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with the baylor college national school of tropical medicine, peter hotez.o drive to the close. are there earnings out today? taylor: we do not get the earnings story. i was going to say to ed hyman, it is incredible. whirlpool is raising prices up to 12%. consumers are not blinking. it is unbelievable. tom: the key thing is the number 12%. it is like the rent up 6%. these are not incremental price increases and the cuteness of how many tomatoes in the can jack welch was talking about. taylor: we will do inflation for you and real wages. tom: we know the mcdonald's conversation. he runs 50 miles a week. taylor riggs runs about 60 miles a week, and i do not. taylor: stop eating mcdonald's. tom: nice to join us today. thank you so much. stay with us on bloomberg radio and bloomberg television. good morning. ♪ jonathan: live from new york, 30 minutes away from the opening bell. 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,

. >> that's a month ago, a month ago doctor peter hotez said something very similar my program here. that proved scientific foresight it upset the prominence as fox news. >> they just can't let the pandemic go. at some point, they're gonna have to let -- break the illusion. >> well it's like some of these people get put out there all the time when they have been dead wrong over the last year. >> but porter cortez hasn't been dead wrong now. you don't have to be a doctor to see this. things haven't changed. the fact is that delta variant is more trans miscible, people are congregating as though the disease was gone, and if they're not vaccinated, they're just gonna catch it and transmitted. that's what's happening. even in places like the uk, where they have a greater vaccination rate where people have received at least one dose, today the country reported more than 42,000 new cases. that's a lot. but, thankfully, less than 15 deaths, and that's the one good news from the uk. very important, and a lesson here. even as cases have spiked, the death numbers are nowhere near what they wou

. >> but peter hotez hasn't been dead wrong, not dead wrong now. you don't have to be a doctor to see this, right? the fact that the delta variant's more transmissible, mass vaccination helps slow its spread but if people are congregating as if the disease was gone and if they're not vaccinated, greater vaccination rate received at least one dose than we do, today the country reported more than 42,000 new cases. that's a lot but thankfully less than 50 deaths. that's the one good news in the u.k. and very important than a lesson here. even as cases have spiked the death numbers are nowhere near what they would be without the vaccine. that's because people older than 65 are the most vaccinated group in the u.k. and the age group most susceptible to dieing from covid. that's the hope here. i mean, i don't think we should see anything like we have seen in previous waves of this pandemic because thankfully by and large the most vulnerable americans are vaccinated. that's not totally comprehensive. there are still people immunocompromised, can't get the

peter hotez, co-director of the center for vaccine development at texas children's hospital and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. dr. hotez, always good to have you on. i want to ask you about what we heard from dr. scott gottlieb. he said that the u.s. is vastly underestimating the spread of the delta variant, namely because those who are vaccinated are no longer getting tested. i guess what should vaccinated americans be doing right now? should they go back to what life was like before they got the vaccine, should they bewaring masks, should they be tested regularly, what should they be doing? >> it may depend on where in the country they are. first of all, the delta variant, dr. gottlieb is correct, is very aggressive. it is twice as transmissible as the original lineage. clearly, we should anticipate anyone who has not been vaccinated and not been recently infected with covid, their luck is about to run out and there's a high likelihood they're now going to get infected. that is the terrible tragedy, especially here in the south where so few young adults an

peter hotez from texas children's hospital. nice to see you, doctor. you've been watching the science you're against the booster shot, at least right now. what brings you to that conclusion? >> well, you know, pamela, i think we ultimately will need to give a third immunization, i've been saying that all along. we will need to give that booster. what that booster will do is jack up virus neutralizing antibodies to a high level and create more resilience against the variants. that's important because we've done a terrible job at vaccinating the african continent and south america. but the way this press release was done, i don't think we need it for the delta variant and i don't think we necessarily need it now. so that's what's so confusing and what the basis for it is, they cited some israel data showing low levels of protection against symptomatic illness. but protected well from serious illness and the numbers were better coming out of england, scotland and canada. i think that's the basis for the -- i don't want to call it a rebuke but the counter

