that every other fully approved vaccine has done. the fda is the gold standard in the world in terms of a regulatory body. there s no other national regulatory authority that matches the fda. now, according to our nbc news count, total covid cases in the united states have now passed 38 million. 1 million new cases have been added over just these last six days. cdc data showing over 51% of us are now fully vaccinated. nearly 61% have had at least one dose. and as the president recommended, more vaccine mandates are going into effect. earlier today, the country s largest school system announced its own rules. all teachers and staff in the new york city public school system must have at least one dose in them by september 27. pentagon also preparing to send specific vaccination guidelines to over a million active duty service members. meanwhile, speaking of the
barrier to entry. what have been your greatest, emphasize worst, but greatest hits list lately in what you ve been seeing in the information/disinformation campaigns? what s the worst of it out there? i think in the u.s., the fact that we re still dealing with antimask sentiment is pretty astounding based on the fact that we know what the science is now, we have a very densely networked set of doctors globally that are trading information and are keeping each other abreast of any developments with the pandemic. but in the united states, there still seems to be this debate. and we see it actually playing out in school boards as well, that children can t get sick from covid, that the masks don t work, that the vaccines are something that should be a personal choice, of course we saw that with the trump speech last night, and the booing. and so for me it s still first
managing editor of time magazine. dr. celine gounder, professor of infectious diseases at nyu, part of a panel that advised the biden transition team on covid-19. doctor, given the gravity of today s news, in your line of work, i would like to begin with you and begin with this comment from dr. fauci earlier tonight. there is a survey that says about 30% of people who are saying they wanted to wait for the stamp of approval, for the imprimatur, to get vaccinated. i hope they come through on what their word and their statement was. for those still hesitant, i believe we should have many more mandates. if people want to participate in things that have the safety of other people at stake, they need to get vaccinated. so doctor, for you, a two-part question, if you would. number one, how big a benchmark
we ve been seeing health misinformation as a problem for years. but the speed, scale, and sophistication with which it is spreading and impacting our health is really unprecedented. and it s happening largely aided and abetted by social media platforms. our next guest was able to correctly predict much of the misinformation surrounding covid. and joan donovan has a warning as reported by the boston globe, and we quote, if facebook, twitter, youtube and other social media companies don t change their algorithms, any number of recent lies spreading online could take hold in the next few months and threaten the national discourse around the pandemic recovery, climate change, and racial inequality. for more we re happy to welcome to the broadcast the aforementioned joan donovan. she s research director of the
correctly predict much of the misinformation surrounding covid, and as warning by the if based book, twitter, youtube and other social media companies don t change their algorithms, any number of recent lies spreading online could take hold in the next few months and threaten the national discourse around the pandemic, recovery climate change, and racial inequality. for more we are happy to welcome the broadcast, the a for mentioned, joan donovan. she s research director on the media politics, and public policy up at the harvard kennedy school, she s an expert in online extremism, medium and ovulation, disinformation, and joan, doctor fauci famously said, it s a good thing this much anti vaccine sentiment was not in the water when we were trying to cure smallpox and polio, or we would still today be dealing with rampant smallpox and polio.