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

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

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

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

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

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

>> 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 clear. 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. >> y

why vaccination is the production capacity there to produce these new vaccines? so that's a complicated question, but that a really, really critical what is complicated, because if we think about a vaccine in widespread use influenza vaccine made by maybe 2 dozen companies around the world in a typical year for a you know, for the typical flu season. we make 402500 1000000 doses where we've already dispensed over 2000000000 doses of cobit 900 vaccines. it gives you an impression of the scale. and now we're asking these companies, the companies that have developed vaccines, the manufacturer, not 400000000, not 2000000000, but 16000000000 doses actually now if you add on that, you may need boosters and there may be buried vaccines coming. we're talking on a scale that we've never manufactured vaccines before, and it's not dangerous. it's just, it's something that has to be done. and so, as with any manufacturing process, you have to go from initial low rate manufacturing to much higher rate of manufacturing. and sometimes you have to stop production in order to re

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

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

if you are unvaccinated, please get vaccinated now. the vaccines work. it is safe. it is free.t 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 adminis

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

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

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

is now a new divide emerging even between those who had vaccines, golden, the vaccinated in the vaccinated lights 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 north looking out 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 who are waiting for the vaccine recipes being held under lock and key by 5 m a dan, a 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 a much more substantial thing we hit, we have to find them. well, that's 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 abou

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

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

and more universities and employers have started to impose vaccine mandates. >> vaccines are how we endhe pandemic, how we protect our communities, and how we retire our masks for good. >> reporter: but for now, masking is back, not everywhere, but increasingly recommended, even required. across the south, school starts in a couple of weeks, and when it does, atlanta's system will require students and teachers to wear masks. john? >> dickerson: mark strassmann, thank you. the world health organization is warning that countries are in the globe of covidf infections and deaths. this comes as demonstrators in france, ialy, and australia took to the streets this weekend, protesting against vaccination passes and new lockdown measures. elizabeth palmer has the latest from london. >> reporter: good morning. the idea of vaccination passports is gaining traction in europe. six countries now have some version of them, and france has the strictest rules. there, it will be necessary to even enter many public places. and that kicked off violent demonstrations in paris. riot police tousled with prot

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

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,

the vaccines are highly effective. we have enough vaccine for everyone to get vaccinated. and thanks to the american rescue plan and the hard work of the american people, we've administered over 325 million vaccination 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've said from the beginning that we will be guided by the science, so here's what the science tells us. on tuesday the center for disease control and prevention, the cdc, announced its new mask recommendation in parts of the country where covid cases are substantially higher where people didn't get vaccinated. which they define as 50 new cases for every 100,000 people in a week. the cdc recommends you wear a mask when you're in public and indoors like work or in a grocery store. that's true for both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. why? because 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

vaccinated. as we have talked about this delta variant is extremely dangerous. it is significantly more contagious, more transmissible than the previous forms of the virus. and there is evidence that it can lead to quicker onset of disease and more severe disease. i think that the prospects for the fall could be very challenging. however, if we are able to continue to ramp up our vaccination program, that's the most important way to protect people in the fall. >> another unsettling piece of news came from the c.d.c. director who thought the virus would only be a few mutations away from the variant that could potentially escape vaccines. how does that inform your thinking going ahead and how should it inform messaging to people who are still hesitant? rachel: whenever the virus has significant immunity spread in transmission, there are lots of cases, then you can see the development, the variant that has to do with how the virus develops. so the way to actually decrease the amount of variants that

vaccine and prevent this, would you have taken the vaccine?nope. >> so you would have gone through this? >> i would have gone through this, yes, sir. don't shove it down my throat. that's what's local, state, federal administration is trying to do is shove it down your throat. >> what are they shoving, the science? >> no. they're shoving the fact that that's their agenda. their agenda is to get you vaccinated. >> we also heard from my colleague elle reeve who interviewed a woman who said that her daughter had been sick from covid, her young daughter, and continues to be sick. right? it sounds like her daughter has some long haul symptoms and yet she, the women will not get vaccinated. beyond doctors encouraging people to get vaccinated, sit time to require vaccines in business settings and other settings? >> well, one thing i think it's really important is to not paint all of the people who have been -- who have not gotten vaccinated with the same brush. there are a lot of different factors here. you know, here in new jersey we have a very hig

