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Haven't cooked in yet? >> i think we've given up and that's a mistake. we focus tirelessly on booster dosing when we should focus on dosing and watching dr. sanford in philadelphia go into an african american community and increase rates that has to happen at the local level and completely possible but it's not happening. >> wf to vaccinate ourselves as you point out, our way out of this. the white house has promised a pretty steadily monthly stream, 5 million rapid tests and 5 million pcr tests in k to 12 schools in states that applied for them. there are 48 million students k to 12 in the u....

To either get their first shot or boosters up to an average of 2.2 million doses per day, and i believe the data is just over 600,000 of that are first-time doses. so eating into that unvaccinated portion of the population. are those numbers significant enough to make a difference? >> it's encouraging. we still have tens of millions of people who have chosen not to vaccinate themselves or their children in this country. i just came off a week of being on service, we admitted five children to the hospital yesterday, a couple in the intensive care unit. the problem is not booster dosing. the pro...

Booster shots. doctor, first to you, on governor abbot's order, how will it impact overall vaccinate efforts in texas and other republican lead states. we have seen dates that are working so far. >> sure, our way out of the pan determine sick to vaccinate the unvaccinated. we can have booster dosing as will be recommended probably on this thursday and friday. we can give a third dose to people who already have got mrna vaccines. that will probably not have much of an impact on this pandemic. it will only occur when we can convince 65 million people that told you they don't want to get vaccinat...

Kids. some are already back in class. everyone had hoped this year would be different of course, but covid is being hanging over classrooms. in atlanta more than 100 students on remote learning. >> and two students and two employees tested positive in the very first week of classes, head of the school tells the local website that it hopes to work with families to increase vaccination rates. >> we were at 3 million doses a day. if we had stayed on that pace, we'd probably be at 80% immunity which means that we wouldn't have to have these discussions about things leak like booster dosing. i feel...

With the vaccination rate right now. >> we have seen a recent up tick in vaccinations. averaging 382,000 shots a day. that's a 35% increase over last week's pace. it is the highest it's been in three weeks. that's good news. this is all before new vaccine requirements or mandates. what do you attribute that to? >> maybe the delta variant has scared a critical percentage of people. maybe people like the grooverno governor points a finger at people who haven't gotten a vaccine, but we were at 3 million doses a day a couple months ago. if we stayed there, we would be at 80% population immunity fr...