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School. once the numbers from today are reported, we will have reached 200 million americans with at least their first shot. 200 million americans with at least one shot. thats a major milestone. americans across the country are continuing to step up, do their part and get vaccinated. we are using every lever at our disposal to fight the virus including by ensuring state and local leaders have the tools and the resources they need to get more shots in arms and to respond to any outbreaks caused ...

Facilities. for people who received the johnson & johnson vaccine, we anticipate vaccine boosters will likely be needed. the j&j vaccine was not administered in the u.s. until march of 2021, and we expect more data on j&j in the coming weeks. with those data in hand, we will keep the public informed of the timely plan for j&j booster shots. i want to emphasize that this decision was not made lightly. it was made with careful consideration by the top medical and public health experts in the depar...

Citizens. mark: you know steven miller, delta variant has been known since december of last year. started in india. are you aware of anything that dr. fauci or the nih or hhs or nonexistent fda commissioner or this president has done to address the delta variant from a scientific or a vaccine perspective any time in the last say the months? donald trump grabbed the issue of virus operation warp speed, any kind of operation warp speed? if so, is it the greatest secret right now. >> yes, best kept...

Citizens. mark: you know steven miller, delta variant has been known since december of last year. started in india. are you aware of anything that dr. fauci or the nih or hhs or nonexistent fda commissioner or this president has done to address the delta variant from a scientific or a vaccine perspective any time in the last say the months? donald trump grabbed the issue of virus operation warp speed, any kind of operation warp speed? if so, is it the greatest secret right now. >> yes, best kept...

Day since the start of the pandemic with close to 7,000 new cases in a day. look at that. thats more than double the previous record, from back in january. this -- this is a for-real crisis situation. with hospitals running out of beds, and even when they have beds, they dont have staff for them. as we reported earlier-this week, the republican governor of mississippi, tate reeves, he requested that the federal government, please, send the usns comfort to the mississippi coast. that big-military...

January. this is a for real crisis situation. with hospitals running out of beds, and even when they have beds they dont have staff. as we reported earlier this week, the republican governor of mississippi, tate reeves, requested that the federal government sent a military hospital ship. fema denied that specific request in part because it could be problematic to send a floating hospital during the start of hurricane season. but the state health officer says that mississippi has also asked the f...

For everyone else, people who have healthy immune systems and are vaccinated, are people developing severe breakthrough infections. we know people will develop infections post vaccination, that happens, but are they also ending up in the hospital. and requiring severe serious care or dying, that will be a signal. havent seen that yet in the united states. we may follow the path of what is happening in israel. but that key ingredient is are the vaccines actually failing among the healthy vaccinat...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Aug. 12 announced that it will require all of ...

Big news out of hhs this hour. the secretary will be talking more about that. incoming new york governor kathy hochul laying the groundwork to clean house on day one after that state attorney generals report raised concerns not just about andrew cuomos behavior but his enablers and the culture inside the governors office. in her first live interview since cuomo announced her resignation, lieutenant governor, soon-to-be governor tells us how she plans to change that culture after shes sworn in. >...

From the carrots to the sticks phase of this vaccine vaccination phase here. this is going to be 25,000 workers, volunteers and contractors at the department of health and human services including the nih and the indian health service and the public health commissions core. and this is expected to go into effect by late september is what an hhs official is telling me. and listen to the reasoning behind this from the health and human services secretary. he said as president biden has said, were l...