pun vaccinated. >> yes. i think most of our bay area counties have been following recommendations. if we're providing accurate information in a timely way and we're saying this is going to be a recommendation for a time limited time, maybe two or four weeks when the variant is increasing, i think if we're transparent in what we're thinking and not overly mandating something, i think we have earned the trust in our community. con trap costa county is averaging 93 cases per day. are you comparable in terms of the numbers? >> not quite as high but close. around june 15th we were seeing two to three cases a day. now it's 20, 30, up to 60 cases a day. this is concerning. there are so many people vaccinated and despite the high vaccination rates, so many people, predominantly those unvaccinated are getting infected. so two to three up to 60 per day is concerning to us. this is why we're providing the information. there's been a lot lot lot lot wearing masks indoors. that's a good idea to do. so let's do this toget

i'm very concerned about the lagging vaccinations and the rates of vaccination in younger americans. according to the cdc, just half of americans between the ages of 18 and 39 have received one or more doses of the vaccine, compared to more than 85 percent of americans age 65 and older. ms. bush, i really admire that you have been so outspoken on this issue. what message do you have for young americans who have yet to get vaccinated. >> thank you very much, a representative. i think it's very important for us to acknowledge the fact and how we feel about them. we have seen that cases are dropping, and the rates of vaccination -- remain unchanged since january of this year. and we know that more and more young people have contracted covid and we know that it is not , just adults. covid-19 is among the top ten pediatric killers currently. so this does matter for all of us if this does matter for young people. and i understand that there is an air of invincibility at times, especially because if -- in the initial stages of the outbreak of the pandemic we thought that this is something t

but there's also the question of the russian vaccines and chinese vaccines, right? they are not on the list. what does that mean for the world? and the idea of getting the world back to where it was before cove. it does this mean the idea of travel bubbles? the idea of travel corridors, trade, car doors are going to be here for the foreseeable future. this is not something that's going to end anytime soon with, with vaccines getting out. i think there's 2 things. i mean, i would distinguish between whether or more than one chinese vaccine and then the, the russian one. the chinese vaccine signed it back. and saw the form have both been approved by the w h o for use now on the rushing vaccine as i understand it has no. so if we're looking to the world health organization and the stringent assessment of the vaccine, then that should be the bottom line. that's the bottom line for car. it maybe should be that way, max, but that wasn't enough for coffee. she was at the w h o 's approve that, and yet you hasn't. so it seems like what happens in reality from, from what the

we will have hundred 60 million fully vaccinated -- 160 million fully vaccinated americans. we see why it matters. covid-19 cases and deaths are down 90% since january. millions of fully vaccinated americans are getting back to their lives as they did before. businesses are reopening and hiring and rehiring. projected economic growth is the highest it has been in four decades. the bottom line is, the virus is on the run and america is coming back. we are coming back together. this is one of the greatest achievements in american history and you, the american people, made it happen. our fight against this virus is not over. right now, as i speak to you, millions of americans are still on vaccinated and unprotected. because of that, their communities are at risk, their friends are at risk, the people they care about are at risk. this is a bigger concern because of the delta variate. in today's dutch variant. in today's breathing -- delta variant. in today's re-think, we will discuss how the delta man -- area is as for nearly half the cases in the country. because of reconsidera

