to be hospitalized. the biden administration is expected to suggest for most adults a third dose when 30% of the eligible u.s. population still refuses to get the shot, kids under 12 still cannot get them. should boosters still be taught priority as opposed to having the vaccine okayed for kids under 12 and 30% of the country still won t get vaccinated? i think the other things you re mentioning are a bigger priority. and i know there s a lot of discussion about this back and forth. i ve talked to a lot of people about this, and people have strong views on this. the fact of the matter is 99% of the people who are in the hospital with covid are unvaccinated. most of the transmission that s occurring in this country are because of the unvaccinated. we don t even have good data to show that the vaccine is actually waning in terms of its effectiveness. hopefully the cdc will share some of this data because this keeps happening, jake, where these policy decisions are getting floated out
president ghani today, offering support. biden s also warning the taliban that any action taken against u.s. personnel during this mission will be met with a swift and strong response. and then, on haiti, biden saying that he s saddened by the situation there and he s authorized an immediate u.s. response. linsey? alex, thank you. be sure to watch this week tomorrow morning. jonathan karl goes one-on-one with secretary of state antony pl blinken about the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan as the taliban rapidly gains control. and also tonight, we re learning the biden administration is reportedly now planning for the possibility that more americans will need booster shots. the news comes as covid cases surge. new infections up more than 900% just since mid-june. but vaccinations are also on the rise. the white house reporting today nearly a million shots administered in one day. most of the 83,000 now hospitalized with covid are unvaccinated. and unlike previous surges, more child
explain them. yeah, so, they made the sort of distinction. they said, we re looking at moderate or severely immunocompromised people. and they basically based this on the evidence of what they were seeing which is sort of twofold. one, you sort of mentioned here already, not only was there evidence that the protection, the immunity was lower in someone who had a weakened immune system and was vaccinated but also as a result, they got sicker as well. so, 485 times more likely to end up in the hospital but i can show you what that meant for hospitalizations overall. we know that most of the people, victor, in the hospital with covid are unvaccinated. but for people who are in the hospital with breakthrough infections, a large percentage of them were also immunocompromised. so, that was, i think, what sort of got this discussion going some time ago. sort of the why of things. the who, to your question, and we can i think we may have the graphic to show you. sanjay, i have to interru
particularly over 99% of the people that are dying from covid are unvaccinated, which implies given the rollout of vaccinations throughout the country it s 300 times as likely to die of covid if you re unvaccinated, once you have that statistic in your mind, it s impossible not to require vaccinations. and we haven t seen an impact one way or another. it s too early to tell, but it s also irrelevant because once we knew or once i could do the math that you re 300 times less likely to die if you ve been vaccinated, there was no choice but to require it. 300 times less likely to die. scott kirby, thank you so much for joining us and a statistic i like to remember, when we were in the worst moments of covid and things were shut down, the government came to the aid of businesses, big and small, across this country to the tune of trillions of dollars. now the government is asking businesses to try to help our country get safe. scott kirby and united, they re
you ve been putting out the message, they just haven t been following. you said 38% vaccination rate puts you 43rd in the united states. over the past week your state is number one in new vaccinations per capita. so hopefully you ve got a 14% jump from the lottery. the vaccine rate is now double what it was two weeks ago, which shows fear may be better than even a wish and a dream on improving your finances. but you said something that i haven t heard before. you believe 10% of the hospitalizations are breakthrough cases? in louisiana, 90% of the people in the hospital with covid are unvaccinated. so that means 10% are vaccinated? yeah. that s right. that s high. it is high. but i will tell you a lot of that, i believe, has to do with