and that should make it easier for schools to meet the requirements. president biden will leave for atlanta, georgia. the president will be visiting the cdc just after this new guidance came out. there s a live look at joint base andrews. they say that they are about to hit the vaccination goal of 100 million doses a day. they will do it today, i should say, the original plan was for the president and vice president to promote that package. but the shooting changed those plans. now the first joint trip will also include a meeting with asian american community leaders in georgia. the top concern, rising anti-asian rhetoric and violence this past year. a hearing on discrimination got heated on the hill, got personal as well. we will talk to georgia congressman hank johnson who sits on that committee. what he wants to hear from the president and vice president today in atlanta. we start with that breaking news from the centers for disease control, the cdc now saying, three
year that eventually, we will likely need a third immunization of the pfizer and the moderna vaccine. a booster. the reason for that is it will really jack up virus neutralizing antibodies, provide more robust resilience against the variants to come. as good a job as we are doing in the u.s., where he doing a non-job in africa and south america and southeast asia. we are extremely vulnerable to lots of variant comesing in. a third immunization at some point maybe later in the fall or next year will likely be warranted in order to provide greater resilience to the variants. point one. point two is it looks like the two doses of the current vaccine are pretty robust against the delta variant. you cite that 64% number in israel. in terms of severe illness, it s well over 90%. by the way, in the uk and