at least partially vaccinated, but they fell short of that goal. joining me now, former cdc director dr. tom frieden. dr. frieden, welcome back to fox news sunday. great to speak with you. mike: officials are taking something of a victory lap this weekend, attending baseball games, parades and festivals across the country. the message is, it is safe for americans to resume in-person social gatherings. does the science suggest it is time to get back to normal life? well, the bottom with line here is that vaccination is our best route to freedom and independence. and if you look around the u.s., mike, what you see is in states that have most people vaccinate ifed, 70%, at least 20 states have reached that, very low rates of covid and decreasing. in contrast, in the states where we have lower vaccination rates, many of them have much higher rates, 5, 10, 20 times higher rates than those lower states,
at least partially vaccinated, but they fell short of that goal. joining me now, former cdc director dr. tom frieden. dr. frieden, welcome back to fox news sunday. great to speak with you. mike: officials are taking something of a victory lap this weekend, attending baseball games, parades and festivals across the country. the message is, it is safe for americans to resume in-person social gatherings. does the science suggest it is time to get back to normal life? well, the bottom with line here is that vaccination is our best route to freedom and independence. and if you look around the u.s., mike, what you see is in states that have most people vaccinate ifed, 70%, at least 20 states have reached that, very low rates of covid and decreasing. in contrast, in the states where we have lower vaccination rates, many of them have much higher rates, 5, 10, 20 times higher rates than those lower states,