pandemic of the unvaccinated, the chosen unvaccinated. the cdc saying an alarming spike in cases and deaths could be on the way very soon because tens of millions of americans who could be vaccinated refuse to do so. here is a headline you may have seen earlier this week. the air force discharging 27 people for refusing to get the vaccine. the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shot. but i want you to know the real headline you probably missed. 27 people left. well, guess what, as of december 10, the pentagon says that more than 96% of all active duty personnel have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. that is great news. so let s get the latest from miguel almaguer in los angeles. miguel? reporter: stephanie, good morning. we re looking at a convergence of several issues. delta is hammering hospitals across the nation. omicron cases are now beginning to circulate here in the u.s.,
stephanie, just this summer, 150,000 unvaccinated americans have needlessly lost their lives despite the widespread availability of vaccines. i don t even know what you call that anymore. and the problem is we re not out of this by any means. hold on 150 say that to us one more time. since this summer, what happened? since june 1, stephanie, 150,000 unvaccinated americans have lost their lives because they got sick and died from covid. 150,000 lives thrown away completely for no reason at all other than political ideology. and that number is about and that number isn t done yet. we re not done, stephanie. that number is about to double to 300,000 because the health metrics says we re going to get to around 1 million americans who have lost their lives from covid by the end of q1, 2022.
unvaccinated americans have needlessly of lost their lives. since june 1 of this year, 150,000 unvaccinated americans have needlessly lost their lives. none of those individuals had to loose their life. if you lose their life. if you care about your life and your loved ones, get your vaccine. arthel: doctor, appreciate your knowledge. thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. arthel: molly. molly: customs and border protection catching a stow-away who somesomehow survived a journey of 1,000 miles in landing gear department. officials waited for the american airlines flight. paramedics ran a quick medical check on the man while on the tarmac. he was brought to a local hospital for treatment and taken into custody. officials say he was trying to sneak into the u.s. arthel: a new migrant caravan is heading towards the u.s. border, raising major health
vaccinated are often under-vaccinated. i think it s going to be really important that everyone follow through, get your booster if you re eligible and if you ve been infected and recovered the level of protective immunity is highly variable and you can smooth had that out and ensure protection by getting vaccinated on top of being infected and recovered. this delta variant that i m worried about, that really hammered our state of texas over the summer and then across the south, i m worried we re starting to see the beginning of that winter wave in the upper midwest. we have a lot to worry about from the existing delta variant. arthel: 30 seconds before we go, doctor. you ve got a lot of people who he remain vaccine hesitant or they re simply saying i m not going the to get it, so what if i get covid, i m going to survive it. what do you say to those people? what i say is we re about to reach 800,000 americans who have lost their lives and i m really glad you asked the question becaus
put it in place for a few days. let s see. we ll learn a lot more in the coming week. in terms of travel, again, if you can hold off making that decision, even a few days or by next week, i think you may be able to make a much more informed decision and that s what i ve been advising colleagues because i ve been getting a lot of those questions, especially for travel over the christmas holidays. arthel: how concerned are you? how concerned should we be, the global community. first of all, here in the united states i actually say this is not my biggest concern right now. my biggest concern is i m worried about another big delta wave hitting the country as we head towards into december, just like we saw last year. we still have too many unvaccinated americans. so people say hey, we ve already vaccinated 59% of the country and i say yeah, you ve only vaccinated 59% of the country, that means 41% is not. and even those who are