, to store the vaccines, to roll out and communicate on vaccines.ries are doing self-assessment's before rolling out vaccines to remedy the areas which are weakest in terms of vaccine rollout. host: even though the world health organization has been warning that targets to vaccinate the continent would not be reached, would you agree that what you see on the ground confirms it is an uphill struggle going forward? >> it has been an uphill struggle. that is also because of access and because high income countries in the early part of the pandemic purchased many of the vaccines available, making them not available to groups. covax is a global initiative wanting to purchase vaccines for the african region. that has been one of the problems. we are seeing the flow of vaccines in the last quarter of last year and next year is beginning to increase. that is good news. we have seen high income countries offering donations of vaccines, which is great, and to be encouraged. one of the problems has been some of those donations have vaccines with short shelf li

vaccines don't save lives, vaccinations do.to ask you whether we not doing in public health? >> this moment has brought me some level of despair as we think about how well we did in getting these vaccines out approved in safe in an effective manner. not getting the uptake that we would expect or hope for both here in the united states. also globally as well. a lot of that comes from the so-called vaccine hesitancy. i would hope that we would had done better. i would have hoped that we would have started conversations with people a little bit earlier and i would have hoped that we would have been able to communicate the science of these particular vaccines as it was being developed even prior to the pandemic with people a little bit sooner and i would have hoped we would have been able to establish more trust not only with vaccines. more probably the system from which vaccines come which is quite frankly is where a lot of the hesitancy stems or vaccine -- stem so there's some level of conversation to continue to be had and were

so right now we hear their vaccines but who supposed to go for vaccine? you know, before there was they had announced that in priority to groups. oh, be there. and then somehow quietly, thou was rubbish doors sticking out. we're seeing on twitter it. oh, government officials who are not part of this groups, armor and journalist as well. coming out and saying are go vaccinated, but when you see people being allowed to skip the line and then once it collapses, no information that comes out by government to say, all right, now this is what we're doing. shawna wanted to come back to you, even if we had these vaccines brought in today. the question has always been the infrastructure to distribute them. and it's also been the case where, you know, the vaccines are donated to us, but they're so close to expiration. it's almost impossible to get them to the people who need them. talk to me about the situation with the people who you closely working with and the infrastructure that you're dealing with. yeah, i mean, i think that's fundamentally where you're not a

as it has been a vaccinated who are the and vaccinated now are the people who didn't get vaccinated during the initial rounds during the initial push and then children. so in the united states, we're seeing record numbers, numbers of children being hospitalized. we're seeing increasing numbers of children all over the world, getting sick now, you know, they don't get as sick as adults, but it doesn't take much. i mean, we don't have as many pediatric beds in hospitals so that it isn't going to take as much to fill them up. and that would be a horrible thing. looking at the statistics into lustily, totally explain the whole, the france and the u. k. of america, millions of cases a week with us. many countries nafrica, relatively unvaccinated, still recording cases in the law. so since i was shot to the spot to split, that's a great question. and it actually raises the the issue that there are actually 3 gaps. the 1st gap is, you know, been, we've been talking about this for the past year is the supply of vaccine. so high income countries preferentially got vaccine 1st loan can countries got

we know a lot about the pfizer vaccine, more than any of the other vaccines, because the pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine that has a license. and until they get that license, they do not have to produce their data. so the only data we really have is the pfizer data. and by the way, there is a half million pages of granular data with pfizer and the fda have refused to produce, because they say it is too burdensome. these are the data that they reviewed for 108 days, but they say they can't show it to us for 55 years. so they promised, because they were rushing the process, they were going to have complete transparency but what they meant is they are going to have complete transparency in 55 years. but we want it now. so i'm just going to briefly tell you, to review for you the one important thing that you should know from pfizer's own data, which is the section of the submission where they talk about long because mortality. what they say in that data, you can see a really good explanation. but here is what it says, it's very simple. over the six months study, they said it was going to