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peter hotez, we thank you for clearing that up. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> of course. >>> gymnastics great simone biles dropping out of two more olympic events as she battles the twisties. the behind the scenes look she gave the world at her struggles. plus, reaction from someone who knows a lot about the pressures of the olympic stage. amanda borden, captain of the magnificent 7 u.s. women's gymnastics team joining us live after a quick break. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. control feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. at carvana, we treat every customer like we would treat our own moms, with care and respect. to us, the little things are the big things. which is why we do everything in our power to make buying a car an unforgettable experience. happy birthday. thank you. we treat every customer like we would treat our own moms. because that's what they deserve. when you earn a degree with university of phoenix, we support you with career coaching, includ

peter hotez, your expertise is always appreciated here.hanks. >>> we have an update for you from surfside, florida, where recovery efforts continue as the death toll takes higher with more bodies being recovered. 86 people are confirmed dead. 43 remain unaccounted for. the grim job of searching through debris and rubble is moving at a faster pace, but while crews are working around clock they say it is taking a physical and emotional toll that's weighing on them. cnn's natasha chen has their story. >> reporter: on sunday the remaining members of the israeli rescue people will leave the building collapse site. local leaders thanked them and other first responders at a ceremony at a church a few blocks away from here and then they walked to the seaview hotel to meet with family members of victims. it's been emotional with search teams finding not only people, but belongings, signs of the lives lived there. children's toys, passports, photo albums among the rubble. families are still eagerly awaiting news about their loved ones. 86 people are

peter hotez, thank you so much. there's so much to talk about so i hope we see you again soon. >>> let's go to the breaking news, the culmination of a four-day 27-mile march through the streets of texas to protect voting rights. it is led by the poor peoples' campaign, black voters matter and beto o'rourke. all three of them leading the charge. gary, welcome to you. it's day four of this march. what are you seeing? >> reporter: alex, activists and organizers love to say they're bringing street heat, emphasis on the heat. it's a hot one today but there are still thousands of people out here today at the texas state capitol to protest, and to rally for federal voting rights legislation. that's really what they want here. they're calling on president biden to do anything related to this. and back in washington, it's a little bit of a different mood. the president, the vice president and congressional leadership met yesterday at the white house to talk about a path forward for this federal voting rights legislation and

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peter hotez, we feel for you. you have your work cut out for you. try to get some sleep, and we'll talk to you again soon. >> thank you, alisyn. . >>> all right, the 2020 tokyo olympics are finally under way after being delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. the opening ceremony was complete with fireworks but it was missing a stadium full of spectators because of the rising covid infections in tokyo. four-time olympic basketball gold medallist sue bird and baseball player eddy alvarez carried the flag for team usa at the opening ceremony as first lady jill biden looked on. and tennis champion naomi osaka lit the olympic cauldron. but amid all the fanfare, protests,people still demanding the games be canceled. selena wang is in tokyo with more. tell us what's happening with the protests and what the ioc president is saying. >> reporter: well, alisyn, officials were hoping that once the games officially got kicked off in more beautiful athletic performances were shown for the world, that japanese public sentiment would turn, but stil

peter hotez.eveloping a low cost vaccine for global distribution. he also happens to serve as co-director for vaccination at texas children's and baylor college of medicine. just take for our audience who may not be familiar with you, take a brief moment at the top and tell good people watching how and why it is in your life, you have become so familiar, let's say, with the anti-vax crowd? >> yeah. i wish it were for good reasons, brian. thanks for asking me. i'm a vaccine scientist and pediatrician and devoted my life the developing vaccines, mostly for poverty-related diseases. i took coronavirus vaccines about ten years ago but i'm also the parent of four adult kids including rach heel has oughtism and intellectual disabilities. a few years ago i wrote a book called vaccines did not cause rachel's autism, debunking that there is a link that vaccines cause autism. showing there is no link with what we know of the genetics of autism. unfortunately, that may be the number one thing. one called nev

peter hotez. author of the aptly titled "preventing the next pandemic vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science." also joining us, michael osterholm. dr. hotez, so, admiral brett giroir, the former assistant health secretary under the previous administration warns that the delta variant is so contagious that, if you have not been vaccinated and you did not, previously, have covid, you will become infected. what does that mean for children under the age of 12, who are ineligible to be vaccinated? >> well, it really depends on where those kids are, especially as schools open. and -- and the big vulnerability that i'm sounding the alarm about is the -- what's going on here, in the south. for instance, the state of louisiana, you've got where delta variant is accelerating now and kids are, already, starting to show up in pediatric intensive-care units. you have only got 17% of the adolescents vaccinated. 15, 16, 17% of the adolescents vaccinated. maybe, 30 to 40% of young adults. you've got the delt

