strain on the u.s. health care system. earlier i spoke to dr. william shafner, and i asked him if he thought the approval could lead to vaccine mandates. take a listen. we re in a war against this virus. and so far we ve depended on a volunteer army. those who come forward to be vaccinated. but delta changed the war. now we have to draft people. do some doctors throw their arms up in the air and just wonder sometimes when you have to work with and maybe save the life of someone who is not listening to this scientific data and to advice from medical experts? well, i will tell you honestly that there are people who are on the front lines in the intensive care units, not just the doctors, but the nurses and technicians, who have had to from time to time take a deep
expertise, william shafner. doctor, the biden covid team is wrestling with this. suddenly a lot of red and a lot of orange on a map that looked a lot better a couple weeks ago. one of the conversations is should the cdc be recommending masks again? where do you fall? well, i think certainly anybody who is older, john, who is more likely to get severe disease. people who are compromised. why, of course, put on your mask when you re indoors or going shopping. that makes good common sense. i think local health departments and state health departments are debating this just the way the the cdc is. public health recommendations have to be acceptable by the people to whom they re directed. and in parts of the country, my own part of the country included, i don t think that there would be a whole lot of acceptance of going back to mask wearing. but it s really quite clear the
the majesty of the seas just a few days ago. dr. william shafner is from the vanderbilt university school of medicine joining us on the phone from nashville. thank you for being with us. when you re in a position are where hundreds are sick on this cruise ship which obviously is confined, a lot of people are wondering what makes ships so susceptible to outbreaks like this? what happens is that some passengers may actually bring the virus, if that s what the cause is, on to the ship and then because people are so confined and they have such close contact with each other, the virus can spread very, very readily. i equate this in some small ways to flying. i m always a little leery when you get on a plane, especially during the flu season, all the coughing, all breathing the same air. but this goes on for a week. how does someone protect him or herself when they board this
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america will do what we must to prevent a nuclear armed iran. [cheers and applause] for young israelis i know that these issues ever security are rooted in an experience that is even more fundamental than the pressing threat of the day. you live in a neighborhood where many of your neighbors have rejected the right of your nation to exist, and your grandparents had to risk their lives and all that they had to make a place for themselves in this world. your parents lived through war arwar to insure the survival of the jewish state. your children grow up knowing that people they ve never met may hate them because of who they are in a region that is full of turmoil and changing underneath your feet. so that s what i think about when israel faces these challenges. that sense of an israel that is surrounded by many in this region who still reject it, and many in the world who refuse to accept it. that s why the security of the jewish people in israel is so important, it cannot b