we don't hold vaccines to that. a lot of the messaging in the first year was around until we have a vaccine. the fact that we have a vaccine now and we have seen a radical transformation to the world as it was before, i think that's tough to grapple with, not just for myself. how do you explain this and think about the safety and effectiveness. host: in terms of the development of a vaccine, they go through the same authorization process. they have to go through trials. they have to be approved for at least emergency use by the fda. guest: absolutely. the one quicker path would be if there was a strain change. this is something that is being worked out in real time between the fda and vaccine developers. what level of relevance does the fda want to see to feel comfortable if you make a tiny tweak to one of these vaccines to tailor it to omicron instead of the original virus. you have to run a massive study with a placebo group. you could look at a correlate of protection as far as different measures where you can ge

i health care professionals to get vaccinated-— vaccinated. i am absolutely delighted — vaccinated.i delighted at the announcement vaccinated. i am absolutely - delighted at the announcement that children will no longer be required to wear masts in schools and it is a welcome and evidence based return to prioritising the issues of our children who have suffered greatly during the pandemic. my right honourable friend knows that i have not always been a supporter of restrictions but does he agree with me that under a labour government, farfrom being the me that under a labour government, far from being the freest country in europe, we would have had a longer, harder lockdown is and school closures, causing immeasurably more harm to the poorest, youngest and most vulnerable in our society? i see the gentleman on the opposite benches shaking his head. he was cruelly exposed last week for the way he called repeatedly for lockdown is, mr speaker, and that is the reality. the reality is that they would have kept us in lockdown in july and they would have kept us in lockdown injuly and thei

even osha in his june ets did not mente vaccines. -- mandate vaccines. they said employers, give us a planned, if there is heightened in particular workplaces than additional measures can be put in place. this is covering economy wide all industries. >> that is one of your main objections, that this is not a work place issue. it is an out of the world issue, is that right? >> that is right mr. chief justice. >> how focused on the workplace does something have to be before you will say osha can regulate it? for example, an assembly line, workers sitting next to each other for a significant length of time, working together in close contact, that presents a different kind of risk than is typical on the outside world. can osha say that for businesses with assembly lines workers must be vaccinated? >> no, not vaccinated. osha could go potentially industry by industry and workplace by workplace they could have measures and other guidance. >> as justice kagan has been discussing, those are sort of not as good. why wouldn't osha have the authority to do the best

do not wait to receive your primary vaccine for regimen, enter vaccines. please get your booster if you are eligible. back to you. jeff: let's open it up for some questions. >> thank you. my first question, let's go to nate at the hill. >> thank you for taking my question. i am wondering about tests. is there any effort underway in the administration to get medicare to cover some of these tests like insurance is doing. >> thank you. yes. on medicare, the program, as you know, already covers lab-based tests. it is exploring the best way to provide more testing options to medicare beneficiaries, and we emphasize that currently, they cannot get tested. there many free testing sites on the country, including over 10,000 local pharmacies and other convenient locations it provides 50 million free tests, at-home test, to community health centers, and to medicare health clinics. as you know, it is up and running for free tests for all americans. yes. the answer to your question is the program already does it they cover lab tests, and the other convenient place for

are you afraid of catching cove ed trying to have this ring new i'm vaccinated? fully vaccinated? reflect the fears still there. all that was that you can still catch corona when you're vaccinated. the risk, is there a completely ordinary person comes? i just think everything's completely normal, maj, banks, if johnson, and suddenly 10 people are infected, understood, does is. yeah, that's how corona spread it go. but remember, lord, hello everyone, please keep your distance. i'm vaccinated, but you might not be here. you go this year and i almost 2 years covey 19. and if you variance have kept the world on tenterhooks, that 1st to no one was sure exactly how the virus spreads. me every place people gathered, including markets, was seen as a risk, hulu. so the color market also closed for a while in 2020 at a later red barrier tape insured customers and vendors maintained the required distance with the barriers have disappeared. but there were lots of security guards who make sure people are wearing their mosques. regular customers keep coming all the same. now i shop here every s

