Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
so those particular moments could be considered to be transmission events. you d be more likely to see transmission of covid under those circumstances. that was the argument they used. i think it took a lot of people by surprise because it didn t have anything to do with whether or not djokovic was right in thinking he could enter the country with a vaccine exemption as was argued in the first place. the whole argument initially centered on the fact he thought he could get in here exempted from being vaccinated because he had recently had covid-19. his lawyers tried to argue that the government s case here was irrational, illogical. they argued that really and based upon what we ve seen over the last two days with some substances that locking him up, threatening to deport him, not allowing him to play in the australian open, these things are more likely to fire up the anti-vaccine community here. and they argued that not
unless most of the world is effectively vaccinated. what that means is that as long as we continue to have these transmission events, the risk of new variants will continue to be there. maybe there needs to be a bit more co ordination between countries in 2022 so that vaccine hoarding does not take place. obviously does not matter if 100% of one country is vaccinated if only 5% of africa is vaccinated, then it does not matter. they will bring the virus over to that country. absolutely. a more nuanced vaccination strategy if now some of the high income countries are moving towards a three dose schedule, that means that a three dose schedule should be there all around the world. especially in populations where initially inactivated vaccines were delivered. so some of these nuances need to be kept in mind
what that means is that as long as we continue to have these transmission events, the risk of new variants will continue to be there. maybe there needs to be a bit more co ordination between countries in 2022 so that vaccine hoarding does not take place. obviously does not matter if 100% of one country is vaccinated if only 5% of africa is vaccinated, then it does not matter. they will bring the virus over to that country. absolutely. a more nuanced vaccination strategy if now some of the high income countries are moving towards a three dose schedule, that means that a three dose schedule should be there all around the world. especially in populations where initially inactivated vaccines were delivered. so some of these nuances need to be kept in mind because not only will history judge us poorly as a global community if there are major areas where we do not have