every american, again, who wants to get vaccinated can now get vaccinated. scientists have made it clear that we don't need to achieve 100% vaccination for effective herd immunity. so, let's give folks who are hesitant the reassurance that they're not going to be forced by the federal government to do something against their will. it's ultimately every american's decision. but we want it to be an informed decision. first, the vaccine works. pfizer and moderna's phase three clinical studies found their two-dose regiment were 94% and 95% effective respectively at blocking the vaccine and one shot johnson & johnson was in their studies meant all three extremely effective in preventing people from getting severely sick with covid. even if someone gets sick with the vaccine, the severeness of the illness are dramatically are reduced. and declining 77% among older adults as we saw the highest covid deaths were from seniors from nursing homes especially, and the most vulnerability -- vulnerable populations, diabetes, hypertension. while some breakthrough infections

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>> 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 clea 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. >> you

you have to be able to reach the vaccine and get vaccinated. there are four areas that we look at in this equity conversation. the first is making sure that you have time to going get vaccinated. that is where the paid time off piece is so important. just by eliminating that financial pressure because he went to get vaccinated, we create that dynamic, or people are always going to say i will do what i can to navigate the pandemic. and want to put my family in dire straits financially. transportation. the president always talks about the 90% of americans have a vaccine within five miles. you can't get there if you don't have a ride. having transportation, companies have stepped up and made that possible. uber and lyft offering free rides. public transportation being offered. that is an equity conversation. so, then from a child care perspective, it is the same conversation -- am i going to take on the additional cost of getting care? if i can take another kid to get vaccinated, -- [indiscernible] i applaud them for the huge amount of work they h

if you are unvaccinated, please get vaccinated now. the vaccines work. it is safe. it is free. it is readily available. it has never been more important. as we manage this virus, our whole of government effort continues to work to get more people vaccinated, address areas where we have seen outbreaks among the unvaccinated, and prepare for every scenario. first and foremost, we continue to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of new people each day , meeting unvaccinated americans where they are, answering their questions, helping them make up their mind, and making it even easier and more convenient to get a shot as soon as they are ready to do so. we are doing this by trusting and empowering messengers -- trusted messengers to have those conversations we know work. whether it is vaccinated people and communities across the country talking directly to their neighbors, sharing their own vaccination journey and answering questions, or it is olivia roderigo using her voice and platform to spread the word. we are working with doctors, pharmacists, employers, educators, and school admin

you will need proof of vaccination. won't need to bring a recent negative test, but you will need that, again, in order to come back into the u.s. >> hawaii. do visitors from the mainland still need do take a test or show vaccination group? >> the good news is that if you have been vaccinated, that requirement is gone by the wayside. it was a requirement for a while until they got there vaccination rate high enough to where they were able to strip out many of those restrictions, so travel to hawaii really started to kind of normalize and get back to having far fewer sort of, you know, bureaucratic papers and tests that you had to do before travel. now, it's a lot easier to go visit the islands, which is good news for bargain hunters, considering we seen deals as low as 198 bucks round trip just in the past week. >> this is what is interesting though, scott. even if you get cheap flights, like you cited to hawaii, what about the hotels? i have a friend who's going in the fall to hawaii who said the flight was no problem,

trump vaccine. trump vaccine. trump vaccine. great. great. even trump is coming closer to pushing the truth the way he does lies about the election. listen. >> how about the vaccine? i came up with the vaccine. i recommend you take it but i also believe in your freedoms a hundred percent. >> now, this is the part i don't get. okay? i still don't understand why he doesn't push this vaccine like everything except what i keep being offered up an answer which i don't want to accept just to see him as a human being which is there is nothing in it for him. it doesn't help him for america to do great and get away from the vaccine right now. if it were his watch it would be one thing but he blew that. i have a hard time accepting that. i don't want to. i don't want to think that way about people. but this freedom thing. where is the freedom issue? don't force me to take it, man. who is forcing you? there's talk about they're going to force. private companies can do what they want want. they say no shirt no shoes. the vaccine falls into it. you don't

