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When they were 10,000 a day, meant of 25-year-olds, and i love the 25-year-olds. i have a 23-year-old son so this is not a shot. they were thinking, whats the urgency? this thing is disappearing. so we had to message to people, hey, this is not gone away. you still need to do this. but at 10,000 cases a day, the urgency went away. so to some extent we were a victim of being able to drive down case counts. now people realize we have to put this behind us. >> lets hope it continues. thank you for ...

Based on areas with high or substantial case counts. i log on to the cdc website trying to figure out where my county stands in the data, and the website is so clunky, so poorly designed, so hard to find basic information. you could see there was a communications problem brewing, a disaster ahead. and i think really thats what this comes down to. the cdc has lots of information, lots of data, but doesnt know how to present it well to the public. so its really a communications and credibility cri...

Places with high cases. do average americans follow case quantities county by county? no. case counts are kinds of irrelevant at this point. if you are vaxxed, this virus isnt deadly anymore. your chance of catching covid is small. there is a 99% chance you wont die from it or even go to the hospital. out of 160 million americans who have been vaccinated. just a little over 1,000 have died. knees are cdc numbers. and most of them were older americans. one death is too much. but you have a 0.0007...

The fundamental answer is get vaccinated. protect yourself. protect everyone else. >> and to that point, thats one of the goals of your mandate there. get your workers that you did effective in june. its one of the reasons the president is going to speak about federal workers and were looking around. we can put a map up of people fully vaccinated around the country as a percent of population. it varies from place to place. and its no coincidence, im sure you would agree that we have rising case ...

Vaccine information has public health care workers left feeling stuck and that deep mistrust stoked by conservative news outlets and lawmakers and rampant misinformation online. local health officials are fighting for influence when the only sure strategy for beating back the virus is to get more people vaccinated. dr. white considers herself a target at a time many around the country have resigned or been fired during the pandemic. we are pleased to welcome to the broadcast the aforementioned d...

>> im sure it will come up in this select committee on the investigation. i want to switch gears to coronavirus. yesterday you extended your citys public emergency, but ended the public health emergency. what do those moves mean on how well is washington, d.c. responding to the pandemic threat right now? do you feel that you need additional help? >> well, al, i will tell you i couldnt be prouder of the response of our government, our department of health, homeland security. im even more proud ...

That were going to continue to see case counts become an issue. were hopeful that these times youre not going to see death had counts become an issue which is the most important element here. howie: liz, sort of a question of media framing. you can let such pro-vaccination voices at fox like sean hannity and steve doocy become the story or not. you can say facebook is part of the problem through misinformation or you can say democrats want to censor facebook and all this i think exacerbates the ...

Back mask-wearing guidance and mask-wearing requirements. and i do think that was a little bit premature. now, we see case counts going up. and in the interim, i think the administration has gotten a little sidetracked into different issues. they have a big agenda. but ultimately, they probably realize, now, that their fate in the 2022 midterms and looking way ahead to the 2024 presidential is all about getting checks in hands, and shots in arms. and they have gotten away from that, a little bit...

Fall, that we dont yearn for. that we went through last year. >> so, what do you think about that some and we should note that sean hannity, then, after he said that, went on a radio show and said he wasnt telling people they should get vaccinated. kind of backtracked on what he was saying there but what is your reaction to more prominent conservatives speaking out about this in favor of the vaccine? >> pamela, i think there is a couple of things going on. first of all, now that we are seeing th...

Pushback to l.a. countys policies were hearing there from my colleague. and then critics are asking this. what is the incentive for getting vak sin -- vaccinated if you still need to wear a mass snk the cdc says if youre vaccinated, can you return to prepandemic activities and not wear a mask. >> ive gone back to wearing a mask even though im vaccinated. im confident that my vaccines will protect me. i see the case counts tick up in my community. i dont want to test things. we see in it florida ...