medicine. he is one of those who developed this vaccine. dr. hotez, there has not been a lot of good news throughout this pandemic. so when i see a glimmer, i cling to it. i do want to talk to you about this vaccine. before we do, i want to give you an opportunity to respond to what we heard senator ron johnson saying a moment ago about why we do or don t need vaccines. well, i thought father what father james martin said, you know, it is hard to beat his eloquence. he was spot on and he is exactly right. i mean this is we know what the consequences of our, quote, natural immunity is. it brought us the deaths from tens of in the levels of tens of millions from smallpox in the 20th century until we eliminated it, eradicated it, and now this is certainly the same for covid-19. here is the number, alicia. 200,000 americans since june 1
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where you see the mainstreaming of this problem. in fact, i have a new book out called they want to kill americans, and it is about the militias and the terrorists within this group, within the republicans now who are now the base of the party. ted cruz is pandering to them. this means that this that the insurrectionists, the seditionists, the people who agree with them now have the entire political party acting as their advocates, and this will happen again. betsy, political reports the doj has declined to charge any of the capitol rioters with domestic terrorism. why aren t prosecutors pushing for those charges, betsy? the domestic terrorism statutes that exist in some other countries don t actually exist in the u.s. what we have here is a tool called a terrorism enhancement, which is something that comes into place after someone has been convicted, and it is a tool that s used to extend the
to the other side of this pandemic without that mandate? i don t see how. even the mandate is not going to be sufficient because i think this reflects the biden administration s full-throttle approach to try to use the full powers of the federal government to vaccinate the country, and it is important that he s successful in this. but even then, we are still going to need support from all of the governors to finish the rest of the job and the local and county governments to do this as well. so it is an important first step. it means keeping the workplace safe. i think that s the major driver for this. too, as i say, too many americans are losing their lives. i think what the biden administration is attempting to do is absolutely the right thing to do, and it is profoundly disappointing or even outrageous to know so many are conspiring against the federal government to help save american lives. dr. peter hotez, thank you for your time and thank you for bringing us a dose of good new
bought into what senator johnson has said and needlessly threw their lives away. they lost their lives because they were defiant of vaccines. they refused to get vaccinated. i will say the number again. 200,000 unvaccinated americans since june 1 have needlessly lost their lives because they refused covid-19 vaccines. this is why i get so emotional and so passionate about it, is because the stakes are so high. thousands of americans are losing their lives daily. we just lost 1,400 americans yesterday. almost all of those were unvaccinated. they did not have to die. this is continuing. we are at 835,000 deaths now in the u.s. we are going to reach 1 million. that s the extraordinary number, and it could keep on going from there. and that is set against the reality that there are people in other countries who wish they had access to these vaccines. so i want to talk about yours because it could be a game changer here. pfizer and moderna use similar mrna technology. how does the science