on vaccinated, consider vaccination today., available, it's easy and works in its never been more important. >> thank you and it's great to be with all of you again today. we are all seen the numbers, it's troubling. it's another reminder we are not out of the woods yet but it's important to not lose sight of how far we've come. cases are down dramatically from january peak averaging 200,000 plus cases a day. click on more than 151 million people fully vaccinated which is a high end of degree of production against production. there still choosing to get vaccinated and that's all we need. time and time again during this past year, faxing safe lives. 99.5% of covid-19 deaths 97% of hospitalizations are among the on vaccinated and why really every death from covered preventable tragedy, i'd like to share a few updates how wee continue tope support people making their decisions about the vaccine. first, we are ramping up our work with communities about this summer we seen people in every community steppingp up to get their loved o

the vaccines are highly effective. we have enough vaccine for everybody to get vaccinated. and thanks to the american rescue plan, and the hard work of the american people, we have administered over 325 million vaccinations doses in the past six months. we have the tools to prevent this new wave of covid from shutting down our businesses, our schools, our society as we saw happen last year. i have said since the beginning that we will be guided by the science. so here's what the science tells us. on tuesday the centers for disease control and prevention and the cdc announced its new masked recommendation and parts of the country were covid cases are substantially higher or people did not get vaccinated. which they defined as 50 new cases for every 100,000 people in a week. the cdc recommends you wear a mask when you are in public and indoors like work or in a grocery store. that is true for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. why? even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from covid-19 you could have the delta variant in your system. and sprea

vaccinations each day. now, if you look at the numbers, that's more than one in three over, 36% over last week's pace. but we have to do much better because we were behind, all right? here is the tale of the tape. a third, one in three, of those of us who are eligible are not vaccinated. and now, what too many of them see as this perverse flex of freedom, they are affected the freedom of the majority who protected themselves and their loved ones. now, all must mask up again because delta can spread by the vaccinated as well. and for those who are saying, no mask for me, no vaccine, you better get ready to hear that "no" answer as well. at school and at many of the places we work and play. there is going to be a consequence for irrational resistance. disney is now among the companies requiring vaccinations for all its employees. walmart's corporate employees in america as well. these are two of the nation's largest employers. disney is also requiring staff and all guests to wear masks regardless of vax statu

and healthcare workers to get vaccinated. we will talk about the ethics behind these new vaccine mandates. as more people are going out to restaurants, have customers forgotten how to be human? we will talk to a local restaurant owner who says it has been a rough ride >>> a lot of covid news with vaccinations stalled and cases on the rise, there are new developments that are significant, including the announcement by fisa and moderna that they are expanding studies of children under 12. joining us to talk all things vaccine and covid-related, we have dr. michael wasserman. ai committee for the california association of long-term-care of medicine. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. this is such an important topic. >> nationwide, we look at the number of new cases going up. it was up 170 percent in the last two weeks here inred we started with a smaller number so the percentage increase would be huge. the governor warned us today in making the announcement that he says that we would see a significant rise

if a person who is not vaccinated -- should a person who is not vaccinated get the vaccine? we have not been able to get a direct answer from anyone. just give us literature to read. host: glad you asked the question. go ahead. dr. schaffner: it's an interesting question. let me tell you that there are two kinds of vaccines out there. there is the pfizer and the moderna vaccine. they are made in a similar way and then there is the johnson & johnson jansen vaccine, that is the one and done vaccine that is so attractive. that vaccine has been associated with the johnson & johnson vaccine with a very low risk of following guillain-barre syndrome. the risk is about eight cases for every million doses of the vaccine that are used, so there is an increased risk of guyon barre syndrome. if that concerns you please get them a dharna the pfizer vaccine. but you should be vaccinated. host: to jonathan in texas. good morning. caller: yes. right now if i wanted to go to canada on a vacation they wouldn't let me in because of the covid restrictions and everything. i am only a 1 hour driv

