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Going to design a test, they had access to the virus samples, so they would design a test. that would manufacture it as small scale and deploy to it the public health labs. there is 100 public health labs in this country, each capable of doing about 100 tests a day. thats 10,000 tests a day. thats nowhere what was needed. we needed to get the commercial manufacturers engaged from the outset. someone from early january inside the administration needed to say we need more testing and needed to get...

December, only about 30% of people in this country were willing to take a vaccine. now were at over 75% of people who have received at least one dose. so, clearly, there has been progress made in addressing peoples questions. addressing hesitancy or resistance. whatever it may be. and we have taken a range of steps not just the announcement made just last week about mandates prior to that part of that has been relying on local messengers. part of that has been making the vaccine broadly accessib...

Strict no-mask policy here. >> so they had to leave. >> i spent my money on this business. ive put my blood, sweat, and tears in this business. and i dont want any masks in here. >> in florida, the mask wearing governor just announced his new surgeon general. >> we feel joe is just the right guy for the job. >> last week, he wrote that public mask wearing has had, at best, a modest effect on viral transmission. not true. studies show the effect is significant. meantime, the nations average daily...

I think with time we will reach a lower plateau. there are already signs of that happening. i think there are people resistant to get vaccinated. i dont think seriously that is going to change much. i think we are going to be living because of some peoples hesitancy to take vaccines at a plateau, at a base of perhaps a few hundred -- not a few -- hundreds of people, maybe even a thousand dying on a daily basis for the foreseeable future. by that i mean a year or two. >> how concerned are you, to...

Viral transmission. not true. studies show the effect is significant. meantime, the nations average daily death toll just topped 2,000 lives lost a day. hasnt been that high in more than six months. >> we are going to be living, because of some peoples hesitancy to take vaccines, at a plateau, hundreds of people, maybe even a thousand, dieing on a daily basis for the foreseeable future. and by that i mean a year or two. >> reporter: now, jake, during that cdc meeting you just mentioned, we heard...

Directly. its a large term, large population of people that work in hospitals. i think that if you start to say, well, out of the people who interact with patients, what percentage of them are vaccinated, its much higher than health care worker hesitancy overall. >> the u.s. seems to be facing a rather uniquely american problem. we have lots of vaccine supply and not enough vaccine demand because of all the concerns and skepticism about the vaccines. for most of the rest of the world, the dynami...

For. thats what theyre calling this twindemic. >> i assume the number one thing people can do is go get their flu shots. what can people do to protect themselves? >> when you talk about flu overall, you get millions of people who get diagnosed with flu in any given year, up to 800,000 hospitalizations and up to 61,000 people dying. much of that can be sort of mitigated by the vaccine, which is around. one thing i want to show you as much as we talk about the vaccine and hesitancy around covid, t...

Worried about natural gas prices in west virginia and 3 1/2 trillion dollar of remaking the american economy in the next ten years. hes worried about inflation. arent most of these proposals in the human infrastructure package the biden administration is proposing, wouldnt those help struggling west virginians? >> reporter: yes. there are a whole lot of proposals in there on education, child care, health care subsidies that would benefit his very poor state. but hes raising concerns that many in...

>> lets talk about the parental hesitancy. this is from a kaiser foundation poll. the kaiser family foundation. when you are going to get your kids vaccinated? put up a poll. right away, only a quarter. 26%. wait and see, 40%. only if required, definitely not. 9% and 25%. not good numbers. actually not as good as we saw even early on with the vaccine during trumpdom. what does this mean to you? >> well that, is going to be hard to get these children vaccinated. just as hard as adults. the fact i...

Vaccine on 2300 or so children. 5 to 11 years old. they got, as you point out, one third of the dose that is being given to adults at higher doses. they had more fever and transitory side effects. but this seemed to produce a good antibody response. they should definitely go with it. because as you point out, we had 225,000 kids with covid. its a serious issue among children. and the best way to protect them is with this vaccine. there is parental hesitancy. >> lets talk about the parental hesit...