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peter hotez about the mask guidance first to meg tirrell the cdc's recommendation applies to well most of the country, right? >> yes, it does, shep. the cdc is making this guidance for areas with substantial or high transmission. take a look at this map. that's all the counties in red and orange all together it's almost two-thirds of all counties in the united states. it's ametric based both on the spread of covid, how many people have the virus, as well as whether counties are able to do enough testing to stay on top of it the cdc also saying that fully vaccinated people who aren't in hot spots might still want to mask indoors if they or someone they live with are at higher risk of severe disease or kids under 12 who can't yet be vaccinated white house press secretary jen psaki was pressed on the cdc's about-face and said even though the previous guidance was two months ago things changed rapidly. >> the reality is we're dealing with a different strain of this virus than we were even earlier in the spring, back in may, when the masking guidance was done, provided by the cdc at that ti

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well, you get an outbreak precisely like peter hotez said would happen. peter hot>> remember this timer we were looking pretty good and then we had that enormous acceleration after the july 4th holiday, july, august, september was terrible in that part of the country, and we have to assume that mother nature is telling us that that same thing is going to happen again. so i'm really holding my breath. >> doctor hotez is not a politician. just because he's an expert doesn't mean he's infallible but he doesn't have a dog in the fight from a political standpoint. that is his best assessment. here is florida governor ron desantis laughing at him. here's where florida cases are now, this is what the graph looks like. look at that spike at the end. so thank you, governor desantis for telling people to get vaccinated. but we really could've use this much sooner, i'm glad you're doing it, let's keep it up. maybe instead of selling t-shirts, we could talk about how the vaccine has saved peoples lives. this is not about people with a certain political persuasion gett

peter hotez.e now seeing top health officials chargted for releasing information connected to vaccines? >> yeah, craig, this is a trend that started last year. so at the end of last year the associated press and kaiser health reported waves of defections and resignations because health officials have been under enormous pressures by politicized governors and governments in order to fix health information and ignore public health recommendations. what is really concerning now is it moved into the vaccine space. so people advocating for vaccines are being told they can't, and that this is part of the reason we had this often decline, awful rate of vaccination among young people where 20% of the adolescence are vaccinated. we're going to see waives of people becoming infected and it's all preventable. >> doctor, of the 25 million children hold enough to get the vaccine, roughly a third of them have gotten the shot and here we are, five, six weeks away from schools reopening and what are the risks for

peter hotez with the vaccine for development. cases aren't just jumping up with adults, with kids, too, how bad is it? >> reporter: the numbers are concerning and shifting quickly here, compared to last week, this week north carolina saw a 32% increase in cases in children under the age of 14, to the point where now that age group makes up 15% of cases statewide. here in durham county, those under the age of 17 makeup a third of cases. those numbers come at a precarious time for schools as they're making back to school plans. in durham they have kids in the classrooms, welcomed back year-round students monday. just yesterday, the governor made an announcement with guidance to school saying those in elementary school and middle school should be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status. for high school students, should remove masks if they've been vaccinated. stephanie, durham public schools has taken it a step further, going to require masks for all schools, elementary, middle, high school. i spoke to the school dis

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peter hotez. you heard tom's report, rising numbers? japan, but still comparative low, but pair that with a low vaccination rate and this delta variant. does this move make sense to you? >> it makes no sense to have the olympics right now, for a number of reasons. first of all, the percentage in japan that's been vaccinated is extremely low, 15% fully vaccinated, far less than half the rate of the united states. for instance, the delta variant is ascending, so places the japanese people at risk. remember, as good a job as we've done in the united states and parts of canada and western europe and the nordic countries, that's about it. we have athletes coming in from all over the world. so this is going to create this crucible of covid-19. i don't see how this goes well it would have been better to canceled, or at least -- the problem is japan needed help. the world did not offer the help. if the world wanted olympics, all hands on deck, they would have ensured that -- nobody really kay to the aid of japan. that's part of the problem. >>

