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Havent cooked in yet? >> i think weve given up and thats a mistake. we focus tirelessly on booster dosing when we should focus on dosing and watching dr. sanford in philadelphia go into an african american community and increase rates that has to happen at the local level and completely possible but its not happening. >> wf to vaccinate ourselves as you point out, our way out of this. the white house has promised a pretty steadily monthly stream, 5 million rapid tests and 5 million pcr tests in ...

To either get their first shot or boosters up to an average of 2.2 million doses per day, and i believe the data is just over 600,000 of that are first-time doses. so eating into that unvaccinated portion of the population. are those numbers significant enough to make a difference? >> its encouraging. we still have tens of millions of people who have chosen not to vaccinate themselves or their children in this country. i just came off a week of being on service, we admitted five children to the ...

Booster shots. doctor, first to you, on governor abbots order, how will it impact overall vaccinate efforts in texas and other republican lead states. we have seen dates that are working so far. >> sure, our way out of the pan determine sick to vaccinate the unvaccinated. we can have booster dosing as will be recommended probably on this thursday and friday. we can give a third dose to people who already have got mrna vaccines. that will probably not have much of an impact on this pandemic. it w...

Kids. some are already back in class. everyone had hoped this year would be different of course, but covid is being hanging over classrooms. in atlanta more than 100 students on remote learning. >> and two students and two employees tested positive in the very first week of classes, head of the school tells the local website that it hopes to work with families to increase vaccination rates. >> we were at 3 million doses a day. if we had stayed on that pace, wed probably be at 80% immunity which ...

With the vaccination rate right now. >> we have seen a recent up tick in vaccinations. averaging 382,000 shots a day. thats a 35% increase over last weeks pace. it is the highest its been in three weeks. thats good news. this is all before new vaccine requirements or mandates. what do you attribute that to? >> maybe the delta variant has scared a critical percentage of people. maybe people like the grooverno governor points a finger at people who havent gotten a vaccine, but we were at 3 million...

Okay. so im not scared. by that. i think well start talking realistically about booster dosing. they are hospitalized and killed by the virus. instead of being 3% or 5.5%. then i think you can talk about boosters. we should not be talking at masks or boosters. we should be talking about which is i think you can fairly point a finger at those choosing not to vaccinate. you 25% to 30% of the population saying we dont want to get vaccinated. so we can do one of two things. we can say okay. people w...

Emergency room physician. let me start with you first. you just heard from the governor of alabama, kay ivy, who said it is time to start blaming unvaccinated folks who are, quote, letting us down. i know people dont like pointing fingers and laying blame in that sort of thing. what do you think of that message? >> thats exactly the right message. the reason this virus continues to spread, continues to cause people to suffer and be hospitalized and die and continues to mutate with the possibilit...