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the biden administration has done a good job to date getting people vaccinated fully, 76% of adults over the age of 18 have had at least one dose of vaccine, many will complete the series, but it will be much more difficult to vaccinate the next 1% than it was to vaccinate the first 20%. we're fighting for small increments right now. that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to do that. if we can get to 80%, 58% of the adult population vaccinated that's going to have an appreciable difference in terms of the propensity of the virus to continue to spread. we need to recognize it will be a much more difficult task to get the holdouts vaccinated, some people it's still hard for them to access the vaccine, some are reluctant to take the vaccine for various reasons, there's a lot of heterogeneity in terms of why people have chosen to remain unvaccinated up to this point. we are going to have to work patient by patient to try to get additional people vaccinated at this point. >> scott, your book devastatingly details how we dropped the ball on covid. you said the cdc was totally unprepared to handle it.