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Variant, it makes up about 50% of scirculating, strains, 99.2% of people hospitalized or killed by the virus are unvaccinated. that is to say the vaccine prevents against severe critical disease caused by the delta vav variant. get vaccinated. >> it's a life and death issue as i keep on saying. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. just ahead, president biden pressing lawmakers as senate democrats reach a deal on a 3 1/2 trillion dollars spending plan. we're going to talk about with senator bernie sanders, he's standing by. we'll discuss with him when we come back jt. also a dist...

June based on cnn's accounting. we were among the unvaccinated. 99.2% was the figure there. i do want to ask you, there is a new fda warning regarding the j&j, the johnson & johnson vaccine over a possible increased risk of a rare neurological complication known as geonbarre syndrome. dr. gupta said you have a higher chance of getting this syndrome from getting the flu as compared to being vaccinated. i wonder where you stand on this. listen, you do studies and trials and sometimes you find even rare potential side effects here. does this change the way you look at this vaccines? >> i think ...

Know and things we're learning as we go along. before we get to the question of boosters, we know vaccinations are keeping people from dying. 99.2% of the deaths in june were among unvaccinated people. can you just help amplify that message to people who are watching now and may still have questions about the vaccine? >> thank you, jim. i couldn't agree with dr. fauci more. i couldn't agree with you more. we have to get people vaccinated. the cases we're seeing, hospitalizations we're seeing, deaths we're seeing from covid-19 are preventable. if people got vaccinated we would not be seeing tha...

Vaccine or not even advocating on behalf of the vaccine, we see what's happening. 99.2% of the people who are extremely ill or dying are unvaccinated. so, i mean, that's a measure where there is not a mixed bag and that tends to go along with the governors making more moderate policy decisions. >> as to vaccines, let me be clear, brianna, they are the difference maker and should absolutely be encouraged. but let me say this by way of background. we're at a point, sadly, in our country where with enough volume and enough repetition, can you convince so to 20% of the population of almost anythin...

Messaging but could this still turn people off from getting vaccinated, dr. nguyen, at a time when the delta variant is rapidly spreading. look at the map. >> well, i definitely agree that misinformation has been a problem all along. i don't mean this misinformation about the booster coast but in general that vaccine disinformation certainly dissuaded people from getting vaccinated and we need to be clear that getting vaccinated is the best way to protect against the delta variant. we know that 99.2% of people who are dying from coronavirus right now are unvaccinated. so that much is really cl...