effective vaccine. there is no reason to believe right now that people who have taken the j&j vaccine are in need of a booster dose of any sort. there are no data to indicate that that is the case. back to you, jeff. jeff: on the global front, as you know, the president has committed to sharing 580 million doses of vaccine to the world. half a billion doses of pfizer being donated to the 100 or so countries most in need. this is by far the largest ever donation of covid-19 vaccines by a single country. we shared the 80 million by the end of june and they have now shipped so they have -- they're in the air or they've arrived in the recipient country. and will continue to share tens of millions of doses across the summer months, beyond the 80 million. thank you for joining and we look forward to seeing everybody at the next briefing. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright nation

the vaccine? i got over covid i had a heart attack. >> so why would you not get the vaccine? >> i might have a bad reaction to it. >> i see. >> i believe that it's a freedom issue. and i've worn a mask probably a maximum of one hour in the entire whole since the covid came out. if it's so communicable, why am i still standing? >> we had people accuse us of giving their loved ones something else so that they would die and we could report it as covid. we heard it more than once that we were just fudging the numbers and we were killing people on purpose to make covid look like it was worse than it was or to make it look real when it wasn't. >> for the first majority of the pandemic we wore the same n95 for like one to two weeks at a time. >> tell >> i think it suck. >> why? >> so, they dubbed us healthcare heroes. it just -- it gave the public this really wrong impression that we were sacrificial lambs, and -- and willing to die for them. we want to help people. you know, i want to save lives. i want

the vaccines. their unprecedented efforts have helped vaccinate 179 million americans in record time but more work is needed to prevent backsliding on this hard fought progress. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the strategies that are effective to overcome vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptick and how we can better inform the american public and encourage those who may be hesitant to feel confident in getting these shots. once again, i thank the members for being here today and i yield to the ranking member for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, appreciate you holding this hearing. thank our witness for coming today. as americans move into the fourth of july weekend, independence day takes on special meaning this year. thanks in large part to the vaccines this is the first holiday weekend where virtually all of america is back open. free. families and friends will celebrate together, grandmothers will visit and hug their grandkids, crowds will gather again f

first vaccine, 327 days.t's amazing the previous record before that was four years i think to keep in mind how fast the science moved, but we normally provide, in terms of vaccines, about 5 million doses a year now what we're talking about is quadrupling that number. the number you mentioned is people but, of course, most o of the vaccines are two doses so we need double the number of vaccines to cover that population this has been an unprecedented, in a sense, drive towards that we've been very proud to see the increased supply of course, we've all kinds of problems. the biggest proble as the outbreak occurred in india, which is the large evident producer of vaccines by volume, it meant they turned national with their programs, and that meant that there were less for the rest of the world of course, at the beginning, had vaccines been shared, we would have been able to get to health care workers and high-risk groups quickly that might have dampened the spread of the infection. we ultimately, of course, need

they got vaccinated.y don't need a mask when the majority of the -- the vast majority of the people got vaccinated. look, i want to talk about what's really hang, what it means, what it doesn't mean, and what we need to do this week and the months ahead. for from the moment i was elected, i said i'd always give to you straight from the shoulder, and we need some straight talk right now because there's a lot of fear and misinformation in the country, and we need to cut through it with facts, with science, with the truth. so what's really happening today? after months and months of cases going down we're seeing a spike in covid cases. they're going up. why? because of this new form, this new variant called the delta variant. this is a much different variant than the one we dealt with previously. it's highly transmissible, and it's causing a new wave of cases in those that are not vaccinated. our experts tell me that cases will go up further before they start to come back down. while cases are on the rise, t

vaccinated. in my home state of south carolina, for example, only 39% of the total population is fully vaccinated. most concerning, we are still losing hundreds of americans to the coronavirus every day. nearly all of the more than 8,500 americans who died from covid-19 last month were unvaccinated. i want to repeat that. nearly all of the more than 8,500 americans who died from covid 19 last month were unvaccinated. if more americans got their shots, we could reduce coronavirus deaths to nearly zero. at this critical juncture, we must not lose sight. work that remains to be fully-- to fully stop the spread of the virus in the united states. we must undertake dedicated efforts to overcome vaccine hesitancy and redouble our outreach and education so that we can find a way to convince those who are reluctant of the importance of getting vaccinated. we must overcome access barriers and address informational needs, particularly in communities of color. so that we can make it easier for everyone to ge