so yeah, i think with covid vaccines we've definitely been very lucky and even with other vaccines i think of vaccines as actually much safer than a lot of drugs we take that have pretty strong side effects. but as you said, i think people just have this really strong psychological barrier against taking something when they're not sick. i mean we all sort of live with this hubris, right? it's not gonna happen to me. i'm not gonna get it. everybody else around me might but i'm gonna be fine. so i just don't want to take the chance. so i think there are a lot of people who think that way and that's partly why the anti-vax movement has gotten so strong during covid too because there's so many people who don't take covid very seriously. the mrna vaccines especially the safety profile seems to be great and you know in other infectious disease worlds, there's a lot of excitement actually about these now for hiv which you mentioned and formal area, which i was talking about earlier before we move off this vaccine development this particular specific topic. what do you think? the public does

please, get vaccinated. get your children vaccinated. if you're eligible for a booster, get a booster shot. third, the bind administration is deploying every available measure to help states confront the omicron challenge. military doctors and nurses and emts are assisting local hospitals in states across the country. this is with the addition to deploy as needed. we shipped 2.4 million pieces of protective equipment, ppe, and the last two to loan to help keep health care workers say. we establish free testing locations across the nation. there are additional new sites opening soon. in maine, maryland, nevada, delaware, texas, and washington state. we have worked aggressively to stop our nations medicine cabinet -- stocked our medicine cabinet with a portfolio that helps us member that we have more effective treatment available than any other point in the pandemic. yesterday, the president announced that he hasn't stopped it a team to double the u.s. government's purchase of the pfizer antiviral pill. from 10 million treatment courses in

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a year into the vaccination campaign. the campaign is moving into a new phase and children, anela allowed to be vaccinated. and starting last friday, 5 to 11 year olds were allowed to receive doses of the be on tech pfizer vaccine. it even though children out of, out of the $600000.00, a brazilians, that the crown of virus is killed only a few 100 of them have been children. but parents want this, a pole in january showed that a lot of them a well over 70 percent of the population actually support vaccinating children against the crown of virus. and m, as health officials have said, parents have been asking for for this. and for a long time, and if you ask the parents of the children who have just been vaccinated, they seem to be very relieved. take listen. 4020. we managed to get half of my son's vaccination with the 1st dose, and we are very happy to give him this opportunity. it's like giving him a new life, a chance of a happy and calm life as well. is it, it is sad that this is an example for children from 5 to 11 ye

from baylor said that he announced at vaccine was the world's vaccine. he is hoping that other vaccine manufacturers we to them about establishing infrastructure around the world. they have gone to the chronicle trials and nothing has come of it. they are trying to do something over there right now. what an earlier caller said about big pharma getting big money from the government, there is very little accountability. tommy, how could the cooperation from the richest country in the world but a stop to this virus? i think it's important for the u.s. to take a lead on this. >> how much money will the pharmaceutical companies make on the covid 19 vaccine? andrew: short answer is a lot. for moderna and pfizer, these are company changing products and they are the highest revenue product in pharmaceutical industry history. last year, we are talking in the range of 20 to $25 billion of revenue for each company there. just a staggering sum of money. there will be a question of if that will turn into a durable business from booster shots and if this virus stays e

vaccine works.there's a lot of nuance out there. should we be concerned about that loss of nuance. and if so why. >> it's been interesting to see this the way this plays out. i was fortunate to be part of a team at children's hospital philadelphia that created the strain that became the rotavirus vaccine. i certainly got to watch that vaccine from bench to bedside and i'm only all too grateful that the people who work indicating that vaccine are not the people who are communicating. i think there have been at least three major communication errors with this vaccine in terms of whether you're getting the first is use of breakthrough. if you're given a vaccine and you have a file, mildly symptomatic infection or an asymptomatic infection you want, that's the goal. the goal of this is to protect against serious illness. the kind that causes you to seek medical attention. that's the goal. it's the rare vaccine that prevents asymptomatic infection or mild asymptomatic infection when brett kavanaugh has a