peter hotez, the codirector from the center of vaccine development at the texas children's hospital,the author "preventing the next pandemic, vaccine diplomacy in the time of anti-science." as a pediatrician who works in vaccine development, the state's vaccine doctor fired for she says just doing her job. and now other state officials saying, you know, don't start preplanning for flu inoculations in schools like we normally do, the hpv vaccine, don't do anything about that. >> yeah, basically what they're trying to do is shutdown the whole tennessee vaccination program. and it's a disaster for the families of tennessee especially now for covid-19. anderson, right now tennessee ranks near the bottom in terms of vaccinating adolescents 12 to 17-year-olds 20% as opposed to up to close to 70% in some of the north eastern states. now what we've got and now because of the shutdown and outreach, what that means is that 20% number is going to more or less stall. it's not going to go up appreciably as delta accelerates and it's already in missouri and arkansas. it's now marching into tenness

peter hotez from texas children's hospital and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at bayloru make of all this talk about a booster shot? is it too soon, or should the u.s. be more aggressive here? >> i think it's a complicated picture, but it goes something like this, jeff. we will likely at some point need a third immunization of the vaccination, a third mrna vaccine, yet another boost. that may be it for a while. the reason is because as good a job as we're doing overall in the u.s., we've done a terrible job in africa and latin america and southeast asia and given new variants an opportunity to arise and emerge. so by giving that third immunization we'll have higher levels of virus neutralizing antibody. i've been saying for all of 2021 so far we'll likely need a third immunization i would imagine next year. that's point one. the confusion, i think, is the press release from pfizer that says we need that third immunization because of the delta variant. that's not necessarily so. it looks like the two immunizations for most people are quite rbust against the variant. over

peter hotez professor at baylor college of medicine. r at the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development. he is somebody who studied coronaviruses in the past and their vaccines. peter, good to see you again. please tell me how concerned we shall be with respect to vaccinated people, fully vaccinated, two shots, getting covid in a serious way and being hospitalized and possibly dying. >> well, the good news is it's a rare event. remember that if you look at the number of individuals who are dyeing from covid in 2021, 99.something% -- 99.5% have not been vaccinated. overwhelmingly you're at risk for serious illness or dying if not vaccinated. there are exceptions. remember, ali, these vaccines are not 100%. in the 90% range, not perfect. there are some hospitalizations and even a few deaths in vaccinated individuals. a number of them are on immunosuppressive therapies for solid organ transplantation. and bone marrow. there are a significant number of americans immunocompromised. 5% maybe. they may benefit from a third immuni

peter hotez. steve, nevada has the highest covid rate in the country and among the lowest for vaccinations. as i am talking through this, i am thinking back to the connor magregor fight. what is going on with americans, vaccines are available. >> reporter: you see health officials are begging people to get vaccinated. it pushed every metric from positivity rate to case count to hospitalizations which are at levels we have not seen since mid february. the most mind numbing thing is that they say it doesn't have to be this way. they looked at the metrics. they've seen that 95% of the current people in the hospital for covid in the past few weeks have been there unvaccinated. we have seen the vaccination rate in far lower than it should be, 43%. far worse in communities like las vegas, communities that surround the strip, often with hospitality workers working on the strip. there we found a community over the weekend 25% vaccinated. another one 30% vaccinated, where they were holding a vaccination dr

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peter hotez. he has been involved in vaccine development plus he is the author of "preventing the next pandemic." let's be clear about pfizer and what they actually said. from what i understand, this information that was leaked from israel was that people who had been vaccinated, i believe the report was in january and february were starting to have lower efficacy in some cases against the delta variant, i think in the 64% range. according to pfizer -- didn't the head of pfizer, a long time ago say that ultimately, people would probably need to get another shot six to ten months after their final shot? >> yeah. anderson, let me break it down like this. maybe it will clarify things. i've been saying most of this year that eventually, we will likely need a third immunization of the pfizer and the moderna vaccine. a booster. the reason for that is it will really jack up virus neutralizing antibodies, provide more robust resilience against the variants to come. as good a job as we are doing in the u.s

