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Pharmaceutical companies need to be stop leading on messaging on this topic. modernas doing it, pfizer. its a habit they cant quit. they need to stop doing this. the message that i hear from young people, doc, now i need three doses to be protected? its confusing people and they need to stop. what is clear, and what i suspect the fda is going to release, im glad they are doing it -- that if you are immunocompromised, if you have cancer, chemotherapy, its a long list, 4% of america has that condi...

>> papers. so it is worth noting things are not good in texas with coronavirus. nearly 8,500 people right now in the hospital, thats the highest number since february. the second highest in the u.s. behind florida. >> the state is averaging 12,000 new cases a day. the highest since february before the vaccine was, of course, widely available. houstons texas medical center just admitted 300 covid patients in a single day and top official in that county says theyre heading toward a public health c...

Vaccine booster strategy, whether a third booster shot should be made available and when, were learning new decisions emerging right now for those who are immunocompromised, that that will likely come first. how important is it for those who are at high risk to have access to a booster shot, a third pfizer or moderna shot? >> well, up to 12 million americans right now suffer from some forms of immunosuppression or immunocompromise. and we have clearly shown that they do not respond nearly as wel...

Other institutions unless they get their workers vaccinated. so certainly it seems like there is more to come from the president in the coming weeks in terms of how hes going to boost those vaccination numbers and certainly concern inside this white house about the effect that the delta variant will have on the health and the economy of this country. >> and jeremy, also some more clarity today, am i right, about a question weve been asking for the last couple weeks, if and when there might be a ...

Having a booster shot for those over the age of 60 in that population. that probably will, you know, also apply to here, in the united. but i think the biggest two things to take away is that we need to continue to follow the data. continue to do surveillance and monitoring on, you know, the overall-breakthrough cases and seeing, you know, if the vaccine-induced immunity is waning. and then, have a good plan. have that booster shot ready, when we need to use it. whether its for the elderly popul...

élan omar and the squad that is in the news all the time, making the splash or the big democrats other than them? cant think of any attorney sanders will run again because why not, the same people weve been talking about would be the challengers. brian: it has been a struggle to keep up the biden administration changing its mind on everything from covenant. this week we found even vaccinated americans have to wear masks. >> the masks are being put on for vaccinated people in areas of high densi...

Infections. your state reported more than 3,000 cases among those who are fully vaccinated. >> im very concerned about the breakthrough infections for a couple of reasons. one, if you look at the document again that was leaked yesterday or last night, it indicates that a substantial minority of hospitalized deaths occurring in people with covid actually were unvaccinated people. we are talking less than 20%. thankfully, there arent that many deaths right now, but i think we are going see an incr...

Little disingenuous to tell people -- its going to give them a bit of ptsd when you go back to a year ago when hospitals are closing. you couldnt get into the doctor and surgeries are being canceled. again, we are missing the message here. these vaccines are actually keeping people out of the hospital. even if they are big suitcases, its very rare for that person to be hospitalized. the people we worry about are the unvaccinated, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. but thats a much smaller p...

Morally liberty ends when you, if you will, swinging your arm threaten to punch me. that happens, i have to restrict what you can do. and thats what covid is. >> dr. wen, what do you think about that? i mean, obviously, there are a whole host of some liberties issues regarding it. you were a baltimore health commissioner. how do you see it? >> i really agree with art here that at some point we as a society have to side what are our values? who is it that we are trying to protect? right now the u...

If you will, swinging your arm, threaten to punch me. that happens. i have to restrict what you can do and thats what covid is. >> dr. wen, what do you think about that? i mean, obviously, there -- there, you know, a whole host of liberties issues regarding just -- you were baltimore health commissioner. what -- how do you see it? >> i really agree with -- with art here. that, at some point, we, as a society, have to decide what are our values? who is it that were trying to protect? i mean, righ...