people are designing different protein vaccines, nanoparticles vaccines, making the mrna vaccines with cocktails etc.. testing these and what we call the preclinical phase. i want to remind people vaccine developments in what we are experiencing now with the day to day, those development processes took far longer than what you see in the media. the research for the preclinical stages was done prior to this moment. to remain patient as we think about universal coronavirus vaccines, i want to remind everyone that the vaccines that are in use are doing well. keeping people from dying, out of the hospital. aside from pan vaccines, there are other mechanisms to take to stifle transmission such as intranasal delivery, etc., and all of these things are being investigated. the important thing is to remember that as the data continue to come out, the tide can shift in any direction. remain a top of it. >> the last couple of years has been such a trial -- triumph for vaccines, but there is this mantra that vaccines don't save lives, vaccinations do. what needs to change from your perspective? >>

the vaccine's? >> thank you to that question. the vaccine reporting that if you get hit by a car accident that gets reported in the system. vaccines protect us against omicron and protect us against bill to protect us against covid they don't protect us against any other former mortality out there. senator we keep numbers of people that die following covid test, do we have any idea? i'm just asking. select those who have died? following the vaccine. >> you know dr. fauci. you have any clue? 100? >> microphone, microphone. >> i don't have a number that part of the confusion is that when you do reporting at the get vaccinated and you walk out and get hit by a car that's the thing that gets confusing. everything that happens after the vaccination even if you die of something completely obvious and related is considered a death sofi have metastatic cancer and i'm vaccinated and i to weeks later that's aly death. >> every one of those is adjudicated. >> one quick question i'm in rural alabama. i test pos

we're all vaccinated. all of us. i boon. oh i for. but i guess is vexed. argentinians suffered under one of the hardest loc downs world wide. the restrictions meant dramatic economic consequences for many now the majority of people are vaccinated and the death rate is going down. the province of when aside ace, requires proof of vaccination for large open air events and indoor locations. some fans aren't allowed into the stadium. goopy now you're being denied entry because you don't have a pass on it, but it was good one, but the phone batteries empty. yeah. now what i didn't know, sissy my video lab and then she'll try turning it on again. maybe it'll work that up. but she's backed. yeah. i went over for this police officer tells bands they won't get in without a coping. health pass, but checks don't seem strictly enforced. did they not be your help pass? no, yes they do. and what did they want to see? you didn't care that much here, but it's important. yes. we continue onward to idaho gay. another suburb of boy? no saudis we're payi

whereas vaccination kids are the ones are vaccinated against measles. but that is, that makes sense. we still haven't gone. right. totally, utterly amazed, or order or polio. so with the vaccination where we're controlling it now for cove, it the fans, we have as a speaker from cambridge said, you know, yes, cup mortality and got the high level of morbidity. you know the elements, but it doesn't transmission. so we still need more assess for better vaccines. this should not be here of the vaccines. we have him, that's it, which would really in for better vaccines. but meantime, we have effective vaccines, very good vaccines around and they should be available to other countries. so that they don't have mutation and you can look at the serious, mutate the serious variance. so the variance off again. so then that you get one, the next thing they started and spread in india when the level of explanation in india was usually low, very low was under 5 percent. and then on the south africa was again, low vaccination. so it's yes, south africa compared to, let

a vaccines by a vaccine fight hepatitis c by a vaccines by cat atreides b or human papilloma vaccine when we went to the mrna virus in many ways they were easier to do because he just needed that one gene. it was in many ways you knew what you are interested in. you are interested inur the gene so many ways it was the fastest vaccine to make it easier than the others. that sort of surprised me. what really surprised me negatively was how bad we were at handling this pandemic just with a simple things like making sure we could have adequate tese and masking in social distancing and the kinds of things that could have gotten us under much better control. we were one of the worst countries and we had 4% of the world's population and 20% of the world's deaths. i wouldn't have imagined as technologically dances we are to have dunn. we claim american exceptionalism. we are far from exceptionalism. >> host: i think we will see how we end up with mortality globally. i think we do sometimes fall prey to theseth comparisons because we are better at identifying deaths than other places and we a

