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Kate. joining me now for more on this is dr. peter hotez. dr. hotez, theres a new study out, and im in my emails seeing another study from the cdc getting at something that is really important, about who is most likely to be getting -- suffer from severe symptoms of covid if they are -- if they have one of these breakthrough cases. the one study i was looking at out of yale studied 1,000 hospitalized patients. it shows vaccinated people who get covid and suffer with severe symptoms tend to be ...

Transmissible, we have to get to 85 to 90% of the whole population vaccinated. weve got to find a way to reach those holdouts. >> i want to get more to what you hope to hear from the president in just a second. on this information on breakthrough studies and who is more likely -- if they have a breakthrough case of covid and who is most likely to suffer severe symptoms in the midst of it, im thinking, for anyone who questions still if vaccines arent worth it since, as ive heard some people say, ...

Severe breakthrough cases do happen, they tend to be in older, sicker people. >> reporter: misinformation, fear mongering, swirl around breakthrough infections. the vaccinated who still catch covid. the science shows the vaccine will not necessarily protect you, its not protecting many people. >> reporter: so not true. heres a fact. those very rare breakthrough cases who suffer severe symptoms tend to be older. 73 on average. and have multiple other conditions like diabetes or heart disease, acc...

To talk about. i that you for spending so much time with us. thank you so much for starting us off today. tim miller is sticking around. when we come back, breakthrough cases, booster shots, new variants. covid messaging is understandably confusing for some of us. the challenge for this white house tempering hysteria and stressing the need to push for more people to take the shot. the united states surgeon general will be our next guest. and the governor recall election in the state of californi...

Vaccination, including staff and teachers and everything like, that kids over the age of 12, need to be vaccinated. all the things have to be. dunn mask mandates, ventilation, distancing, all the things weve been talking about over the last few months. >> we thought this was over this kind of conversation, and yet here we, are once again, in the beginning of the school year. will never catch. break the sergeant general said, i want to read this to you, doctor azar, he said, its -- i see this to....

Incredibly important to gaining public trust, so for the biden administration actually put a fixed date on when the boosters would be available, probably would not be a wise idea at all. in terms of the boosters, right now what were seeing for the most part is that the vaccines are still effective at preventing the worst outcomes of covid-19. we may be creating more breakthrough infections but were still seeing decrease in hospitalizations and severe disease and death because of these boosters, ...

Which it very much seems to be in the initial signal, the question is how long does that protection really last? because if its a very short-term effect, essentially, yao just bought a few weeks of time or a few months, but if its a long-term effect, then theyre on to something, especially in that 60-plus subset that has been studied. so theres a lot to tease out, that i fear has not yet been. >> and dr., in some parts of the country, new cases are continuing to climb. you see it on your screen ...

Death. we have to remember, you look at those numbers, who is being hospitalized? who is dying? the vast majority of those people are unvaccinated. it is very, very rare for somebody who is vaccinated to have one of these very severe outcomes. so the vaccines are really holding up well. its just that were starting to see a lot of these, what were calling, breakthrough cases. people who are fully vaccinated getting infected. but theyre not getting severely ill. so we have to really think about wh...

Fading with time, especially after six months? >> certainly with the pfizer vaccine, i am. as i said, the data looks like its going down from over 90% to 40 to 50%. but before you panic, remember, the vast majority of those breakthrough cases are without symptoms or very mild symptoms. what were not really seeing, we dont think, are breakthrough hospitalizations. on the other hand, were not seeing a lot of data presented by the cdc. so for instance, it would be nice if we had a breakdown of all ...

Flags. and thats good news. the one thing that ill look at at the vrbpac meeting is if theres increase in myocarditis. myocarditis was a rare event that occurred in young individuals, really rare, 300 cases out of 20 million. it was more common after the second dose. so you want to get some confirmation that its not going to accelerate after the third dose. i dont think thats going to be the case. i think its going to be safe. but again, this is why we have a process and we work through things l...