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The death of the nation's first Black secretary of state highlights the continued risk to many Americans until more of the population is immunized.

The death of the nation's first Black secretary of state highlights the continued risk to many Americans until more of the population is immunized.

The death of the nation's first Black secretary of state highlights the continued risk to many Americans until more of the population is immunized.

Determination and his own brilliance and potential goodness and greatness as well. he succeeded. its quite remarkable career given where he came from and given the fact that he is an african—american with the wrong coloured skin and grew up at a time of the most intense racial prejudice in the united states. jack straw, prejudice in the united states. jack straw. thank _ prejudice in the united states. jack straw, thank you so much forjoining us. jack straw there, former british foreign secret...

Pentagon or whether it was at the department of state that sense of his to go to the ground level of troops and staff members to know what they were thinking and seeing as a mark of his own leadership to inform his leadership but also to validate the work of those who were serving their country in positions less than his own. and that is something that certainly has affected many of the people who have served him and part of why theres a great affinity and admiration for him and he has many peop...

Public service, people are also now aware he had a breakthrough case of covid in addition to cancer and vulnerabilities. because he was fully vaccinated and got covid, that took his life, any concerns about how that will be interpreted publicly or how does that affect the message from the white house about the importance of vaccinations? >> as people saw in the statement issued by the presidents very personal statement about his personal relationship, obviously a heartbreaking tragedy for the co...

I would remind people the vaccine was never intended and never shown to be 100% effective. it is not a force field put around people. the cdc reports a total of 7,000 deaths among those who have been fully vaccinated. it is unclear if he got a booster. we know he had an immunocompromised state. he is multiple myeloma and a second cancer on top of that in the past. and while we understood he had done well from that it is an immunocompromised state. >> dana: so that would explain perhaps why there...

Medical history. i mean, it really places him at a significant higher risk of covid-19 complications should he experience a breakthrough case. again, if youre listening to this and you have not been not vaccinated and you are in a group that is vulnerable or youre in a group thats generally not vulnerable, vaccination is obviously still the way to go here. >> josh letterman, dr. natalie azar, thanks to both you guys. really appreciate it. up next, the latest on a vaccine showdown in chicago. t...

Treatment for myeloma weakens the immune systems response. josh lederman is outside walter reed medical center where the general was treated and msnbc medical contributor dr. natalie azar, welcome both. josh, what do we know about the treatment the general underwent there at walter reed? >> the family of colin powell, yasmin, is praising the caring treatment that he got here at walter reed national military medical center. but we dont really know a whole lot about how the last few days of his li...

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