rather than the best vaccine. he was like the messenger automate. but i really can't comment too much about about the subject. it's something between between tickets or bank, then let's take it to bank of the room. press on. would you like to weigh in on this? yes, we should. politics and the whole vaccine inequities audible politics. for example, there was a recent paper restored that at about 100 companies around the world, including african countries. where am i didn't have actions could have been manufacture on it. what you call ramped up scale. but we are seeing are there that it is happening on top of it. we are frightening the buses of the ones who also i incidentally more than not got the money from public ex chicken of united states. if i made it got to man manufactured the mother maxine and the costliest max. and so we need to talk politics. we need to talk about global health governance. right to alex on, i was saying a persona also, it's not just the shortages of the vaccine of an effect, the logistics

so the vaccines do provide a kind of baseline protection. it's perhaps less than against the original strain or the alpha variant, but they offer very good protection against severe disease. what's forced me and after a booster, that seems to hold true for armor crohn as well. yeah, and it's, we're getting that very likely, in the way that the vaccines are being distributed globally is quite simply unfair . as to what extent is this that see nationalism responsible for the fact that the pandemic is still ongoing yonge freedom. that aspect does play a decisive role vendor yet shown. if we were at the point of delivering boosters everywhere in the world and the risk of new variance emerging would be significantly lower. toyed leash, he would see that. and if we can't manage to comprehend and address the pandemic as a global challenge for, it will continue to spread around the world lighter. that's part of the problem often owns on to and this is helped me to probably my attic russell satellite needs to happen. so that we can look back at all t

we've had the polio vaccine, measles vaccine, smallpox vaccine. we've had several other vaccines through this. my question to you, what is the difference between the omicron vaccine and the covid-19 vaccine? what is the difference between that virus and the numeral amount of other vaccines that have been produced and required to take? and i don't want to hear this scripted answer that you are probably reading or memorizing. where is the difference between those vaccines and the present vaccine? i will take your question off the line. guest: well, i would say one thing is this vaccine is for many things -- thing is there's vaccines for many things, but when something is approved for experimental use, you have to look at that. they should have that conversation with their doctor and it should not be their government that is encouraging -- you know, to have their will imposed on it by private industry because they are trying to get something done they cannot do themselves. so when we look at this, it is about making sure that people make the decision

so 2021 was the year vaccines 2022 should be the year of vaccination. so all those people in the world who are unvaccinated, and that would be about, well, just under 40 percent, now i've not received the single dose and 90 percent of the people and low income countries have not been vaccinated at all. we need to vaccinate everybody, and now, you know, as i'm a kind of spreading, we recognize that we may need booster doses as well. so, vaccination, complete vaccination, maybe the original series, the 2, the 2 jobs got originally plus a booster. and you know, we need to get boosters every 6 months. i hope not. that may be unrealistic. but it's going to be very important to make sure that people are fully vaccinated in order to gain the benefit of vaccination, reducing hospitalizations and dr. kim, increasingly, in policy makers we, he'll, the, the phrase will doing tough to learn to live with us. is that possible human kind going to have to adapt to the presence of this virus? this condition is going to be over with us. yes. so in particular among the cu

vaccine drive is a success on d. give some, but that, that i think though, might, for the children themselves, an infection is often asymptomatic as we saw. but we want to prevent the virus from being transmitted to the elderly. my god, who we already know are the most vulnerable group. my son, he just at the same time, will that with kept in mind that school resumes in march. i'm up on the seat is enough. so by then we'll be able to say that this group is double vaccinated to los he has as buddha, the family can now go home with the renewed peace of mind. the sisters are looking forward to seeing their grandparents and their friends from school again. no science correspondence, derek williams has been following the progress of chiles. vaccine roll out, though it's not yet dominant. the highly contagious on the chrome variant is now on the rise in chile to the discovery and spread of new mutations is an additional issue of growing importance for avi. was world wide o disassembled analysis, the blurry tree distinguish