is more proof that vaccines work. in fact unvaccinated individuals account for virtually all of 97 percent second we have fully vaccinated 162 million americans including 82 percent those individuals 65 years and older. as a result changing the course of the pandemic the threat is predominantly only to be unvaccinated. the data is clear they are in low vaccination rates. inas fact with can sister lower vaccination rates florida, texas and missouri have the lowest vaccination rates accounting for 40 percent of all cases nationwide. and for the second week in a row one out of five of all cases occurring in florida alone and they are primarily among unvaccinated people. the third reason and then to see the vaccination rates go up in fact five states with the highest case rates arkansas, florida, louisiana, na , had a higher rateac of people getting nearly vaccinated from the national average it's a wevery positive trend for the second week in a row states with lower vaccination and higher case rates and then to respond w

get them vaccinated, get all the vaccines as well. i'm grateful for the question so lots of things that worry me but also possible opportunities to get teens in and get them vaccinated so they can be safe and families and communities can be safe. >> thank you for the answer, it is terrific. doctor webb, i'm goingng to turn to you next. the white house is prioritizing rapid rollout of covert vaccines is an integral part of biden's pandemic response strategy yet thblessed and half of the total u.s. population is fully vaccinated. as schools prepare to reopen for in person learning, how is the administration working to get more children vaccinated and what can the businesses do to help? >> let me first say thank you y for having me on this afternoon. it's great to chat with you all at any time i get the vaccine, my role for equity to serve vast and equitable ways has been making sure unities have access to these vaccines and access being that primarye focus so before you wonder about people's intentions, make sure the vaccine.ak now vacc

that's the difference the vaccination makes. the vaccine can give you freedom. look. it's not perfect. and in fact, it's becoming increasingly imperfect. how much so? i don't know. and i do not believe the findings of "the washington post," all due respect, until i see the data. i believe the headline or i wouldn't repeat it. i believe the reporting, or i wouldn't share it. but we have to see the data, that supports it. but if it spooked the scientists there, it should get our attention, as well. we have a lot of new information to process. let's bring in a better mind. dr. jerome adams, former-u.s. surgeon general of the united states of america under president trump. good to see you, doc. >> good to see you, chris. >> what do you make of this news? >> well, i think it's important to start off by saying the vaccines work to do the number-one thing that people should care about, and that's keeping them out of the hospital or the morgue. so, vaccines work. and i want to thank you for emphasizing that point. now, you talk about this new information that -- that is in "t

back against vaccination education for all vaccines. so it's grown into this monster of sorts in which you're not just fighting people who are resistant to getting the pfizer, moderna shot, you're trying to convince that vaccinations at large are important. that's a different battle. one last thing, when you talk to people in the biden orbit, including those who work on the covid task force, they tell you more often or not, people are not going to take directives from the government that they're not going to be pushed, they will be prodded into getting the vaccine. they need people like pastors, family members or so on to tell them this is important. this is where the facebook problem comes in, full disclosure, my wife works for facebook, but if you are falling a certain universe of people who are anti-vaccine and that's the universe of information you get repeatedly and you're not getting outside influences, your ecosystem is going to encourage you to not get the vaccine, and it's hard for someone to infiltrate that media ecosystem. th

qualified vaccinators to scale up the vaccination program. and second, there is a low confidence in government and in the vaccine products, and that is hampering the rollout. we've seen a surge of misinformation and rumors online and off-line, and we are observing vaccine hesitancy among health workers but also among presidents and political leaders. and third, with limited supply and his ability in to win the next is coming, many countries have reduced their short-term ambitions for their vaccine programs. charles martha at chad to all talk about their country experiences, but we now see two extremes in our world. some countries have fully used up all of their doses and had to actually stop their vaccination programs due to lack of supply. on the other hand, there are also several countries that signaled that they would not be able to fully utilize their doses before the expiration date. and unicef and partners are working hard to support these countries to quickly export their access vaccine doses to other countries who are in need and can

