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Around seventy-five percent of physicians have seen an increase in COVID cases among children, mostly due to the Delta variant.

Good idea of how theyre going to go ahead of time. im not so sure on this one. there is strong feelings on both sides either to boost or not to boost. let me lay out the four big questions i think they will be dealing with. keep in mind, jim, this is an advisory committee meeting, so they want to look at basically is immunity waning? are people who are vaccinated longer ago, do they have less immunity than those vaccinated more recently. people may test positive, but how symptomatic are they? ho...

I agree there is a health disparity and i wish we could do more to take care of that from the level of the federal government. our study dipwas only looking a what was occurring with the patients. >> as it relates to those who are vaccinated and unvaccinated, we know that people who contract maybe whats called one of these breakthrough cases of covid after being vaccinated, that their likelihood of the severity of long covid is diminished as related to those who are unvaccinated. >> thats true, ...

In january had a more than twofold increased risk for breakthrough infections versus those vaccinated in april. >> but the question is not about how the vaccines are doing today or last month. its really how are they going to do this winter. >> reporter: the president of moderna telling nbc news their vaccine also shows waning protection against infection over time >> your data shows protection is dipping, but americans who are fully vaccinated are still protected from hospitalization. so why ar...

One thing. but people are five times more likely to spread the disease if theyre unvaccinated. i just think thats -- thats unacceptable. so i have the personal experience of absolutely believing that the vaccine is a life-saver. this pandemic would be largely over. what were having -- what were having now is a distinct, separate pandemic from the one we had last year. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the pandemic for the vaccinated is over, except for these breakthrough cases which end up...

Idiots. >> speaking of false claims about it, former supporters of president trump have plans to be back in washington for a rally defending the insurrectionists. how the capitol police are preparing for that. and in just a few minutes, dr. anthony fauci joins the conversation. were going to talk about vaccine mandates, what booster shots might mean for the fight against covid. were getting ours today. and how the new school year is going with many kids now back in the classroom for the first ti...

Virus spread because if theres just one person inspired by these politicians not to get the vaccine or not to mask, here you go. joining us now, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thank you so much for being with us. a lot to get to. we want to talk about children and the start of school. i just want to pull back a little bit about where this virus could go. im hearing anecdotedly about b...

Vaccine shot. and theres no understanding or acceptance of that. >> dr. rand paul had covid and he talked about t cell antibodies the cleveland clinic is going to study it further. but they had had results -- initial results that they thought if you had it, you dont need any vaccine but they are encouraging people to get vaccines but they are studying it further. but the initial results were very impressive. so again, following the science. and then you have the issue, we now have breakthrough c...

>> dr. rand paul had covid and he talked about t cell antibodies the cleveland clinico is going to study it further. but they had had results -- initial results that they thought if you had it, you dont need any vaccine but they are encouraging people to get vaccines but they are studying it further. but the initial results were very impressive.e. so again, following the science. and then you have the issue, we now have breakthrough cases. so wise and the more emphasis -- and im not a doctor -- ...

There is a bit of history to work with here. theres a bit of reality to work with here. there are people who are alive because of the vaccine. there are people who are alive who have gotten breakthrough cases that arent so bad because of the vaccine. and im sorry to be -- to be coarse about this, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dead because they did not take the vaccine. the science is playing out before our eyes. >> right. a couple of things about what the governor said. f...