and even now, it s not the absorbent of or delivery problem that s a problem. there is no vaccine, you can t even talk about delivery or absorption capacity when there is no vaccine. doctor gavin gamy of duke university said that rich countries behaved worse than anyone s worst nightmares. and he s not even talking about american reaching peak vulgarity by offering people one and a half million dollars to get vaccinated. he s talking about america and other countries reluctance to share vaccine supplies with poor countries. 66% of americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine. and africa, that number is less than 2%. joining us now is james, an economist at the lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas. thank you very much for joining us tonight.
so this brings to nine the number of packages. the ones we knew about yesterday. then we found out late last night there were two that were sent to congresswoman maxine waters. one found at the facility outside washington that screens mail for congress. the other found at a screening facility or a postal facility near her office in los angeles. and then this morning, the one to biden that was found in new castle, delaware. they were looking for that one yesterday. because a postal worker thought he or she remembered seeing it going through the system. so eyes were already on that as of late last night. they thought perhaps it was because of a delivery problem or insufficient postage. it was to be returned. they thought it made it back to florida. then they found it at this postal facility where it was going to be returned to the return address on it. but, i mean, the good thing now is that everybody pretty much knows what to look for. and that is the good news on the de niro package.
problems, which is to say if they can t pass healthcare, how are they going to pass tax reform or infrastructure or anything? i don t think there s a reason that democrats now would work with them. they have no incentive. in fact, i think their incentives are perverse. they should be obstructionisobs. they will do to republicans what republicans did to them. this could be ugly. we are looking at a possible government shutdown coming up. man who would have thunk it it would end up this way. you raise a bunch of issues. we want to get to the democrats and the government shutdown possibility. rebecca, the president said he would repeal and replace obamacare, that didn t happen this travel ban thing he proposed, that s not happening. he s not building the wall right now with mexico. when he does, mexico won t pay for it. does he have a delivery problem here politically especially with republicans?
see them there, then loaded the stacks into the backs of their cars and headed out on their assigned routes. readers were grateful. i ve been hearing from them all morning. one family even put out this thank you sign right there on the front lawn. it s a really interesting story because it shows, like barry diller was saying, there s still an appetite for printed newspapers. second, if it s not reliable, people will get frustrated. the phone server at the boston globe crashed earlier this week from all the customer complaints. that s when reporters started to rise up and say to the ceo, we re willing to come in and help deliver the paper. this sometimes does happen in smaller markets, with community papers, sometimes weekly papers. my college paper, i used to deliver it to campus. but to see the staff of the boston globe come together to do this is remarkable. they re probably asleep right now. hopefully this delivery problem will work itself out very soon.
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