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

we need all americans who can get the vaccine to get the vaccine. if you won't do it for yourself, do it for your friends, your families, your neighbors and your local community. do it for your grandchildren so they can go back to school. do it for your grandparents so they can finally go out and eat. not only is the delta variant a concern, but we need to look around the corner to the next mutation of the disease. so i would like to know if we're performing enough sequencing to be able to quickly detect the presence of variants and are we tracking the right metrics to understand the shift and drift of the virus so that we can see in realtime what new variants may mean for our response. last week, one vaccine company announced it was ready to file for fda emergency use for a booster shot. do we need booster shots. when do we need them. what does this mean for widely available vaccine. he started offering booster shots last week. i'm worried that american leadership is no longer what it once was, when it comes to public health. and other countries ar

so get vaccinated. if you aren't, you're not nearly as smart as i said you were. >> reporter: the president also saying in a statement, "we are not going back to last year." more vaccinations and mask wearing in the areas most impacted by the delta variant will enable us to avoid the kind of lockdowns, shutdowns, school closures and disruptions faced in 2020. unlike 2020, we have both the scientific knowledge and the tools to prevent the spread of this disease. we are not going back to that. today's new mask guidance coming as parents across the country are protesting mask mandates in schools. >> i cannot stand to see her masked and she doesn't want to be masked. >> reporter: seven states have banned mask mandates in schools, including arizona, where students are already back in school, masks optional. and with the delta surge, a warning from the former head of the cdc dr. tom frieden that covid cases could soar. >> we're hea it's likely, if our trajectory is similar to that in the united kingdom, they

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

get vaccinated now. i think this is one of the reasons that vaccination rates in the united states are rising. i think people are starting to get it. you don't screw around with this virus. this variant can kill you. if you're not vaccinated, it's not too late. you can do it tomorrow. >> and i think province, a lot of people coming from all over the country in a closely confined, very small place. there you go. that can happen anywhere. and when you have a lot of people in constricted areas that aren't outside. thank you, doctor. i appreciate it. we have more on our breaking news. >>> will this be a wake-up call for the unvaccinated? and what about the rest of us? (sound of people returning to the workplace) (sound of a busy office) (phones ringing, people talking, meeting) the company we've trusted to keep us working remotely, is the same company we'll trust to bring us back together. safely. securely. and responsibly. so now, between all apart and all together, there's a bridge. cisco. the bridge to po

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are you vaccinated yourself?yes chris, i was vaccinated back in january and i also volunteered at city run vaccination center. >> would our the -- in your membership of nurses in new york, do you have a sense of what the numbers are in terms of vaccination of the folks in your membership? >> well i would say among our members, we are at least over 70% right now. >> we now my understanding is there's talk about a vaccine mandate in new york and your union is opposed to it, which i found so much surprising although i can kind of understand the logic of. it explained to me your opposition to a vaccine requirement. >> thanks a lot chris, and thanks for having me on. our opposition to a mandate is really that in the face of employers fighting us on having proper infection control, fighting compensation claims of health care workers, fighting -- we don't think it's appropriate for them to be mandating vaccination until they meet our demands and do the things we've been asking them to do. really since before covid hit t

first vaccine, 327 days. that'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 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 hit all kinds of problems. the biggest problem we hit was as the outbreak occurred in india, which is the largest 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

population is fully vaccinated. 30 states have yet to vaccinate even half their residents. alabama and mississippi are the lowest of the low. they haven't even cracked 35% fully vaccinated. when cnn's gary tuchman asked people in alabama why they're not getting the shot, this is the kind of response he found. >> i just don't think that i need it so i'm not going to get it. >> reporter: you know though that almost everyone now who is dying or being hospitalized is somebody who hasn't been vaccinated. the people who have been vaccinated, almost all of them are not going to the hospital and not dying. does that concern you? >> not really. i'm a healthy person. i don't have any underlying health conditions so i'm not really concerned about it. >> according to data from johns hopkins, every state in the nation reported more new cases in the weekending friday than they did the week before. but the u.s. isn't alone in losing ground against the delta variant. today in paris anger and frustration as tens of thousands of people protested mandatory vaccinations for some and a nationwi