vaccines would need to occur by february 9, you need to vaccines to comply, the vaccines would have to start immediately. drop record-keeping cannot happen overnight and on tests, you heard the media reports we've all seen about shortages of tests and cost creasing our declarations, page 345 and 374 confirmed that asth well and its exactly why workers will quit and you don't have to take our. reporter: , the federal government and postal service and amtrak are the same things, they cherry picked one study about healthcare workers, a specific industry in the rates would be. two declaration sites but appendix pages 351 and 374 and my second points are about who decides public interest and i submit this president's answer that. we're not asking to reverse anything, four years ago injustices opinion said there's absence of the mandate and osha is unreasonable to assume congress gave osha unprecedented power over the industry and emergency power narrowly circumscribed, osha has never before mandated vaccines or widespread testing over all industries or an emergency basis whether we talk abo

a vaccine advent reporting system is a report that happens after being vaccinated. if you got hit by a car tragically after being vaccinated, that gets reported in the system. the vaccines are incredibly safe. they protect us against omicron, they protect us against >> do you have any clue on that? hundred? >> i don't know the number. >> microphone. >> sorry. i don't have a number but i think part of the confusion is when you do a reporting, if you get vaccinated and you walk out and get hit by a car, that is considered a death. that's the thing that gets confusing. everything that happens after the vaccination, even if you die of something completely obviously unrelated, it's considered a death. so, if i had med static cancer and got vaccinated, that's a death. >> and every one of those is adjudicated. >> i understand. i'm in rural alabama. i get a home test and test positive. asymptomatic. what do i do? people call what do i do? i don't have a doctor around. >> so, you're asymptomatic? no symptoms, feel well? >> yes. >> you stay home for five days and the next fiv

vaccines are safe.r the sake of your kids and the sake of the country. i don't like to you know, outline the next steps we're taking against, i like to outline the next steps we're taking against the omicron variant. vaccinations are the most important thing we're doing with you not the only important thing. first, maskinging. masking is an important tool to control the spread of covid-19 and when you're indoors in public place, you should wear the mask. there are a lot, you know, lots of different kinds of masks out there. the center for disease control and prevention the cdc worrying a well-fitting mask of any of them is certainly better than not wearing a mask. if it's well-fitting. over your nose. it's about one-third of americans report they don't wear a mask at all. as i've said in the last two years, please wear a mask. i think it's part of your patriotic duty. it's not that comfortable. it's a pain in the neck. but i've taken ever action i can as president to require people to wear a mass income

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we should really aim for better vaccines but in the meantime, we have effective vaccines, very good vaccines they should be available to other countries so that we don't have mutations. and look at the serious variant. alpha started in the u.k. when there were no vaccines. the level of vaccination in india was unusually low, under 5%. and then this one, omicron started in south africa again with low vaccination. south africa has a higher vaccination. anchor: i see your point. >> we need vaccinations and although to middle income countries. anchor: some people think this could be an indication that we are going back to before 2020. the problem is you have the concern there, you have patients with complications and the idea that you have to maintain a massive vaccination campaign to confidently tell people that we could live with covid way it is in the near future. are we talking about a decision that is unlikely to have huge economic ramifications? >> i don't agree. we have always had that vulnerable population and so has every other country. we have just told them they are more vulnerable th

, the vaccine pulse. i haven't got sort of such high figures every french child before going to primary school to kindergarten has 11 mandatory vaccines, again, tv against polio, against a curio status, et cetera. and it's, it's, it's an, it's passed into, into sort of french uses. in the 1st instance, it was an outlandish claim to say that this was like, sloop, it was not true. it's all. and in fact, we could criticize our governments of being lacks, in the public health measures. now that you know that the impact of it in the well developed countries, how it involves vaccination program with people who wanted vaccination of taken ups is very different. and i do feel it is time know to relax restrictions on the nation because of the only people i see benefiting from vaccine mandates. all these pharmaceutical companies, no one else is benefiting from. and i think we genuine the are in this together. we need to make sure that we share the vaccine patients and how those countries to build the infrastructure

