eloquently about the importance of vaccination, and i m so sad that they lost family members. dr. walensky was very eloquent. she said clearly, yes, children are at lower risk, but it s not zero. you know, covid has become within one year one of the ten leading causes of death in children in this country. wow. as elizabeth said, 400 children have died of covid since this virus hit our shores. that s serious business. you know, you can talk about lower risk, but if it s your child, it s 100%. these vaccines are safe. they are effective. we should be vaccinating every child 12 years of age and older. and, of course, all the adults in school. in addition, another thing that could be done in order to make schools safe is if our communities were safer. if everyone currently
what now is happening is there are excess doses that have been produced by most of the high-income countries. our estimates are somewhere between 1.5 billion to 2 billion doses. those can supplement the doses we ve purchased. we ve purchased about 3.4 billion doses of vaccine. but if those countries are willing to make those vaccines available now, we can move those forward. for example, the u.s. did its first donation with us to honduras last weekend. dr. seth berkley, good luck with this. obviously none of us can get out of this pandemic until the world gets out of this pandemic. i really appreciate you coming on and sharing your perspective with us. thank you, chuck, for having me. when we come back, mask wearing and social distancing may be on the wane. life after the pandemic may look quite a bit different than it did before this virus hit. that s next. [ ] are you constantly cleaning and sanitizing your bathroom? for an easy solution that lasts, try microban24 bathroom cle
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deal and focuses on physical infrastructure. there was a time when something like this would check boxes on both sides and put a bow on it and gotten it done. will that happen this time? i sure hope so. a lot of it depends on how we pay for it. we feel like we have reasonable pay-fors. to your point, if i can get bridges in louisiana that cross the mississippi river and connect shreveport and lafayette, i m doing my job and i hope we can get this across. martha: so give us a quick example of your pay-fors. we know the white house is very determined to raise taxes to pay for this. yeah, there wouldn t be we won t touch the tax cuts and jobs bill. that s what republicans view as giving us the prosperity that was record prosperity before the covid virus hit. some of our pay-fors are taking dollars already allocated for covid relief, but which are no