death hospital stay and god forbid, even death as hospital stay and god forbid, even death as well. so it s trying to make death as well. so it s trying to make sure death as well. so it s trying to make sure that we are safeguarding those make sure that we are safeguarding those most vulnerable. this time around those most vulnerable. this time around we those most vulnerable. this time around we have got the flu vaccination for covid 19. and we have vaccination for covid 19. and we have got vaccination for covid 19. and we have got the flu vaccine looking out of the have got the flu vaccine looking out of the variant strains. last year we didn t of the variant strains. last year we didn t have of the variant strains. last year we didn t have covid vaccine in our community didn t have covid vaccine in our community is giving us that protection. and the flu vaccine was not expanded to a bigger group. this year we not expanded to a bigger group. this year we are
one is someone who halls had covid, do they have more or less immunity than somebody who has a vaccine but didn t have covid? that s a really important question and one that is being actively scientifically followed. we do know that people who have infection induced immunity get a robust response. some of them do. we have seen data that has demonstrated that we have also seen data that if you vaccinate both people they re two and a half times more protected than they would have been if you don t vaccinate those people. and that s the reason for the recommendation vaccinate people who have infection induced immunity. importantly though, there are things we don t know. so we don t know, for example, what if you only had mild disease? or what if you had disease months ago and how much has your immunity waned or, in fact, what if you had a different variant? how well is your protection against delta variant if you have had alpha or wild type
for those already immune. by the way, those with chickenpox are told by the cdc if you had it in the past, you should not get the varicella vaccine, it s the same immune system, it should be the same guidance. paul: so why is the administering if focusing so much on vaccinations as their great priority as opposed to a more nuanced message that says let s focus on those who don t have any vaccination and didn t have covid? they dug in early, and they decided that vaccinating every american was going to be the strategy that gets it of the the pandemic out of the pandemic. it became entrenched, and it quickly was such that any data on natural immunity threatened that position that became an edict from from on high. and as a result, i believe that they ve hurt their own credibility by ignoring natural immunity. it hurt the level of honesty by public health officials.
protection level is equal tore or equal to people who didn t have covid and got two doses. we are very aligned. do be careful of delta. don t be alarmed. we are in very good position. get your vaccine whether you have had covid or not. bret: admiral, what do you say there is polls out that say that people who haven t gotten vaccination for one reach or another scared of it, skeptical of the government. they don t know whether they want to wait until another iteration of the vaccine, 78% of them said they are not going to go forward and get it what do you tell those people about the vaccination? well, i think we have to be completely honest with the american people. as i think for the most part we have been. we have hundreds of millions of people that have been vaccinated. we know that the vaccines have very safe and they are very effective. we have to keep working with individuals on that. i agree with dr. makary. we are in a very good place right now. we are not 100 percent out of
on. itm. thank you. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. we reached out to loudoun county schools and we did not hear back. thank you to jessica fred and patty, we appreciate it. let s check in with senior meteorologist janice dean live at elmont in new york ahead of the belmont stakes. you said you were maybe going to be there. you pulled it off, janice. janice: here i am. and do you know what? it s cloudy but we are expecting a beautiful weekend for the 153rd running of the belmont snakes elmont. the post time is 649 tomorrow. they typically have around 70,000 people on a year that didn t have covid. and this year they are expecting about 12,000 people. and tickets are still available. it s going to be an exciting day. let s take a look at the weather. so glad it s not raining on my hat christine is the milliner that designed this fascinating fascinator.