infected by other variants, including delta, they are getting reinfected with omicron. if vaccinated might be protected, hopefully, are but the previous infection is not protecting them and i m really worried about what this means especially for our southern states you mentioned southern states where the vaccination rate is low. the white house is touting vaccination rates are up a bit. if you look the seven-day average of people initiating a shot is up 42% from a month ago, 1.78 million as of monday. encouraging going from monday. look at the vaccination map, you re right. eight states where less than 50% of the population is vaccinated. the white house believes it has made significant progress that 5 million of the children ages 5 through 11 newly eligible have been vaccinated. 28 million is the total of that group so that s shy of 20% and it s been close to five weeks since that s been eligible. is that a good number, or do you wish it were significantly higher? of course i do w
forward, but the president had relatively modest travel restrictions and says let s learn more. he was pretty adamant. we re not going back to lockdowns or the early covid restrictions. yeah. i think that at this point he s also just bowing to the reality of where the country is. like, yes, he can use his bully pulpit to try to get states to say maybe you can do more mask mandates but people in this country are very tired in the second pandemic year and people will not go along with all of this and what we ve seen with the coronavirus is you can tell people what you want them to do, but can you not make people get vaccinated. you can try but you can t make them wear masks and when people push back there are health implications for everyone. to that point, i want to show our viewers on the screen. this is the vaccination map of the united states. 55 million americans over the age of 12 have not received a vaccine shot and ten of the states have less than 50% of
numbers. the case timeline. this is encouraging in t. sunday numbers are shy of 4,000 new infections reported sunday. averaging below 12,000. that is eight progress especially when you look at the horrific winter peak. if you look at the vaccination map, this is the population fully vaccinated. 60 % in may. places like missouri at 38 %. alabama, mississippi, 22, 29. some of the states are well behind. 16 states have met the president s goal. get 70% of your sitcitizens at least one shot. 16 states. plus the district of columbia. to get the other states there you have to have 848,000 first shots a way. we re well behind that. let s bring in to share his expertise, dr. jonathan rider, professor of medicine and surgery at george washington
emergency use authorization for the moderna vaccine of 12 to 17-year-olds. as a parent of an almost 10-year-old i m anxious to hear the results of these meetings. a lot of parents are. walking through the other metrics as we talk about it right now, especially this vaccination map, if you look at this right now, this is 13 states have already met the president s goal by july 4th of having 70% of their population, at least partially vaccinated by july 4th. maine is at 76%. vermont at 83%. 47, 45, 46, well behind other parts of the country. the administration has tried everything. some states using lotteries, the administration has said we ll come to your office. listen to the surgeon general. he says this is critically important, used to be here are incentives, now he says if you don t have a vaccine you should be scared. listen. the news about the delta variant is evidence of really why it s so important for us to get vaccinated as soon as possible.