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Faith leaders or local doctors and nurses. weve done that because we recognize that to really get the message out you need a variety of messengers. were a big country. were a diverse country. we dont all trust the same people or listen to the same people. to get the information out to everyone you need a variety of messengers. thats why we built the covid-19 community which i and others have been engaging with over the last several months and has thousands of organizations and individuals around...

From overseas that had astrazeneca and then had pfizer vaccine after that and they did perfectly fine. as it is right now the cdc recommendations are to wait until the data comes out, dharna and at johnson & johnson. its not going to be next year, it probably will be a matter of a few weeks and we will get the respective booster dose accordingly. >> john: at one of questions dr. nash lot with the president was when can we get back to normal if we continue with vaccination the way we are? every d...

Vulnerable to getting infected through the delta wave. >> pfizer is ready to ask the fda to authorize use in children 5 to 11. pfizer ceo said they will be submitting data within days not weeks. the fda will then review the data. if they authorize it, they will determine whether it should be recommended for young children. >> if they approve it, we will be ready with our manufacturing to provide this new formulation of the vaccine because the vaccine that the kids will receive, which is 5 to 11,...

Down when you look at the national averages, but thats been driven by sharp declines in the south where the delta wave has swept through very aggressively. you see other parts of the country start to light up. the northeast also may be vulnerable to some form of a delta wave. this is going to sweep across the country in different increments. i think by thanksgiving its going to have run its course across the whole country, but its going to seep in a little bit later than it is in the south, but ...

Members of the nypd in the hospital, all unvaccinated. >> there is a connection between vaccination and hospitalization rates. take west virginia. lowest vaccination rate and the highest vaccination rate. >> we are going through the peak and it looks like were starting to turn down. >> reporter: the delta driven surge is still rolling around the country, but -- >> i think by thanksgiving it will have run the course across the whole country. it should decline on the back end of the delta wave and...

Its so contagious. so people who choose to go unvaccinated, theyre going to be very vulnerable to getting infected through this delta wave. so on the back end of this, if were add 90% levels of community across the population, which is probably where well be -- were probably at 80% right now -- youre not going to see the same level of death and disease because most people will be protected with some level of immunity. new york governor kathy hochul is preparing to address potential medical sta...

In certain parts of the country as the delta wave migrates to other parts like the midwest right now and the pacific northwest and perhaps the northeast. you are going to get down to prevalence levels where it will be persistent but its not going to be the kind of intense wave of infection were experiencing right now. the only thing that can change that trajectory is if we get a variant that pierces the immunity we have acquired through vaccination or prior infection. those variants will come al...

Vaccination, some will challenge their immunity by no choice but getting the infection. people who choose to go unvaccinated, theyre going to be revulnerable to getting infected through this delta wave. if were at 90% levels of immunity. youre not going to see the same level of death and dying because there will be some level of immunity. it will be there for a period of time. i dont think those with immunity from the infection, i think they eventually will be able to get vaccinated, but so far ...

>> thanks ta lot. thanks for having me. >> heres what the delta variant in the summer looked like. cases have been falling in the past few weeks, so is the virus over? >> in the south delta has really run its course. you see an extreme surge of delta run through the southern states. the northwest is experiencing a surge infection, the pacific northwest as well. the northeast, i dont think, is impervious to a surge of its own. this delta wave is going to hit different regions at different times, ...

Deliberations. sonia moghi, brooklyn. hello again, thank you so much for joining me, im fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with encouraging news on the coronavirus pandemic. the rate of cases is slowing. new infections are at the lowest rate the nation has seen since august 10th. the u.s. is averaging more than 122,000 new coronavirus infections a day, thats down more than 16% from last week. despite that positive trend, experts say the coronavirus may be here to stay. >> i think this del...