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peter hotez will join me. c co-director at texas children's hospital. let me begin with you. a lot of reaction to your warnings about the virus. you know, you said delta is a beast, that it is not last year's virus. why? what are you seeing? >> it's different for a couple different reasons and i think the biggest thing that we're trying to get across to the people in louisiana is we took a lot of preconceived notions from last year. my neighbor was 40 and did okay when he got the virus last year so i'll be fine because i look and feel like him, right? that's not the same thing because this year's virus is not last year's virus. it attacking our 40-year-olds. it's attacking our parents and young grandparents and kids. so understanding how different this is and that we can't take our experience from last year and apply it to today and assume we'll be okay is the biggest fight right now. >> so several questions ochoen t -- on that front and you mentioned age, right? it seems to be striking younger people, as well. more effectively than the original covid. we have, of ybviously,

peter hotez from texas children's hospital and the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. yesterday the conversation was this is like a common cold. be careful. wash your hands. keep your distance. you probably are going to infect one or two people. this is a new world, especially when you talk about the exponential growth of cases if one person is infected on arch eight or nine people. >> yeah. that's right. and the initial numbers we saw, we knew that this was going to be twice as transmisable as the original lineage. now we're getting higher numbers. we're not quite measles territory yet, but it's really, really infectious and contagious. and that's why this thing spread like wildfire across the indian subcontinent and the same in the uk and why it's going to happen in the southern united states and the mountain states where so few people are vaccinated. especially young people are vaccinated. the other piece to this that we're hearing and this is not as firm as the -- how transmisable it is, is whether it's producing more severe illness as we

peter hotez. dr. hotez, look, this is incredible.and says we want to get approval for a third booster because we're seeing waning immunity and the cdc, dr. fauci, they say nope, nope, nope, go ahead with things as they are. so pfizer comes in to bereave them so they can talk about it and share the data and come out of this meeting and the headline from the biden administration is nothing has changed. what is going on here? >> we can unpack it in three different ways briefly. first of all, we've been talking all year about the likelihood we will need a third immunization, which will help to dramatically elevate virus neutralizing antibodies even more, provide better tnt cell help and cellar immunity and we need to do that because we've done as good of a job in the u.s. we're doing a terrible job in africa that is largely unvaccinated, latin america and southeast asia so the variants as they come into the u.s. will be important to do that third immunization down the line. that's point one. point two is as important as that is, it's not

peter hotez said would happen. >> remember at this time last year we were looking pretty good and then we had that enormous acceleration after the july 4th holiday, july, august. september was terrible in this part of the country, and we have to assume that mother nature is telling us that the same thing is going to happen again. i'm holding my breath over the south as to what happens this summer. >> he's not a politician. just because he's an expert, doesn't mean he's infallible, but he doesn't have a dog in the fight from a political standpoint. that's his best assessment. here's florida governor ron desantis on fox news with laura ingraham laughing at him. here's where florida cases are now. this is what the graph looks like. look at that spike at the end. so thank you, governor desantis, for telling people to get vaccinated. but we really could have used this sooner. i'm glad you're doing it. maybe instead of selling t-shirts and cozies, we can talk about how the vaccine has saved people's lives. this is not about people with a certain political persuasion getting the virus or dyin

peter hotez. let me start with you tonight.this information and study about johnson & johnson. johnson & johnson had a silence, right, which was a little troubling because there was so i lens and they didn't come out with the data saying their vaccine was extremely effective so raised questions. there have been obviously unrelated concerns that people had about very rare reports of blood clots with johnson & johnson. what does this mean right now? if you have the j&j vaccine, what do you do? >> well, right now i wouldn't do anything differently because it's still a small study, first of all and erin, it not truly an efficacy study done among populations to determine true levels of efficacy. this is a test tube study done at nyu where they looked at the virus neutralizing antibodies against the delta variant and against from individuals who have a big drop in neutralizing antibodies against the delta variant. again, there could still be good levels of protective immunity but concerning the levels of virus neutralizing antibody d

peter hotez is with us from texas. president biden said several times, quote, we're following the science. but the cdc has yet to divulge the studies it's looking at, the data it has to explain and justify its most recent masking guidance. should they? >> yeah, they should, and it is very confusing. i mean, i understand it, but i have an m.d. and a ph.d. and having thinking about coronavirus vaccines for more than a decade. and it goes like this. we know that these vaccines, even against the delta variant still protect against serious illness and symptomatic illness. they're holding up really well. the issue is there's preliminary data, and it's only preliminary, it hasn't been published. it comes out in various preprint forms that the amount of virus in breakthrough cases in those rare breakthrough cases is quite high, so people are still shedding a lot of virus if they get delta and they're vaccinated as opposed to previously with the earlier lineages, it was stopping both symptomatic serious illness and asymptomatic