of vaccines. i really, really hope the committee hears me when i'm saying this. this is something that people on the ground level are continually saying. it took five monthsak to go fro phase 3 trials to eua. it's taken already longer than that to go from eua to full licensure of these vaccines. and the american public wants to know why. and number 10, stop talking about vaccine hesitancy in political terms for goodness sake and find different incredible spokespersons for different groups. i've neverve heard someone say won't get vaccinated because i'm a o republican. i do hear people say i don't trust government, i don't trust the public health system. when we focus on trust, we win people over. vaccine hesitancy did not manifest itself n out of nowher. our country needs to fundamentally change in how it provides expert public health services i and communications because vaccine hesitancy quite frankly isn't the root problem. it's just c the latest symptom. the latestt example of our collectiveve

lower rates of vaccination, we are encouraging people who are not vaccinated yet. and wear a mask until you do. >> is made significant progress. we will continue to put public health when making borders and travel. any decisions about reopening international travel will be guided by our public health and medical experts. i don't have a specific update for you on any reopening plans. we must remain vigilant, particularly given the spread of the delta variant and we will reopen when the health and medical experts believe it is safe to do so. >> thanks for taking my question. one clarification on the delta variant, can you say how accurate you think the 51% estimate is and if it's a possible undercount? could you respond to the missouri governor saying he doesn't want government officials going door to door pushing the vaccine to ensure that that doesn't happen. >> over time number of cases we continue to sequence and then update. 51% is an estimate of about the first 600 sequences. it has some uncertainty around it, but that's our best estimate , generally we think i

vaccine. i don't know genetically if smallpox is related to chickenpox. you know, i know smallpox and cowpox are they're both orthopax viruses, but i don't know if chickenpox fits into that or if it's another species of virus entirely, but i do know that the general premise of how vaccinations work that you infect a healthy patient with a virus that prompts the response from the immune system that then builds up immunity to protect the patient against that virus. i know that that basic concept of vaccination that basic process has also been used in the in the chickenpox vaccine. i just don't know if those two viruses are. genetically or biologically related all right, i think. i think those are all the questions we've gotten. i hope that looking at the history of smallpox. i hope you found some. learn some interesting things not only about the the disease of smallpox and the ways in which it was eradicated, but i hope you also found interesting that many parallels to our current situation of d

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silver lining here, vaccines clearly on the rise, even in some of the least vaccinated states. but vaccine hesitancy still an issue for a lot of people out there. the fda is bringing in extra help to speed up the full approval process of the covid vaccines, hoping it will encourage more people to get the shots. cnn's natasha chen is at a vaccination drive outside atlanta. are you seeing a number of people looking to be vaccinated, and what's bringing them out today and changing their minds? >> reporter: jessica, more than 200 people have come through to get vaccinated at this site in dekalb county, georgia, that's more than county officials expected. that's a good thing. there were people sort of skeptical in line about the vaccine but said it was the money being given out, $50 gift cards that brought them here. america is waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions, president biden says we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta variant continue to rise. >> in all probability, by the way, had a good day yesterday, almost a million people got va

i got the vaccine. i got the vaccine because not only did i want to protect myself but everybody i came in contact with. i wanted to protect the elderly people i came in contact with. i wanted to make sure they were going to be okay because they are the ones likely to die because of this. when i say it's a matter of life or death, this is serious. that's why we're here today. that's why we're in the bay view hunter's community. we understand the importance. we're not using rhetoric. we did our research on this. question asked the questions to our public health experts not only here in san francisco but all over the country because we knew people would be concerned. we knew especially african americans would be concerned and there would be issues around trust because of historical factors. what we're here to talk about is not what this means and how it relates to life and death but the importance of doing the right thing. doing our part whether we're uncomfortable with it or not. protecting our relatives

not completing the series those of partially vaccinated are at risk we recommend they get vaccinated on schedule that if you are beyond that window io want to reiterate there is no bad time to get the second shot. do it for yourself, your family and your community and protect your young children who right now cannot get vaccinated themselves. with that i will turn it over to doctor fauci. >> thank you. i would like to continue along the lines that dr. wolensky had mentioned that now look at it from the global standpoint. clearly the delta variant is dominant in the world.. if you look at this map of the world there are 100 countries that now have the delta variant detected in june of 2020. if you look at the average daily prevalence worldwide and the right-hand part of the slide, you see the extraordinary surgeon the dominance of this variant worldwide w and as was mentioned in several briefings that we have had to see an increase in our own country to the point of now having 50 percent dominance and greater than 70 percent. that is sobering news but look worldwide with hospitalizati