vaccine but they are filling up our hospital because they're not receiving a vaccine. and the other thing is you're telling people it's only for a vaccine mandate when it's for testing, too, you need to put that in there with that. we need a mandate here in indiana because my granddaughter is being sent to school without a mask, her -- one of her parents is not vaccinated and they're not planning on it because it's a political thing. it's not about their health at all. and i tend to being maybe they just don't understand that the vaccine is good for our country and it would help our inflation if they would vaccine more people. host: ok, lindsey. congressman, your thoughts? guest: again, we go back to a bipartisan covid committee the congress has that was put in place early last year after president biden came to power. there was a recommendation starting in april to look at home testing kits in october, certainly in the fall. president biden refused to have the money spent to develop 750 million home testing kits and now what we're seeing is we have no testing kits. i'

the vaccine. he developed it, he took it, he took therapeutics. i have taken the shot. two months later, i had a breakthrough and had covid. i had in my friends circle people that have things with their bodies that they do not feel it is safe to take the shot. why can't we have some sort of antibody test that also qualifies. so many that are losing their jobs and such. if they've already had it and had antibodies, why can't that be a definitive action? guest: we would wish for definitive antibody tests and you are now going to be in the advanced class. the commercially available antibody tests will tell you if you have had previous infection and give you a sense of how much antibody you have. they are less reliable in telling you whether you have protection after having been vaccinated. the antibody tests available commercially through your doctor's office can tell you whether you have had previous infection. bear in mind, even if you have had previous infection, it is advised that you nonetheless

we have all of the vaccines we need for every american to be vaccinated including the booster shot. there is no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we have to make more progress. please get them vaccinated. look at for their interest. it is the best way to protect them. surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. make sure you are masking in public so you don't get covid and give it to your kids. we have no reason to think omicron is worse for children than previous variance. we know that kids can be safe in school. that is why i believe schools should remain open. in the american rescue plan, the second month we were in office that i signed in march, we provided the states with 130 alien dollars -- $130 billion. social distancing in classrooms, on buses. that money went out to the states. i encourage states and school districts to use funding to protect your children and keep schools open. countries around the world are seeing rising cases. our team has been working around the clock. in the last two weeks, we have deployed hundreds o

and that thanks to vaccines. and we have other weapons to throw this now in the form of an bars drugs. it's not a given that if we vaccinate everybody, we will no longer face variance because the sobering prospects and the sobering observation is that only chrome, which has brought many countries back to the brink of locked downs or actually physically and to lockdown. this emerged in the context of south africa, which was pretty highly vaccinated as african countries go. and they were declaring at the time, only con, emerged just a few 100 cases per day, while the u. k, for example, was having up to 50000. so it's not a given, the vaccines stop variance, but what we can do with vaccines based on the u. k and other countries experience is we can convert severe disease into trivial disease. and that should be, i'll go, yes, we need to, i'm to stop people dying and that means across the entire world. but we shouldn't kid ourselves that this. as soon as we achieve that magic vaccination of the world, the covey disas

they made some good vaccines. i myself was the beneficiary of the pfizer biotech vaccine. the problem was not balancing that -- not balancing the ecosystem, putting all of the eggs and the pharma basket and not igniting we have some outstanding vaccine producers in lower income countries. that is what we have been doing for the last 20 years. the other thing we do, we build capacity. we invite scientists to come into our labs to learn how to make vaccines under a quality umbrella. you cannot walk into moderna or pfizer and say, show me how to make a vaccine. we think the problem is not balancing that model better. that is what we are doing now. for me, the biggest frustration was never really getting the support from the g7 countries. not only was i going on cable news networks and talking about the disinformation empire that was building out of the white house in 2020, but trying to raise meager funds just to get started. founately, we were able to get funding through texas and new york-based philanthropies, and that made -- we raised about $7 million. we were able to pay