Support to get as Many Americans vaccinated as fast as possible. The pentagon says theyre going to be deploying 1,100 troops to five vaccination megasites all over the country. Three of those sites are still tbd. The first in california. The pentagon says that those first troops should be arriving there in a little over a week. What we know is that 1,100, an initial group, one team of 222, will be deploying to california to a site in california in the coming days. We expect they will get on site, on or about the 15th of this month. Martha this is part of President Bidens push to get 100 Mass Vaccination Centers in a month. The pentagon has asked fema to provide 10,000 Service Members to staff the centers. Todays announcement marks the beginning of fulfilling that request. Vaccinating teachers, its been a big topic in the White House Briefing room all week after the director of the cdc said it was safe to reopen schools without Vaccinating Teachers first. But the White House Press secretary says the cdc director was only speaking in her personal capacity and that that was not the official guidance. The guidance will come from the cdc as the doctor certainly conveyed to you. What were all conveying and what i just did is convey that theres a lot of data that shows that it is, of course, were looking at vaccines, thats an important part of Keeping Teachers and the American Public safe, but we also need to look at other mitigation steps. Martha The Big Question now is, of course, when is this official guidance from the cdc going to come out. The White House Press secretary said she didnt know. This is clearly a critical piece of the president s goal to reopen schools within 100 days. So a lot of folks, teachers, parents, kids all over the country it waiting for this guidance from the cdc to come out. Neil thanks, kristin. The read on this from dr. Anthony fauci, the chief medical adviser. Good to have you here. As you have seen here, 57 million vaccine doses have been delivered. 35 million have gotten them though. What is the problem with that . Well, a couple things. Certainly theres a discrepancy between the amount delivered and the amount thats gotten in peoples office. Its not necessarily as large a gap as the numbers show. Very often when you get a vaccine into a persons arms, its not reported as having been done for a period of a few days. Its likely less of a gap. Theres still a gap. That gets to something that you actually Just Announced a moment ago. Is that President Biden made it very clear as part of his Strategic Plan that came out a couple weeks ago that were going to do whatever we can to enhance and support the implementation of the administration. That goes to everything from what you just said about getting it first, 1,100 Military Troops to be a part of the process of getting the vaccine into peoples arms in several of the Community Vaccine centers out there, to ship directly to pharmacy, to use mobile units to get to not easily to access areas. So what youre seeing, neil, youre seeing the rollout of what was originally and now in reality the president s Strategic Plan to enhance the vaccination program. That is exactly what were seeing right now. Neil doctor, we just came off of one of the worst months for death even though a continued improving trend on hospitalizations. Theres a disconnect there. What do you make of that . Yeah, thats the lag that you see. Weve seen it so many times. When you get an escalation of cases, you dont see hospitalizations and deaths to escalate for a lag of two weeks and 2 to 2 1 2 weeks for deaths. Right now were seeing a plateauing and deminutation a day. So theyre starting to plateau and come down. The deaths will come down but theres a lag before they come down commensurate with the number of cases coming down. So this is not something that is surprising to see these couple of week lags between actual cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Neil so let me ask you a couple of dumb questions here. Even if youve gotten the vaccine, you should keep wearing a mask. Do you subscribe to that as well . Yeah, the answer is yes. Theres a reason for that. At this particular time were not certain whether or not vaccination is going to protect you against getting infected but having no symptoms. We know that the primary end point of the Vaccine Trials that led to the Emergency Use Authorization that showed 94 to 95 efficacy was effective in preventing symptomatic disease. What we need to show is that it actually prevents you from getting infected even though you tonight have any symptoms. So its conceiable that i could get vaccinated, get infected and have no symptoms because the vaccine is preventing me from getting symptoms. But i still could have virus in my nasal pharynx. Until we know, theres still some risk, likely a small risk, that you may not know youre infected inadvertently because youve been vaccinated but yet you might pass the infection to someone else. For that reason, we recommend wearing a mask even though youve been vaccinated. Neil you raised the possibility of recommendation of wearing two masks. Is that right . No, i wasnt recommending it. Theres a lot of discussion about that. That people have asked. A reasonable question, common sense, if one mask prevents you from getting infected or prevents you from infecting others, its a physical barrier. So people have asked, if i wear two masks, would that be better . The answer is we dont have the data to make a formal recommendation of that. But it makes common sense that if it makes you feel more comfortable and more protected, theres nothing wrong with wearing two masks. So rather than have a formal recommendation because we dont have the data yet, we say if youd like to wear one, do ahead. I have myself in the past wore two masks. Neil Homeland Security is forcing theish you at tsa, finding people that to not. Up to 1,500. What do you think of that . I think the president is correct. When he first actually before he was inaugurated, he was saying one of his policies would be that he would have 100 days of everybody wearing a mask. Thats at least 100 days. Maybe more. Now, in order to get the full effect, you have to get everyone to be wearing a mask. You know theres a lot of disparity about peoples feelings about wearing a mask. Theres some things that the federal government can have control over, that you can have a mandate to wear masks in certain places like transportation, planes, trains, places controlled by the federal government. So we have to all get on the same bandwagon here about Wearing Masks. If one of the things that will help us get there is buy a mandate that in certain locations that you can control, that you tell people that they have to be wearing a mask. So i have no problems with that. Neil you know, the cdc director talked about not all teachers had to be vaccinated to return to class. Many teachers unions are saying not so fast. The president even parted company there to say, you know, lets wait, examine this. Where are you on this . Do teachers need to be vaccinated . Is it safe for them to be vaccinated before returning to the classroom. What do you think . Certainly if you want to look at 40,000 feet that teachers are Essential Personnel in society. When you get to that area, which is 1 b after 1 a of the recommended priorities, that we should get teachers vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can. The actual guidance as you were talking about running up to this discussion is that the cdc will be coming out with that soon. But the