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Have been unvaccinated. >> theres a little bit of a denominator problem that i think everyone is wrestling with right now in two 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 breakthrough 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 mo...

Question. if you are asymptomatic and you have a breakthrough infection, are you able to pass the virus to others? we have partial data from israel here. the israeli ministry of health, for example, has said that 80% of their breakthrough cases, they -- the individuals who are vaccinated and have a breakthrough case transmit to no one else in a public setting. 10% transmit to only one other person. and so, i think we need a lot more data, like that, here in the u.s. and i hope that the cdc is ve...

Under 50 now, which is a huge difference from our previous surges in which most of our patients were over 50 years old. when you start to get into the over 50 category, especially the over 80 category is where we see most of our breakthrough cases. people who dont have a remember noal immune system, people on chemtherapy and that is our breakthrough cases. >> when you see the breakthrough patient cases and, look, maybe you dont want to go this far, those folks were among the first vaccinated. is...

Unvaccinated. but were seeing more vaccinated people getting coronavirus? >> yes, and if i broaden it out florida has a very high percentage of people that are elderly. one in five are over the age of 65. that was a very early effort, but what we have seen since then is a lot of people choosing not to get vaccinated in parts of the country where you have a 70% vaccination rate. in florida a 40% rate so there is a real big push for those to get vaccinated. just at this hospital talking broadly ab...

Were not necessarily seeing that. breakthroughs are far more tied to the individual and not necessarily or at least right now tied to just longevity of the vaccine. so, if im 83, 93 years old, i dont know if i was ever going to respond to that vaccine. we dont have enough studies to say that if we gave a booster in that patient population that they would respond. our only protection for them is vaccinating everybody else. we know these patients dont respond to vaccines and whether boosters would...

Mandate. newly hired workers will have to show proof of vaccinations before working. those who do not will not begin working. theres a sharp divide between democrats and republicans. in a new monmouth university poll taken before the announced guidelines last week, 52% said they would support the safety measures. while democrats were overwhelmingly in support of it, 85%, 73% of republicans said they wasnt. 63% said they were vaccinated. 31% of the republicans say theyre still not likely to ever ...

Hospitalizations, and deaths. >> so, joe, thats what were underlining here, we hear the headlines of breakthrough cases and there are, people vaccinated and getting covid-19, but as rochelle walensky pointed out there, if you get it and youre vaccinated, most of the time youre asymptomatic but certainly in almost all cases dont get sick enough to be in the hospital or die. we were talking earlier about senator lindsey graham who announced yesterday he did get covid-19 despite hes been vaccinated...

So clearly cases matter, no matter the severity. give us the numbers. according to new research from kaiser family foundation, january to july the rate of breakthrough cases, again, vaccinated who get sick, of any kind reported to states is below 1%. raises a question for me, maybe for you, is the reporting sufficient? how does it work? how many people are getting these viruses dont know they have it? and yet the information that matters most is the messaging that removes hesitancy about the vax...

The most reliable source is your local doctor. get your source of information from a medical professional that you trust and thats what we urge people to do. >> dana: as you mentioned the hospitalizations in arkansas saw the biggest increase yesterday since march of 2020. has the confusion from the cdc, they are being roundly criticized from all sides. has that frustrated your efforts in arkansas? >> well sure. there has been some inconsistency and thats been challenging because people point to ...

Kayleigh good to see you. more information on breakthrough cases, fully vaccinated people the testing positive for covid-19 along with answers surrounding therapeutics and treatments but at that point if he got vaccinated and get the virus, what do you do then? we are joined by fox news medical contributor with family medicine specialist dr. george friede. you went to harvard medical school? dr. saphier? d >> i admire her, we are both on the front line so it is so honored to be on the show tonig...