of our population vaccinated, we re not going to see that at all. remember, we have about 70 million people in the population who are eligible to be vaccinated, who have not yet gotten vaccinated. if we can get most of those people vaccinated, when i say the overwhelming majority, we will not see the kinds of deaths that you just mentioned. all right, dr. anthony fauci, thanks so much for answering our questions today. good to be with you, thank you, jake. president biden is accusing our next guest of putting people s lives at risk with his covid stance, the governor of the state with the highest covid death rate will join me next. and could democratic infiekting end up tanking president biden s agenda, a key dead lynn comes next week, democratic house whip jim clyburn is coming up, stay with us.
everyone after six months. recommending, instead, boosters only for those 65 and older and those at high risk of severe disease. only furthering confusion, for so many americans, as the pandemic hits another horrifying milestone this week, one in 500 americans have died from the virus, more than 673,000 people represented here on the national mall with flags for each death. this debate over boosters comes as the biden administration is on its heels, with a number of of crises of its own doing, facing a devastating acknowledgment from the pentagon friday that a drone strike in afghanistan killed ten civilians, a surge of migrants at the southern border leaving thousands of people, mostly from haiti, huddled under a bridge as they wait to be processed and a diplomatic breakdown with american ally france after a new national security partnership with the uk and australia. we begin today with the pandemic.
hospitalized and some 87% of those who are of the deaths, are actually coming from those who are unvaccinated. so the number one thing you can do is you can get talk to your doctor about getting vaccinated. the number two thing is if you get the virus, and this is very important, if you get the virus, please talk to your doctor about the monoclonal antibody treatment. that s the best way in which to do that. unfortunately the biden administration continues to try to reduce the allocation to red states like mississippi and florida of that monoclonal antibody treatment. it s outrageous. governor, if mississippi were a country, you would have the second worst per capita death toll in the world, and i m saying are you going to do anything to try to change that? jake, as i mentioned earlier, deaths unfortunately are a lagging indicator. our total number of cases went
americans. you re calling the move tyrannical. so our viewers understand it, president biden says he s using a workplace safety law called the occupational safety and health act to justify the mandate. that law says that the government can impose an emergency order if it determines, quote, that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances, or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful, or from new hazards, and that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger. i mean, if there ever were a reason to use this law, wouldn t it be during a pandemic with almost 2,000 americans dying every day? well, again, jake, over 9,000 mississippians have passed away with covid, and every single one of them breaks my heart. it is a very difficult situation that we as mississippians and we as americans find ourselves in, but we also have to understand, as we look forward, if this president has the ability to mandate vaccines, what powers do
mandate vaccines, what powers do we not grant this president? what does he not have the ability to do? and from my friends on the left i just want to point something out. this should scare democrats as much as it scares republicans. the fact is, if we give unilateral authority by one individual to do anything that he wants to do, whether it s a jab in the arm or anything else, then this country is in deep, deep, deep trouble and that s not something that i m willing to stand by and allow him to do. obviously we ve made it very clear that we are prepared to sue once we actually see the rule. that s another point that i think your viewers need to know, jake, is that we haven t seen the actual rule itself. had a press conference ten days ago or so when this initially came out. let s see what the rule actually says or let s see if it s like the eviction order that the president signed onto, knowing that he was going to get thrown out by the supreme court and of