if you are not vaccinated, you have a much higher risk of getting infected and a much, much higher risk if you do get infected of getting a serious outcome requiring hospitalization. if you are vaccinated, you are less likely to get infected andless likely to have a serious outcome. if you are vaccinated and boosted, you have even less of a chance of getting a serious outcome if you re infected. so there will be breakthrough inspections among vaccinated people but the important thing is the likelihood of you getting into serious trouble if you re infected as a breakthrough infection from vaccine is much, much less than if you are completely unvaccinated, which is the reason why we continue to stress to people the importance of why it is that they should get vaccinated and if vaccinated, why it s important to get boosted. and so even if you re saying if you re vaccinated and
covid. and we really have to understand that. and as a whole now, are the unvaccinated in your view setting back the near 50% of americans who have been vaccinated? well, i echo what dr. walensky has said. this is really becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and young people are included in that group. but what we re seeing is that people who are vaccinated, they might get breakthrough inspections, but in general they re asymptomatic, it is the unvaccinated group that s getting sick, admitted to the hospital. this is a huge problem because we are facing another surge that s coming, and in addition to that, fred, we also have this pandemic of misinformation that people are seeing, that they re hearing about. the surgeon general has called out this misinformation. it has been a huge hurdle for us to get past to reach people. and i think what we need to see right now as we look at the vaccination rates across the country, we see where this is lagging. it s lagging in certain areas,