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Infections associated with the hawaii delta variant. >> arkansas is on the upward surge ever the third wave of covid-19 here in our state and it is tilting towards younger people. we are also seeing breakthrough infections in individuals who are immunocompromised. >> to see a potential third wave is disheartening and disappointing because, quite frankly, its preventible. >> reporter: the mayor admits he had initial concerns about the vaccines but also lost family to covid earlier in the pandemic...

Life support in ten days. it was all so fast. >> reporter: the state of arkansas trying these public service announcements to get an urgent message out directly from former vaccine skeptics themselves. >> my thoughts have definitely changed on the vaccine. i do believe getting vaccinated is the safest thing to do for your family. >> reporter: arkansass vaccination rate recently stalled. only 35% of the states population is fully vaccinated. thats one of the lowest rates in the country. making ma...

If they have been fully vaccinated. now, getting back to normal, which we all want to do, depends on people feeling safe. so does he appreciate that those who are immunocompromised, or for whom the vaccination is less effective, will have their freedoms curtailed by ditching masks on public transport? so lets have a u—turn on mask wearing. yes, lets have freedom, but not a high risk free—for—all. keep masks for now, fix sick pay, and lets unlock in a safe and sustainable way. hear, hear! t...

Immunocompromised. and until we have clear data that thats not true, i dont think theres any reason to be talking about a third shot or a booster of any kind. all the data right now says two is good. if we see new data, well want to look at that and make decisions. >> lets talk about, frankly, what weve discussed before, this overlap of the lack of vaccinations and how it correlates with political leanings and the gap growing between democrats and republicans who have or say they will be vaccina...

What it demonstrated if you give a booster your antibody titers will go up. if so, when and if so, whom. the populations likely going to be candidates for boosting before the general population are individuals over the age of 65. people who are immunocompromised, taking medications that can dampen the immune response to the vaccine. i think its important to point out i as well as other experts have repeatedly said the tiers are not the whole story. the b cell, t cells ready and waiting and poise...

I do commend them for taking measures to do that. one could argue that perhaps a lot of the measures that have already been -- were already put in place like mask mandates were rolled back too quickly and we now find ourselves in this difficult position where weve gone all in on vaccines as the one protective measure that is going to save us and yet in a lot of communities vaccination rates arent high enough and thats not even considering people who wont benefit from that, immunocompromised peop...

And yet we do have to try. i do commend them for taking measures to do that. one could argue that perhaps a lot of the measures that have already been -- were already put in place like mask mandates were rolled back too quickly and we now find ourselves in this difficult position where weve gone all in on vaccines as the one protective measure that is going to save us and yet in a lot of communities vaccination rates arent high enough and thats not even considering people who wont benefit from t...

Speak of today but were monitoring other types of delta variants, delta plus, things that could make this variant more infectious, stephanie. we have data from abroad that shows you could catch this virus airborne as we know, covid is, in a matter of minutes, so if you are unvaccinated, you must do all those things, masking, distance, avoiding crowds, to your question, stephanie, if youre vaccinated, you are overall protected and let me give you the caveat im giving to my patients. if you are in...

A doctor alongside to put context, whether he meant it or not, it will lead to vaccine hesitancy at a time where we cannot let that happen. right now today, this summer, you are safer if your child, youre not vaccinated, you are safer living in a community where everyone around you is vaccinated. if you are immunocompromised, even if youre vaccinated and the vaccine isnt working well on you, you are safer living in a community where everyone is vaccinated around you, and thats what we need to ai...

Doctors still recommend coronavirus vaccinations for people who may be immunocompromised by cancer, lupus, organ transplants and other conditions.