peter hotez, codirector for the center for vaccine development at texas children's hospital.will weigh in on the risk to young children who are unable to get vaccinated as the delta variant spreads as well as the growing problems states like missouri and tennessee are facing. >>> the most iconic site in paris is once again open to tourists. the eiffel tower has reopened after an eight-month shutdown due to covid. this was the longest the tower was closed since world war ii. masks are still required for visitors older than 11. visitors must show a french government health pass. >>> just one weeks before the games begin, the first person has tested positive for covid-19 at the tokyo olympic village. that person, one of 44 affiliated with this year's games to have tested positive since july, but the first at the olympic village. the identity and nationally have not been revealed. but the tokyo 2020ceo said saturday that the person came from overseas. more than 11,000 athletes and 79,000 journalists, officials and staff are slated to attend the games. >>> coming up, reaction to e

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peter hotez was on with ali velshi this morning and here's what he said. >> you need to be vaccinated not going into the hospital, but also we need to reduce community transmission and that only happens when everybody gets vaccinated. this is the problem that we're seeing in missouri and arkansas and now it's heading into louisiana and mississippi and florida, is that you have that one-two punch of low vaccination rates and high levels of delta. so this thing is going to get a lot of people sick. what we've got in the young adults especially in the southern states under 40% in many cases among the adolescent under 20%, so we're going to see a lot of sick young people go into the hospital. >> reporter: so what is still unresolved, is the booster shot. pfizer says they're developing one right now and they will be seeking authorization for it, but the cdc and the fda still saying it's a little too fast. they're happy to approve a booster if science shows it's needed. >> a little more time has to pass before we figure that out. thank you. >>> the very close family member that could be the

peter hotez, dean of school of tropical medicine at baylor. with younger, unvaccinated patients, are we at risk of hospitals overwhelmed or challenged in areas with low vaccination rates? >> that's absolutely right, garrett, this is what we're going to see, a surge across the south as many of us predicted. places with a one-two punch, high levels of delta variant and low vaccination rate, and as you report, the character of the epidemic and surge in the south will look somewhat different. won't have as many older individuals, many of them are vaccinated, but the defiance around vaccination is occurring among young people, parents of adolescents. so this is what we're going to see. even though the death rate may not be as high, we'll see a lot of devastating illness, icus are filling up across the south. it is heartbreaking because none of the hospitalizations have to happen. almost all of these hospitalizations are preventable. >> let's talk about the study suggesting johnson & johnson vaccine may not be as effective against the delta variant.

peter hotez, and i wanted to ask you, shannon about infrastructure, because the president addressed it in the remarks of after weeks of intense negotiations, and appears a bipartisan infrastructure deal, and so bring us up to speed. >> yeah, i mean, apparently, he is getting the same information that we are getting that there does seem to be a deal that the democrats have agreed to the latest proposal from the republicans, and the latest caveat, geoff, that there are a number of times that we have heard of the deal that is close or days away, and we will see if indeed this is the deal that we have been waiting for, and could provide a big boost to the president to try to get a little wind in the sails to get the message beyond this latest development of the masks which have become a visible sign of the president's setback against this pandemic. >> and rehema, heading to you over there in ridgewood, new jersey, and great to have you with us, and what are you hearing from the folks about the revised guidance that fully vaccinated people should wear masks again indoors where people have h

start with peter hotez. listen, it might be -- there's no kind way to say it, there is a political divide in this country that's now -- one side of this being isolated by a deadly virus and with numbers that we've seen, 80% of people still not changing their mind of the vaccine, you know, your research on how to stop a pandemic or how to stop the next one, i wonder what it would take at this point to try and turn this around. >> yeah, mika, you're exactly right. it's no coincidence where this epidemic is raging right now, it's first and foremost raging in the south. if you look at the states with the lowest vaccination rates those are the states that have an enormous amount of covid. you mentioned florida but louisiana is on fire, alabama is on fire, missouri, arkansas and these are all conservative strong holds. it's not fun for people like myself to talk about republicans, democrats, conservatives and liberals, but that is the reality. this is months and months of anti-science, anti-vaccine aggression comi