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Had about hhs possessing a legal authority for some of these mandates that have been issued? >> youre talking to a former state attorney general. profess over health and welfare finishes for the most part. so what the government can do requires the state to work with us. so what we want to do is work with the states and that is what president bidens call has always been. work with the states. partner with them, never leave them behind, and we will continue to do that where we can as president bi...

Vaccinated. they dont want the white house to play in science, they do have to communicate in science. you see that every day in the press briefing and im sure the president will get questions about it today even though hes scheduled to talk about drug pricing. >> monica alba is posted outside the white house. we any theres a covid briefing in about 2 1/2 hours from now. weve got other news breaking this hour as we come on the air, four minutes ago, that hhs has this new vaccine for its workforc...

The entire public health infrastructure of the united states at the top of which is the cdc. so i mean a lot of people play with that wording, dont listen to dr. this or dr. that. thats not the way it is. there is a lot of work and consideration going into the recommendations. but people want to polarize it also personalize it and it is really not helpful. >> dr. anthony fauci there. a lot to digest there. we have dr. xavier bacerra joining us now. you just announced last hour that hhs is going ...

Details are showing in a couple of instances some of the people they looked at ended up having pfizer for longer than they had moderna. it could be a time issue that the pfizer was in their body longer so it wore off, versus the moderna, which they didnt get quite early on during the pandemic. theres dosing issues, too. were seeing in the data its wearing off for people getting infections, meaning they tested positive but not necessarily for people getting serious illness, hospitalizations or de...

What happens if it doesnt get vaccinated, what happens? >> the majority of those workers are already vaccinated. were just now saying to that. we believe this has already taken on that call. we want to make sure that everyone continues to do so. someone who is providing direct health care from hhs, they know they will be safe and those worker wills be safe. >> with that in mind, this is your department or the cdc going to issue more strict guidance? >> we will continue to issue

Good guidance, and i think that it has been a pivotal voice. so we will continue to offer the guidance based on what the science tells us. so we will continue to have cdc off of that guidance. how it is implemented we work with the states and the local governments to make sure theyre using common sense. >> dr. fauci talks about the safety of our children. many students back where mask mandates have been prohibited. right now you have some cools defying their states leaders. what power, if any, d...

Hhs, pediatric hospitalizations are more than four times higher than they were a month ago. so, what do parents need to know about this delta variant, and how it is impacting kids? we keep hearing more kids are ending up in the hospital, its more transmissible. but what does the science show in terms of how harmful it can be? >> its clearly more transmissible. there were three studies reported by the cdc showing that it appears to be more likely to cause severe disease. this virus is good at fin...

Truth of our government at the outset of this pandemic. >> he clearly has major differences and problems with the trump administration. what do you say to that? >> well, i disagree with that. i can tell you dr. bright, i worked with him at hhs, but he was really not involved in any of the decision making and certainly i dont know how you can criticize the vaccine rollout. you know, we had secured 900 million vaccines before we left office. on the day of inauguration of president biden, 1.5 milli...

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Were going to continue to work with hhs. were also sending community engagement teams. the biggest thing were doing state and local jurisdictions have done great work to put contracts in place to help augment their staff and resources over the last 18 months. were continuing to support that by reimbursing at 100%. we have got a lot of capability today. a little more than we had earlier. we will continue to listen to what the needs are at the state and local level and partner with them to get wha...