to restaurants indoors, go to gyms indoors, entertainments indoors, et cetera. as you heard him describe, there will be a bit of a ramp up to this, starting august 16th. the enforcement will begin in a month and cha

joining us now is andy slavitt, former biden administration white house senior adviser for covid response, the author of "t "the inside leadership, failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the coronavirus response. good to see you.s leadership failures, politics and selfishness continue to be detrimental to us. there are selfish people out there who are challenging those of us who are vaccinated.e you're vaccinated. how do you address what's going on right now? >> well, look, i think we -- as we sit here today with 30% of adults not vaccinated, we have a highly contagious variant that is much more contagious than the 2020 variety of covid-19, can get covid in five minutes of exposure if you are not vaccinated. it's time to look at the next s co ff easures, including not r just looking at government, but having employers step up and say time to be safe in our workplace. if you are going to come to a workplace and expose people who are going to expose their kids to covid-19, you saw the story in florida, it's time for you to demonstrate that you are not going to spread covid by getting va

joining me is andy slavitt, former senior adviser to biden's white house covid response team. andy, thank you for being here. i think biden's shift yesterday was important. i want to play for everyone just to remind them of what he said to governors. >> i say to these governors, please help. if you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way of the people trying to do the right thing. >> do you believe that governor desantis and governor abbott are personally making decisions that are harming their own citizens? >> i believe the results of their decisions are not good for their constituents. >> it's now less help me help you and more kind of taking them to the mat. do you think this is the right approach, andy? >> some of us are glad the president is taking this tact. he's doing it for the simple reason, he wants to leave no american behind. if you live in florida, he cares about you as much as those in delaware. ron desantis can choose to get vaccinated or not get vaccinated. if he really believes in local school control, what's the principle he's jumping on to say they

tom: andy slavitt, formally with the biden white house as a senior advisor.emocrat i would suggest republicans listen to, enough medical prestige to make people lean forward. jon ferro on sabbatical. kailey leinz, lisa abramowicz, and tom keene to get your friday started. andy pekosz now, with johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health -- i should note that it is mr. bloomberg's philanthropy at johns hopkins. i noticed the cdc -- is the normal operation of measles, mumps, and rubella, 15 months old, then a booster shot at 5-year-old, and it is a no big deal. why is a booster shot of covid a big deal? andy: right now, we are dealing with massive surges of cases. with the measles virus, case numbers are normally quite low, so vaccination rates that give you moderate immunity initially are enough to keep the virus down. you then boost the immunity later to get a protectant -- protection for most of your lifetime. sars-cov-2 is starting to change a little bit. not as much as influenza, but it is showing the ability to change. and we have not gotten anywhere

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. >> joining us now is andy slavitt, former senior adviser for covid response and author. also cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. gupta gumt. sanjay, we just talked to fauci and he talked about how tomorrow the fda is expected to announce a third vaccine dose for immunocompromised. what do you make of what he said about third doses for the general population? do you think the u.s. should be more aggressive in this? >> well, you know, i think it makes sense for the immunocompromised right now for some of the reasons dr. fauci was talking about. you know that people who are immunocompromised and who've been vaccinated in the past, we know besides having lower antibody levels, they're far more likely to get sick, 485 times more likely to be hospitalized. it's not just they have fewer antibodies, it means they're getting sicker as a result. let me show you something from the new england journal of medicine published yesterday. it basically shows in transplant recipients, people considered immunocompromised, after the first two shots they had lower antibody levels. but impor

let's bring in andy slavitt, the author of preventible. how failures, politics and selfish know doomed the u.s. coronavirus response. andy, i'm really happy to talk to you. mostly because i usually sit at the white house and have a lot of questions about what has transpired. i want to talk about what dr. fauci said today about the current surge. >> i don't think we'll see lockdowns. i think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak but i believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. but things will get worse. >> it was the add-on in the end that kind of caught me. it sounds a little counter intuitive. i know what he was referring to there and it is a delicate political process. if things will get worse, wouldn't more covid restrictions in hot spots mitigate some of that concern? >> i think the big difference between last year is that this year, we didn't have any s scientific tools. we just had prirmts we stay away from one another. today we have the option

my pleasure to introduce andy slavitt. >> good morning, good afternoon.e join. >> you're listening to bill de blasio announcing a new innovative measure to respond to the ongoing covid 19 outbreak. the interroduction to a key to c pass, in effect proof of vaccination which if folks get that, it is not requiring that, but if folks get that, they would then have access to many public events such as broadways, sporting events, et cetera. athena jones has been following this story. this is an interesting approach. because we've been discussing mandates. here is in effect i guess you could call it a carrot, right, to folks to get vaccinated and then give them access to a broad range of public events. >> it is been a couple of weeks now we've been seeing an increasing number of mandates. whether it is from private businesses or from cities. this is going way further than anything we've seen so far. the city is calling this the first in the nation vaccine requirement for workers and customers and it is not just to go to broadway, to do any indoor dining. so to e

did andy slavitt leave the white house too early. many people thought, if he's out, we're out. nth tour. i know him well. jeff is really running the show from the standpoint of coordinating across all the different components. so the key players are still there. this was always going to be one final wave of infection. we would always have a wave of infection. we thought it would be in the fall, we thought it would be on 1-7. we thought it would be against the backdrop of more vaccination. it's happening earlier with more contagious variant. but the end game would be one final wave of infection and the country was going to be somewhat exhausted and sweep over the country with minimal existence. we weren't going to go back to lockdowns and intrusive form of mitigation. it's happening against the backdrop of a more vulnerable population. but the end game will always be one final wave. right now, there's 90 million americans who are eligible to be vaccinated. probably about 40 million of them have had covid previously from prior waves of infection. at least 50 million americans that

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the president's former-senior adviser for covid response, andy slavitt, joins us live. >>> also, a reporthouse, just by re-districting four southern states. it is mathematically possible

andy slavitt is a former biden administration for covid response -- we appreciate your time.president biden's infrastructure proposals have brought into what i like to call the fox chicken corn problem. there is no logic possibly may have done in the middle school math class about a farmer who has to transport of fox, chicken, and bag of corn across the river in a boat that can only hold him and one other thing at a time. the problem is, left alone, the fox today the chicken, the chicken with the corn. the farmer that has to do a multi-step back and forth process to ferried them all across the river without anyone eating anyone or any one else. congress's got a similar order of operations puzzle to solve. chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi are the farmers in this metaphor, who got us all there -- to solve it. the bipartisan trillion infrastructure package started today with a debate on the 200,000 page -- progressive leaders in the house say they have enough votes to tank it once against back to the house's -- house, and the senate does not pass the 3.5 billion infr

it is from andy slavitt who writes, i am hopeful that covid is reaching a peak in southern states.o this is stopping the spread in schools, which is also a really good idea. talk about why this is so critical. >> yeah, i think that, you know, what i liked about andy pointing this out is that, look, you know, you have seen delta move through this piece finding people who are vulnerable, who don't have immunity towards this and in some cases people who had the disease and unfortunately are getting it again because with the delta variant we are seeing reinfections. once you get to the point where in the current status quo most of the people have been exposed, the new factor that is changing is colleges will open, more kids will go to school and now you will have -- that's what is going to change, right. so this those settings more vulnerable people may be exposed, so protecting our children is one way to keep the peak from continuing to go up because that's where the new cases are coming from. we've seen increases in pediatric cases, it is not news. we are seeing it with delta with th