but we re preparing as if it will be imminent. so we re going to be ready to do it whenever the data shows that the protection is gone below a certain level because of a combination of the durability of protection and the special effect you re seeing with the delta variant. joining us now is andy slavitt, the president s former senior adviser for covid response and author of preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response. also cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. we just talked to fauci. he talked about how tomorrow the fda is expected to announce authorizing a third vaccine dose for immunocompromised. what do you make about what he said about boosters and third doses for the general population? do you think the u.s. should be more aggressive in this? well, you know, i think it makes sense for the immunocompromised right now for some of the reasons dr. fauci was talking about. you know that peop
it would have been prevented. reporter: many hospitals now feeling the strain, particularly in states with low vaccination rates. there is outbreaks following the unvaccinated strategy all over the place with hospitals just about to tip over. a moral equation has to shift. stop protecting the unvaccinated. they re selfish. they re greedy. they re not doing the right thing by their neighbors. reporter: now, there is some good news. the pace of vaccination is back on the rise. average daily shots in arms just kept above half a million a day for the first time, wolf, since the middle of june. back to you. all right. nick watt reporting for us. thank you. let s bring in our pandemic experts, the former senior adviser to the biden white house covid response team. he s the author of the book preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, selfishness doomed the
progress, but our hospitals are still being overwhelmed. we are still setting new case records. we are in a half into the pandemic, it s still affecting the highest levels of our government. lindsey graham announced today she has passed he has tested positive for covid. mild symptoms, and grateful he is fully vaccinated for covid, otherwise s symptoms could have been worse. glad he said that. graham was at a party this weekend on the houseboat, and no other senators there have received covid given their exposure to senator lindsey graham. all of this is unsustainable. we can t keep doing this. when needs to change? what are we even capable of doing differently? joining us now is former biden s administrative for covid response to the author of preventable, how leadership failures, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus
otherwise, his symptoms could be a lot worse. i am glad he said that. he was reportedly at a party this weekend on senator joe manchin s houseboat. so far none of the other senators have tested positive and whether they plan to quarantine given their exposure to senator lindsey graham.t nc all of this is unsustainable. we can t keep doing this. what needs to change? what are we capable of doing differently? joining us now is andy slavitt, former biden administration white house senior adviser for covid response, the author of t the inside leadership, failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the coronavirus response. good to see you.s leadership failures, politics and selfishness continue to be detrimental to us. there are selfish people out there who are challenging those of us who are vaccinated.e
his new book is called preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response. mr. slavitt, good evening, good to see you, again. joshua. so what do you make of that remark? acknowledge the war has changed, especially in light of this new-cdc report? well, the job of the cdc to keep up with all the changes that we are seeing with the virus, and to report to us, honestly and clearly. and what the cdc s seeing now is, what? they are seeing a virus that can spread among unvaccinated people, in as little as five minutes. they are seeing some erosion of the level of efficacy of the vaccine, towards the end of people who have been taking it for a while. they are seeing some other issues, which are causing local communities to see more and more pervasive threat. so, what they ve said, basically, is this looks like a different virus than the 2020 version did. it s far more easy to catch. you can catch it in in much qui