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Was talking to a member of congress the other day who said his entire presidency is about covid. hes already facing a resurging republican party who thinks theyll win the house in 2022 with good reason. hes quickly seeing obviously -- its obviously not the end of his presidency, but this next -- hes facing that real possibility that republicans are going to take the house, schools are becoming less and less certain what the climate is going to look like. i think thats a huge problem for him. >> ...

An Israeli doctor says that the majority of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at his hospital are fully vaccinated and ...

Came to d.c. with no plan or message besides the terrible singing we had to disturbingly listen to but no message or no plan and they turned into a super spreader event that did more to undercut the narrative about vaccines weve seen from the biden administration because the cdc was originally telling us you could not carry covered if you are vaccinated and now its because of these folks exhibit a about getting breakthrough cases and not the cdc director think you can both get covered and spread...

What ive been doing for 20 years and my emergency room in my opportunity for 20 years is help people. >> people might think about breakthrough cases and think why should i get the vaccine. help set those folks straight. what is your message to those folks who say that? >> yeah, i mean your chance of getting hospitalized if you had the vaccine is 1 in 1 though thousand compared to those who are not vaccinated. you know, your chance of actually getting very sick from covid is so incredibly low whe...

Thats killing us, its ignorance. so im curious, since youre a part of the federal government, what is the role for the federal government to play in this debate that shouldnt even really be a debate? >> well, the cdc has established that we should wear masks. in new york city, the mayor has come out for mandatory screening of vaccine cards or a 72-hour negative test, covid test. so this is practical measures. i agree with the doctor. there are far too many breakthrough cases, so people that are ...

Ago, it was biden, other top democrats, media mob, they were declaring victory in the fight against covid-19. they promised that life could finally now return to normal. they said it.se i promise. take a look. >> so if we can get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated, by, lets say, the end of the second beginning of the third quarter by the time we get into mid-fall of 2021, we could be approaching some level of normality. >> what does 70% mean? it means that we can now return...

Draconian lockdowns. now remember, just a few weeks ago, it was biden, other top democrats, media mob, they were declaring victory in the fight against covid-19. they promised that life could finally now return to normal. they said it. i promise. take a look. >> so if we can get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated, by, lets say, the end of the second, beginning of the third quarter, by the time we get into mid-fall of 2021, we could be approaching some level of normality. >>...

Overwhelmed hospitals. thats not what is happening today. >> its a little contradictory to hear from the white house that the vaccine works. 191 million in the country have gotten at least the first shot. that settles down to 0.03% of breakthrough cases as we call them. those who have gotten covid after getting the vaccination. they do not get as sick as you would if you didnt have the vaccine but regarding the masks, the mask mandate particularly for kids going back to school and ron desantis i...

Different ways, in terms of breakthrough cases and in terms of children. so lets talk about breakthrough cases. my sense is that the cdc stopped monitoring these cases as a number, in the aggregate, in may. and theres been some criticism that that gives us not the best eyes on the virus right now. do you think that was a mistake? do i have it wrong? and are you monitoring breakthrough cases now? >> thank you so much for that. let me clarify. we have self-reporting of people who are coming into t...

Regardless of symptoms. that is the best epidemiological way to follow breakthrough cases. so we are doing both self reporting, passive reporting. thats where we stopped collecting the outpatient data. more importantly, we are doing cohort reporting and that is the best way to follow and understand both the numerator and the denominator, just as you note. >> okay. so you have a cohort, a large cohort that is like a panel survey that they do public opinion that you feel is statistically represent...