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Will give protection against the kind of disease that will put you in the hospital, or that could kill you. but pfizer says that their lab work also shows that a third dose, what some people call a booster dose, may give more robust protection. so, in other words, omicron is what scientists call an escape variant to a certain extent. it did manage to escape the vaccines, but this is much better news than what many people had feared. christine, laura? >> all right, thank you so much for that, eli...

Million people are fully vaccinated. you see the hesitancy, but we know in the last week or so there has been a rush to vaccinate. now, 60% of the american public is vaccinated. certainly not leading the world, but you can see the news of the omicron variant spurred people to go out there and finish the two courses of vaccines and the boosters. >> and get those boosters. that was the big news of yesterday. got to get the booster. all right, still ahead for you, the mother of daunte wright kill...

These issues of hesitancy and confidence arise. and theyre very community specific. culture specific. so, the solutions are ones that will be the governments themselves, civil society, actresses, football stars, who will be out there just as you heard in this country, promoting vaccines. describing the results of these vaccines and urging individuals to take responsibility for themselves and for the communities around them. but this is this fees we are now entering into, lawrence, where we try t...

Supply of vaccines. now that were meeting supply needs in many parts of the world thanks to the generosity of the american people and the donation of what will be at least 1.2 billion doses donated by the united states, now we are starting to see these issues of hesitancy and confidence arise, and theyre very community specific, culture specific. and so the solutions too are ones that it will be the governments themselves, civil society, actresses, football stars, you know, will be out there jus...

People just dont want to be told what to do. were more than a year into this pandemic, weve had vaccines for months and months. ive gotten my shots. ive gotten my booster. but i did that on my own volition. there are other people who just dont want to be told what to do. and i think that this is the issue that biden and democrats are running into. i mean, the environment is not favorable for democrats right now. if republicans are able to point to the environment, point to the economy, point to ...

Emphasis on delivery. so basically to turn doses into vaccinations, which, as you know, has been challenging in many corners of the united states and, frankly, in most democracies there have been these pockets of resistance. now, in developing countries, there are other issues as well. there are questions of whether we can reach the last mile, questions of voter -- excuse me -- citizen education and whether they know where to go and whether there are places, you know, again, that render those va...

Vaccine mandate. even if there are folks that are provaccine thats fantastic. still what is driving their poll so agenda, driving their opposition to this white house is the vaccine mandate. >> thats right. and this has been sort of the original sin of the pandemic. the number one at least based on my conversations with experts in looking at research, the number one sort of decider of whether or not you are going to take a vaccine still comes down to whether or not your political views align wit...

Resistance. in developing countries, there are other issues as well. questions of whether we can reach the last mile. questions of citizen education and whether they even know where to go and whether there are places that render those vaccines accessible to them. but youre right, that hesitancy is cropping up as a significant issue. because over the last year there hasnt been adequate supply in so many parts of the world, vaccine disinformation that we see and our own ecosystem has had a chance ...

World. >> reporter: the impacts of the travel bans will be devastating to south african tourism. this is a top destination in africa, and it lost 70% of our arrivals because of the pandemic. it was just beginning to recover before this latest travel ban. here, the government encouraging people to get vaccinated even though there is hesitancy. the reason is compelling because even though it seems to indicate this variant is more transmissible but less severe, nobody wants even a mild covid infect...

Sturgin surging across the country and all the provinces. the travel ban, flights leaving the country so everybody is scrambling to leave. even though most places coming to the u.s. and uk and most of europe they have to quarantine and all that. officials are encouraging people to try and get vaccinated even though there is still hesitancy about that. there are people who either for cultural reasons or because of misinformation and conspiracy theories, a lot of it actually from american right-wi...