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And 300 million in the beginning of next year. weave already given over 115 million dozes to 60 countries and $4 billion. we do believe there is an issue. we want to get dozes to the rest of the world, but we can do both things. we can protect our citizens and play the major role in getting vaccines to the rest of the world. >> lets talk about kids and schools. for children under 12, surgeon general murthy says the fda will move fast to approve the vaccines when they approve the data. when shoul...

Vaccine. and finally, all of us must do everything we can to protect our communities from covid-19. that means encouraging our family and friends, our patients and students, our co-workers and neighbors, to get vaccinated. that is our path to ending this pandemic. ill now turn it over to dr. walensky, who will walk us through the data that helped inform our decision to take action now. >> good morning, everyone. as dr. murthy mentioned, i want to provide an update on vaccine effect tifrness. tod...

The asia region by the ends of 2022, and our work to support vaccine manufacturing in africa by providing financing to a south african business to bolster manufacturing capacity to produce more than 500 million doses. were just going to keep going and going and going. so this is a situation where were going to do both. were going to both protect the american people, and were going to do more and more to help vaccinate the world. dr. murthy. >> thanks, jeff. good to hear your question. appreciate...

Antibody tighters when you do a third immunization dose. last slide. so in summary, the current immunological data that indicate that antibody levels decline over time, higher levels of antibody are associated with a higher level of efficacy, higher levels of antibody may be required to protect against delta and, as i showed you on this former slide, a booster mrna immunization increases antibody titers by multiple-fold. all of this support the use of a third booster mrna immunization to increas...

Was -- was increasing and a new variant was arriving. and what they saw over that time is that the vaccines were less effective against overall disease transmission. >> but in the meantime, i guess we should point out, and i think you would agree with this, we know the vaccines are still doing a very good job against severe disease and hospitalization, but it was what we heard from the surgeon general today, dr. murthy, who said the concern is that the steady decline that theyre seeing in eveffi...

Thanks in large part to the delta variant and also that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we can serve the american people and we can get vaccines out to the rest of the world. your reaction and the highlights from what you heard? >> chris, im learning about this in real time like you, and i am frankly very surprised. im not surprised for the need for a booster nor am i surprised by the science. i have great respect for dr. fauci, dr. walensky and dr. murthy and i have been friends sinc...

20% of the people in hospital are people who are fully vaccinated. so i need to make it very clear -- of course, that does reflect that we have a high percentage of individuals who are high-risk for a variety of reasons, especially a lot of elderly people that live in our community, a lot of the transplant patients, except, the vaccinated group thats most likely to be in hospital. we have to be very clear. also, being a lab director for a high complexity lab, which is another hat i wear, i can t...

Diminish. how certain are you about that? are you saying over time that you do not believe these vaccines will continue to be highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death? thanks. >> lets start with you, dr. murthy. >> thanks, jeremy, for that question. first i would say, when we look at the data, we see a reduction in protection against mild to moderate disease across age groups. that was an important part of why we made this recommendation for all adults. we want to protect all adu...

Full day in office. importantly, this maintains 100% federal reimbursement for state deployments of national guard personnel for critical covid-19 missions. president biden committed to the american people that he would do everything in his power to end this pandemic. and from his first day in office, the president has marshaled a wartime effort to do exactly that. we have been preparing for every scenario, including the potential need for vaccine booster shots. our approach on booster shots is ...

I know you emphasized all of you, this is a false choice, vaccinating americans versus vaccinating the rest of the world. can you explain how there isnt finite vaccine capacity and how booster shots for americans does not at this moment come at the expense of first or second vaccine doses for folks elsewhere in the world? >> so let me go first and dr. murthy, if you want to add anything. look, to end this pandemic, we have to protect the american people and we have to continue to do more and mor...