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Talking about the issue yesterday and the fact that they've been preparing on the supply side of things for months now, and that's despite the fact that public health officials have said the vaccine is effective against the delta variant and other mutations but clearly the white house and the covid-19 team has had contingency plans in place. what we are expecting today is some sort of justification for why an eight-month time line for getting a booster shot after that second dose. we know there's been some red flags certainly in terms of studies internationally. israel for example would be one...

>> this demonstrates that vaccine effectiveness declined from 75% in march to 53% in august 1, 2021. this represents a substantial decline in the vaccine's effectiveness. >> sandra: does that mean i was told that the pfizer vaccine is 95% efficacy rate. right now it's only 55%? is that what i take away from that? >> it is. over a period of time. as time goes on. 6 to 9 months, the protection against getting the infection goes down. it was 95% within the first couple of months. it drops. number, two the vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization and death still remains high but we expect tha...

Red map. >> you're right. flu vaccines that we take seasonally well below the efficacy rate we're see ing the covid-19 vaccine. >> right. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. >> thanks. back to school, it's happening in some places, about to happen in others. the delta variant sadly surging as the largest school districts head back to class. adults and students regardless of their vaccination status, should wear masks in school. a number of republican governors are pushing back against that guidance, imposing their own mandates to stop mask requirements at the local level, in some cases ev...

If it breaks or infections. it appears that some vaccinated people can spread the virus to others. if we all get vaccinated, wear masks, we will see these cases come down again. my concern is that the current graph that you are seeing in that you mentioned, that points to a number that can go from 50,000 a day -- that can go to 200,000 a day in the next coming months. we need to double down on protection because we are dealing with a doubly infectious variant. the one i have so many questions and only 2 minutes. let me go through this. it says that there are 35,000 symptomatic infections per w...

Patient load grew by 67% over the past week to 720 from 430. at uf health, jacksonville, one doctor said 90% of covid-19 patients were unvaccinated and 5% were not fully vaccinated. the remaining 5% were vaccinated but also had significant comorbidities or were on immuno suppressant drugs. >> let's stop there for one second, mika, as far as the vaccines go. sam stein, nobody ever said the vaccines were perfect. in fact, pfizer's efficacy rate was 95%. i think moderna, the efficacy rate, 89, 88%. at least that's what they were saying when it started. j&j lower, i think around 75%, those numbers...