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A 35-year-old remains at long-term acute care hospital after battling COVID-19 since July.

Service? >> obviously, we have the military ability to help get these folks out prior to all of this going to pieces so that the fundamental error that they made so obviously we have the wherewithal to be able to protect those folks at the outset but they have chosen not to do it. i think they should do whatever they can to help our fellow citizens but this has been a choice that they made and thats why i think we are likely not to see a perfect outcome here. >> sean: now that the cdc acknowledg...

Option you see? military training and military service? >> obviously, we have the military ability to help get these folks out prior to all of this going to pieces so that the fundamental error that they made so obviously we have the wherewithal to be able to protect those folks at the outset but they have chosen not to do it. i think they should do whatever they can to help our fellow citizens but this has been a choice that they made and thats why i think we are likely not to see a perfect out...

Sen. Dan McConchie of Lake Zurich said in a statement Saturday that he was vaccinated against the virus this spring, and he urged others to be vaccinated.

Was the tragic upshot. andrea? >> that is just so awful, sam. thank you very much. the delta variant is spreading like wildfire in mississippi. one of the least vaccinated states in the nation. hospital workers are exhausted, angry and in tears amid a fourth covid wave as the delta variant continues to spread. roger wicker, my apologies -- the senator is one of those. he was vaccinated and he has a breakthrough case. nbc news correspondent ellison barber join us. they changed their minds after g...

Only tested once every two weeks. that was part of the in-send tent for players to get vacc vaccinated. but justin pugh is test fighting the policies after becoming a breakthrough case. he said that we need daily testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. i was vaccinated and still got covid. as of now they are tested every 14 days and that is not enough. who knows how long i walked around the building with it or whoever i got it from. fix this as soon as possible. cardinals currently have ...

Now, we want to do the boosters now to prevent that. you use the hockey analogy. you want to skate where the puck is going to be, not where the puck is. what they said is true. right at this moment the protection against hospitalization and death is still very high, but given the ominous signs of the protection diminishing for infection and clinical disease, we want to make sure were not all of a sudden in trouble and then decide were going to do something about it, as opposed to anticipating th...

>> thats the explanation. >> thank you for clarifying it obviously. its just that people throw this stuff in my face all the time about why do you trust this advice when this advice seems to fight it? thats why i put it to you. thank you for clarifying. one other quick thing. unfortunately governor abbott catches covid, breakthrough case. hes vaccinated, may have gotten the regeneron. lets leave the regeneron thing to the side. people are going to say why cant everybody get it? separate issue fo...

Other countries. there are mix-and-match studies for astrazeneca vaccine, which is similar to j&j. and mixing that and pfizer. germany, the uk, allow this mix-and-match approach. they even recommend it. it looks like you have an even better immune response, with that approach. i think there is enough, at this point, to say people who got the one-dose johnson & johnson vaccine should at least consider getting a booster. i dont need federal health officials to say we recommend it. i just want them...

Necessary. and start with the people who are the furthest away from their original immunization. and about september 20th begin to offer to those folks the chance to get a third dose. of course, fda has to weigh in on this. the cdc and their advisory committee will need to weigh in on this. all those things have to take place over the next month. having looked at the data, along with my colleagues like the surgeon general you just had a clip from, were all in agreement that its time to act. >> d...