Do you get to those folks still refusing to be vaccinated . What do we expect to hear from the President Today . Reporter jim, as you say, it is good news but it is not good enough to slow down the Delta Variant. Everything this administration wants to accomplish in terms of Public Health and economically and politically depending on getting this pandemic under control and the administration has hit a wall in terms of resistance both fueled by politics in some the red State And Concern among some members of other communities in big cities who are reluctant to get vaccinated. Well hear from the President Today to talk about efforts to vaccinated the rest of the world. 110 Million doses shipped overseas and looking to the private sector to galvanize Vaccine Requirements or very strong pushes to employees and to customers, were expecting to get some news from new York City mayor de blasio about requiring proof of vaccination to participate in some activities. The administration last week
The worst of it. but you noted the u.s. is roughly at the same point today in terms of deaths daily and new infections as we were last summer when with the big difference was there was no vaccine. what does that tell us? there was no vaccine and we had a fully susceptible population. now we have a population where half of americans have received the vaccine and many have been already effected which provided some level of immunity. the big difference is one, the delta variant. that is not the virus that was circulating last summer. and our behavior has changed. we are much looser about how we deal with. this but to get to the ron desantis thing, what he has done is in ex plickable. you have two weapons in the war, one the vaccine, and two for people for example who are too young or who have cancer or on chemotherapy or biological agents for their diseases mask.
Vaccine. jonas sox vaccine and when that rolled out in 1955, we couldn t wait to get the vaccine. there were none of the forces in now were in play then. it is a much more cynical and litigious and conspiracy laden society that we have now. but the end result is that the fight is not just against the virus, which was true against polio, the fight is against ourselves. the worst parts of ourselves and that makes this much, much harder. my father told stories of his mom not letting him go to pools because of polio as well. given the wide availability of vaccines, available, free and effective, far more than some vaccines we think about, this is, it is a pandemic not just of the unvaccinated but the willfully unvaccinated because they have the option to be. do you believe there should be more man dates? is that the answer. i think it is the only answer at this point. i think we solved the problem of
Start remote because of quarantines. well it is hard to know when it is we re going to have a vaccine available for children less than 12. but we specertainly need it. and we need it before late fall and heading into winter. we have the delta variant and two is winter which is allowing for more easy spread of this virus and three, i think most importantly you re going to have a relatively unvaccinated or undervaccinated group less than 12 and basically an undervaccinated group between 12 and 17 and only about 35% in the age group who can be vaccinated have been vaccinated. let me ask you about this. because we do have other countries that have faced the delta variant before us. and i don t want to over or underestimate, but if you look at u.k., they have tailed off. can we learn anything from that. is that something that we might be able to expect here as well?