default should be and has been that to the best of our ability we should try to get the children Back To School as quickly as we can and keep them in school. Neil is it risky if it means getting the kids back, everyone back for inperson classes even though not all teachers have been vaccinated, is there a risk to that or more risk to that not happen something. Youre asking the question, neil. Theres a risk to almost everything were doing in this environment. So the question is relative risk. How much do you want to diminish the risk . You cant have children going back to School Without necessarily having everyone vaccinated, all the teachers, all the students vaccinated. But clearly what youll be seeing as you said correctly, the cdc will come out with guidance to clarify that. Neil you know, youve had a chance a couple of weeks in the Biden Administration to work with two different president s of the task force and dealing with this. Thoughts . Comparing, contrasting . You know, i dont think its productive to look back and compare and criticize and get into that kind of a discussion. Really right now weve got to use all of our energy to look forward. Right now, you know, im busy, fully involved with being the chief medical adviser to medical biden. Were out there doing the kind of things that i feel are important such as speaking to you and getting the message to the American Public about the things that we need to do. We have a great challenge ahead of us. That really is something that i think we need to put our energies towards. Neil President Biden, you know, asked people like you to run these briefings, task forces. Some criticized his predecessor for doing that and then stopping them. Are you comfortable with the way the task force is running right new and responding to all of this, including this latest effort to have troops help get vaccines to us . Oh, yes, im extremely comfortable with how things are running. As President Biden said publicly but hes also said it very emphatically to us in private, that science will determine our decisions, our policies and our guidelines. Were going to base it on Scientific Data and evidence. When we make a mistake we wont stumble when you have a certain challenging situation like that. But if and when we do, rather than complaining or blaming anybody, well fix it. Try to fix it. Im very comfortable with the fact that this a sciencebasedsituation. I havent seen one bit of politics come in to any discussions when we have our team, the medical team that gets together every day. As you well know, were out there right now with Press Conferences three times a week. When you look and see who is there its essentially the medical people. Neil so you said without politics involved. Was it involved prior, doctor . Again, im not going to go there. Im not going to make comparisons. That only is that only makes the sound bites. Doesnt help us. Neil finally, a lot of people are looking at this and hearing about no cruises to canada, maybe the rest of the year, limit your foreign travel, its a real hassle. Economically this goes on, well be Wearing Masks until the end of the year. What is your best bet and i know its a Pie In The Sky kind of question, but when were back to whatever normal was, what do you think . I think well approach normal its not a light switch that you turn on. Youre not normal and then click, back to normal. It will be a gradual evolution towards that. As we get more and more people vaccinated i had said in the past and ill repeat it now. Its an estimate of when you of the get to the point of socalled herd immunity. You get a umbrella or blanket of protection over the community. I imagine that would be somewhere between 70 and 85 of the population. When we get there, we can think of approaching rather considerable degree of normality. When we get to march, april and may, a substantial number of people will be vaccinated. When we get to the summer, well be likely doing things that we were not able to do at a time when there was the 300,000 and 400,000 new infections a day. As the infections get to a low level and the relative risk of having a problem becomes much, much less, then youll find yourself getting closer and closer to normality. Well get there as we get closer to the fall of 2021. Neil dr. Fauci, thank you for updating us. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Neil dr. Fauci, the chief white house adviser. 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My strongest ally and my closest asset. The gold standard, so to speak ; people call my future uncertain. But theres one thing i am sure of. Neil the markets relish any stimulus. Chad pergram has more on whether it was pass. Senate democrats demonstrated overnight they had enough support to forge ahead with the next round of Covid Relief Legislation on their own. Its a divided senate. So Vice President harris was in the chair when the senate cleared the hurdle just before dawn. On this vote, the yays are 50, the neys are 50. The senate being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative and the resolution Action Amended is adopted. The key here is all 50 democrats stuck together and voted for a general frame work. They needed the Vice President to break the tie. The reason the democrats want to move the plan is to use a special gambet for covid aid. It neutralizes the filibuster for this bill and bill only. The democrats dont need gop help. It is a reconciliation bill. That means we can pass it with 51 votes in the senate. Would be my hope we tonight have to use it as a reconciliation bill. We want bipartisanship. Pelosi hopes to vote on the plan at the end of the month. Neil . Neil all right, chad. Thank you very much. Chad pergram following that. Reaction from brian here, Fox News Contributor and we also have francis here. We begin with you on this market reaction. If people with worried about the spending, youd see it in the investment world. Theyre not. Maybe theyre over it. What do you think . Yeah, so we talk about this all the time, you and me. We talk about the fact that debt cant go on forever, but it can go on until it cant. As long as we can service the debt, wore off to the races. Oddly heard and some day that will not be true. Oddly heard though is that you have to have a certain amount of money in the system when the systems progress is based on stimulus. You have to keep that spigot on high in order to keep the Swimming Pool full. I heard why this is a bad idea. Its too much. Pushing the deficits higher. Until we can determine that new level for the Swimming Pool, you dont want to get into a situation where you have a shortage of money. Its swamped up quickly with debt. Then you get into a risk for a financial crisis. Neil you know, looks like this is the democrats liking, ryan. In other words, they would love to have republican support. Maybe they targeted who gets the stimulus checks. But its a democratic plan and a democratic stimulus package. And i wonder when the president referred to id rather err going too big than too small, is that your view as well . Look, neil, we have gone big on covid for a very long time. Like 3 1 2 Trillion big. So we talk about the Swimming Pool and whether its full. Its full of cash right now. The risk we have is that were not going to get the productive capacity back in this country next year with all the new regulations, with potentially a new higher minimum wage standard. That is where you Start Talking about inflation. The markets want to ignore the inflation story. President biden wants to ignore it. Con