critical moments. brand-new information from the biden administration to protect reproductive health data in the aftermath the overcurrenting of roe versus wade. between nightmares at airports to sky high firework prices, and sky high food prices as well as gas, traveling on this fourth of july. delays and cancellations at airports across the country are causing chaos and frustration for air travelers, this as airports are overwhelmed with a record number of passengers not seen since before the pandemic. nbc s george so list is at los angeles international airport. how is it looking for us? hi. happy fourth of july. right now things looking fairly smooth here at the airport. of course it is early. just checking flight aware which you can use to track flights. not many delays receipt now. 16 delays, about one cancellation. across the nation already we are seeing about 1,000 delays. when you compare that to everything that s occurred since friday we are looking at a ver
session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo
exposure but it became very clear quickly that you needed it for preexposure also. so right now there have been about 600,000 vaccines deployed. we will soon have 1.1 million. would we have liked to have done it more quickly? of course. you can always do better. but right now looking forward we have to concentrate all our efforts to make sure everyone who is at risk of getting infected with monkey pox has the ability to get a vaccine to protect them before the fact. are you concerned that it is going to spread beyond that community especially with school about to reopen, people traveling so much? can it be passed along in other ways? yes, it can. we already know that. you ve already shown the headlines on some of the news clips that you just showed.
community the services that they need. and that s ample accessibility to testing. therapy without any stumbling blocks of unnecessary paperwork and bureaucratic hoops that one has to go through. and enough vaccine not only to get people protected in a post exposure preventative but in preexposure for people clearly at risk even though they haven t had a documented exposure. the way you do that and do it expeditiously is to make sure you engage the community at every single step, top down, to the community doesn t work. that s the lesson we learned from hiv. you embrace the community and get them involved in all the processes you have to do. when you do that, you
it s an impressive medication, an impressive drug in terms of its ability to reduce severe illness by 90%. it would be given to people with moderate and mild infection to prevent them from further deterioration. so it s important to point out this is not for preexposure to the medicine. so it s not like a medicine you can take before you visit somebody or after you ve been exposed. only for those with mild and moderate symptoms. and it s basically right now being excluded from people with severe illness because the thinking is it may not have a big impact. the other consideration, it has to be given very early on in the course of the illness because during the virus replication phase, because that s how the medicine works, interfering with virus replication. so it s an exciting development. but for right now, in terms of its indication, it s more of a backstop for our overall strategy against covid as opposed to a primary approach, which is still heavily reliant