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That s out of 164 million people who have been fully vaccinated. that s a breakthrough infection rate of 0.07%. according to the cdc less than 1,000 of those 164 million have died. look, there is no zero risk in life from anything. you can walk out of the house today and get hit by a bus. your chances of getting seriously ill from covid if you re vaccinated are as close to zero as they could be. dana: you had some administration officials this morning suggesting that lockdowns might be coming back. we ll that is not happening. but they are saying if you don t do this, then we ll have to go to the lockdowns. i think the american people are confused and a little bit had it especially as schools begin. i want to ask you this as well. kevin mccarthy in the house was basically said something like he was handed a gavel that he could use if he were ever to ....
Sort. so i don t think we really know the breakthrough infection rate. i think this olympic ss s is probably going to teach us that. going to show us that because as you point out, you got coming from all over the world. they are not all vaccinated because some countries don t have enough vaccines, yet, as you know. but i think we are going to get a better idea of just how common these braekeakthrough infection really are. so you think it s a good sign that they are catching these cases, meaning that they re you know, discovering them. does it show that these safety measures are working? yeah. i i think if you look at the two biggest things. the testing and the fact that they re really trying to cordon off the the olympic village from the rest of japan. i think those things will probably make the biggest d difference. i think some of the other things like pleksy glass and things like that. they just don t work. i mean, that was 2020, early-pandemic sort of thinking. we now kn ....
Asymptomatic people. the pcr test is so sensitive, it can detect as few as one dead virus particle in your nose, even though your immune system worked to fend it off and there s no risk of transmission or illness. that s part of the problem. shannon: i know people personally who were vaccinated months ago and have gotten very sick with their covid case testing. not just a symptomatic situation but people are very ill. is that just the exception to the rule? is it the delta variant? is the efficacy of the vaccines limited? what you re describing our true breakthrough infections, not asymptomatic positive test but people with real symptoms. that has been known for a long time. the vaccine is roughly 90 to 95% efficacious which means there s a breakthrough infection rate. right now maybe that breakthrough infection rate is accelerated with delta. ....
This morning, here in the states. listen. sanjay, we are already seeing more than 60 covid cases tied to the olympics in the games. the games haven t even started, yet. with vaccinated and unvaccinated people gathering from hundreds of countries, don t you think this was bound to happen? yes, i i do, don. i mean, i think that this has been the sort of challenge, all along. and, you know, you talk talk to the conference organizers and they say we would expect positive cases. about half those cases, by the way, don, are from japanese locals. about half from international athletes but as you point out, we haven t really even begun, yet. so those numbers are likely to go up. one thing i want to point out, don, i think this is really important. if you were to ask people what is the breakthrough infection rate? in vaccinated people. what is it? we keep hearing it s rare. fact is it s hard to know because, in the united states, let me show you this graph. testing has come way down, sinc ....
Vaccinated? right now the math suggests a lawmakers breakthrough infection rate is astronomically high when compared to the cdc rate calculated back in april. this at the cost of keeping the democrats out of the lone star state continues to rise expecting to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 million according to state representative armando wally. he said that private chartered jets, it cost more than 100 grand. housing, food and other transportation will make up the bulk of the other expenses. they are still getting paid while away from texas and away from working at the statehouse. shannon: i read an account at a cost about a million dollars to put on the special session in texas. if you don t have people there to finish voting on legislation, there s going to be a special election or session, nothing makes it to the governor s desk. maybe it will. we ll see what happens. ....