why not just require vaccination? >> we are not mandating vaccines a the white house tonight. there are rigorous testing and screening protocols of those who are vaccinated, do not need to wear masks. those who are not vaccinated do need to wear a mask. we are there to celebrate healthcare workers, these are people who understand the importance of safety and doing the right thing. most of these folks are vaccinated. we enkcourage all americans get vaccinated as soon as possible. >> why not mandate it though? >> we'll make it easy and answer people's questions. it is individual's choice and we hope people make the right choice and get vaccinated as soon as possible. >> jeffery zeints, thank you for joining me. have a great fourth. >> plus, the house select committee on the january 6th attack is taking shape. who needs to testify about what happened that day, house majority whip, jim clyburn is joining me ahead. rna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. your mission: stand up to

vaccinated . as we prepared for our independence day i want to remind those who remain unvaccinated to protect themselves by wearing a mask and avoiding crowds to prevent transmission and illness. if you have symptoms of covid-19 please get tested and of course please get vaccinated in one of the many places near you as soon asyou can . these enjoy a safe family and fun filled holiday weekend area thank you and i will now turn things over to doctor fauci. >> thank you very much doctor wolensky what i'd like to do is to address the issue of the role of the vaccine that we have available to us. and their ability to protect against the delta variance. if icould have the first slide . >> is simplified to think about it in three separate buckets. what is the protection against infection, against symptomatic disease or against hospitalization? we have data for all three. next slide. first in a study published online on june 14 from scotland, it was shown that the mrna vaccine about an 80 percent effecti

to get vaccinated. we're in the midst of a third wave of covid-19. the delta variant is deadly. deadly for those who refuse to be vaccinate d. there are few left who can be persuaded with science and logic. everyone hospitalized across america for covid of-related illnesses has one other thing in common. they are unvaccinated. said differently, virtually no one who has been fully v vaccinated for covid is in the hospital with a covid-related illness. so why are we succumbing to the intransigence of the unwilling and instead seeking to punish the responsible. those who have done their part by getting vaccinated. two more real world examples of the unvaccinated were in the news this week. here in philadelphia the inquirer reports as many as half the players on the phillies remain unvaccinated. meanwhile, eric clapton threatened he might require vaccination. on a social media account he wrote this, i wish to say i will not perform on any stage where there's a discriminate d audiene presence unless there's

if you want to get vaccinated, they can get vaccinated.y doctor has recommended i not get vaccinated, due to the multiple health conditions i have, but i wasn't going to do it anyway because i am concerned with the very serious potential side effects. host: side effects such as what, considering your health? caller: i've heard of blood clots. i'm already taking a blood thinner for that. i've heard about side effects such as spinal cord inflammation. some people's skin starts peeling. it is way more serious side effects than a standard flu vaccine. i wouldn't want to go anywhere near that. host: when you talk about heard you -- when you talk about herd immunity, you have seen the statistics with pockets of certain states with low vaccination rates, but overall you think herd immunity is developing? caller: yes. host: ok. todd in california, giving us -- did you have something else? caller: just saying thank you. host: todd in california. let's go to lori in pennsylvania on the support line. (202)-748-8001 -- caller: good morning. what is no

is there now a new divide emerging even between those who had vaccines and golden vaccinated in the vaccinated light or something like that? it seems, i think there is a low history, sadly in this kind of response of what i think we should call it what it is. it's a structural racism. it's the european know, looking at themselves. and this implicit sense that brown people in the global south are incapable of making vaccines when, in fact, you know, when it hit 60 percent of the world's vaccines are made in india, we have competent way the world class produces in developing countries all over the world. and these are the same, produces, waiting for the vaccine recipe being held under lock and key by 5 m a dan bio intent. so certainly the europeans looking after themselves, once again. so yes, we may have this divide over vaccine passports, but it's, it's much more substantial thing we have, we have been trying symbols that max and jump in and say, well, from the you perspective, i'm sure they would argue this is not about different parts of the world or races, this is simply about science and i

