contagious, it will eventually infect most of the people unvaccinated. it s unfortunate in the red states you see higher infection rates but on the back end of the surge, most americans will have acquired immunity to the virus through natural infoection or vaccination. the immunity acquired through infection, those banking on the immunity by infection will eventually need to get vaccinated to sustain the immunity. it s unfortunate you re seeing sharp diverging in vaccination rates across the country. some of it is cultural, some political. so there are states that are going to be more heavily affected. you see the same thing with childhood immunizations. here in connecticut where i live, the mmr vaccine, 98% of kids get vaccinated with that but overall the coverage is 90 to 94% from year to year. there are a lot of states below 94%. you see variance in the uptick of vaccines and often varies across states.
macho enough they will go against the covid virus and not have any vaccination protection and, you know, maybe it makes them feel brave or, you know, able to do something that others can t do. that s not what we should be doing here. we should be trying to limit this virus with all the tools that we have at our disposal. i want to play this and see if you remember. this is from lebron james, watch this. predicated to my family, you know, for the majority for 99.9% of that. so it s about the health and safety of my family and that s what it came down to. me being available to my teammates on the floor is me taking care of my body. do you mind me asking if you re confirming you did get the vaccine? it s not a big deal. so listen, we haven t heard
wave of the infection and perhaps by thanksgiving we may transition into a better face of the phase of the virus. are you confident a new variant won t emerge? no, this are new variants. there are 12 different variants of the delta strain. you know, it is doing to be the case you ll get variants that emerge that partially escape the immunity offeredvaccines. we find a variant that completely evades the immunity we acquired through vaccination or infection, i think that s less likely. you don t know what you don t know. it could happen. it more likely this virus will slowly drift over time and you ll get a new variant within that delta linage that will escape. we have to do that for a period of time. the transition from the pandemic phase from this virus at least here in the united states isn t going to be a sort of bright
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