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americans have now gotten at least one shot. sites like the one vice president harris visited today in las vegas, and more than 11% of the population is now fully vaccinated. late today, connecticut s governor said he expects to expand statewide eligibility to anyone aged 16 and up by the 5th of next month. other states taking similar steps as vaccine supply ramps up and federal help kicks in. this is happening as new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, continue to fall. and evidence grows, most notably, from a recent major study in israel, prevent the spread of infection, not just illness. we ve always believed that they re having that effect. we didn t know the full magnitude of that benefit. but all the incremental evidence coming out suggests that the impact on the reduction and transmission could be quite strong. and if that s the case, the vaccine creates what we call dead-end hosts. meaning, people will no longer be able to transmit the infection. so, m ....
Abundance of caution course to take, that s what they should do. the boosters, making sure that every team facility has the proper ventilation. and then if you have all of that in place, that 100% vaccination, and these young, healthy athletes almost none of whom have wound up in the hospital, let alone died among professional athletes, we have to recognize that fact as we roll our eyes about people that won t get vaccinate, young healthy professional athletes are not dying of covid at least to this point. those athletes should, if every proper precaution has been taken and now you get to the point where someone tests positive but they are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic there has to be a way to return to play quickly. think of what i have a concern. with the nfl, this is a what go ahead. i have a concern. go ahead. i think i misspoke. i think the nba shut down on march 11. anyway, at the outset of ....
The question is, how do we deal with this? do we constantly stop and smart and to my mind the players associations have to get together and they have to convince not 95%, but 100% of the players in all of the major sports to be fully vaccinated and beyond that, and this would be easy for the teams and the leagues to administer, they have the resources and they have a small group of people to deal with. if boosters are available and the consensus is that you need another booster and one after that, whatever is the state of the art, whatever is the abundance of caution course to take, that s what they should do. the boosters, making sure that every team facility has the proper ventilation. and then if you have all of that in place, that 100% vaccination, and these young, healthy athletes almost none of whom have wound up in the hospital, let alone died among professional athletes, we have to recognize that fact as we roll our eyes about people that won t get vaccinate, young healthy prof ....
Moderna is working on and getting close to approving a half dose as a booster shot of its own, and pfizer pushing and very close, we understand, for approval next month for emergency use of vaccines for kids as young as 5 years old. all of this at a time we re seeing a nationwide crackdown the on mandates and to try to compel people, order people to go get vaccinate. it s gotten to the point right now that a we have better than 5200 teachers in the new york metropolitan area stand to lose their jobs because they have not gotten vaccinated. that extends to other cities and counties across the country where this has been going on. so in the middle of the controversy over this is the realization that however unpopular it might be, maybe even illegal it might be, it has had the desired effect of lifting up the nation s vaccination rate and getting the ....
reporter: and it s a window of a virus that top government officials not was nearly under control. the study of 429 massachusetts residents infected in pr providence, massachusetts. 469 infected, the cdc calling it a pivotal discovery. but critically, the new data also underscoring the primary thrust of the administration s response. it s so darn important that everyone get vaccinate. reporter: among the participants in the study, zero died, five were hospitalized. making it clear that transmission is possible it remains the unvaccinated driving the surge in hospitalizations and deaths around the country. this is a much different variant than the one we dealt with previously. it s highly transmissible and it s causing a new wave in cases ....