a vaccine doubters family telling people on his behalf to get vaccinated, which is certainly welcome. every voice helps. but, again, this comes after far too many people have died unnecessarily including some in their very last assisted breaths before being put on a ventilator asked for a vaccine. you went to the covid floor of the hospital. what did you see there? >> reporter: anderson, we were at baptist medical center on the covid floor in jacksonville, and i saw doctors and nurses desperately trying to save lives. but they're really up against the numbers. the number of covid patients is increasing. right now they have 349 covid patient. 74 of them are in the icu. 72 of those 74 are on ventilators. they're also turning regular hospital beds now into icu beds because they need them so badly. we were there yesterday, and on that same day they had 60 new covid patients come in. and i'm told that 57 of those 60 were eligible for the vaccine. and anderson, only one of them had actually received it. and that's the problem. 99.6% of the covid patients at that hospital are unvaccinated. s

months after vaccination.re two completely different angles to the vaccine issue with long coded. >> that sounds like a topic for another conversation, i do appreciate your time today, take care. >> like that, thank you. >>> we saw most county will start requiring face coverings inside all county buildings beginning monday, regardless of vaccination status. it is another sign that the delta variant is forcing changes once again to our reopening. joining us to talk about this is the president of board of supervisors, david can about. great to have you. >> thank you so much. >> i would like to ask you for the details of this new order in the places where it applies. >> effective monday on an all county building, whether you are vaccinated or not, we are requiring people who are going to the county centers or facilities, whether that is paying property taxes, whether it's you going for planning. whatever it is, you will have to wear a mask and our employees, on the other side, will have to wear masks as well. so,

not vaccinated. so yes, i think that's very important to notify everyone that please, please, the answer is to get vaccinated. now, one of the things that just has really jumped up is that the study that just came out of ontario, canada, is very important to us, and it shows that those who were now infected are having twice the chance of dying. so this is one of the first times since covid has been with us now, the mutation, and the variant, it is now more lethal, and that is very important now. why? we now know that every little droplet that's coming out has over 1,000 times the amount of virus present which also could be the reason why it is just s infective right now. >> and what do you make of pfizer and the suggestion that boosters are necessary. it shouldn't be any surprises there, should there? >> no. i concur with that, and i think if you look back at my time over the last probably eight months that i've been speaking to you all, i've been saying that i believe that all of the data shows that

in korea, you have to be vaccinated with the vaccine the korean government has approved. they take a sinovac's vaccine as proof? there are a lot of individual issues that keep countries from setting up the kinds of systems that are necessary in order to cross recognize each other's vaccination certificates. if you want to go from the united states to korea, you have to send in your vaccine certificate to a korean consulate. it has to be reviewed and potentially an exemption is granted. this is an individual process. until we can standardize it, it is going to be a difficult to accomplish. rishaad: finally from me -- what is herd immunity exactly? will we ever get there? and is it just another way of saying we are going to live with this? jerome: i think this gets to the point of what does this mean, to live with this. now, if you are vaccinated and come down with covid, you are not hospitalized. do not die. you can go on living your life, because enough people in the community are vaccinated so there is not a risk of a outbreak. that may be getting on with our lives -- be

americans and who was vaccinated? >> never was that implied. remember, we're not even requiring a vaccine or a mask. we're giving guidance. those who wish to explode this into something wildly absurd and ina inaccurate, that's up to them. they're making it tougher to reach americans who, if they had the right information, i think they'll say i think i'll get vaccinated. >> thank you so much. javier besarah joining us live. he did something poignant. 99% of the people dying right now today in america due to coronavirus are people who are unvaccinated. >> thank you very much for that interview. >>> let's go to laila santiago in miami. florida leads the nation in new daily covid cases. the average now is nearly 6500 new cases a day, the highest in the country. what's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: when you look at the average case numbers in florida, it has nearly doubled since last week. it is about quadruple what we saw a month ago. this morning we went by a testing site where we saw a bit of a line outsid