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And 300 million in the beginning of next year. weave already given over 115 million dozes to 60 countries and $4 billion. we do believe there is an issue. we want to get dozes to the rest of the world, but we can do both things. we can protect our citizens and play the major role in getting vaccines to the rest of the world. >> let's talk about kids and schools. for children under 12, surgeon general murthy says the fda will move fast to approve the vaccines when they approve the data. when should we expect a vaccine announcement for children under 12? >> i have to be honest with you, i don't ...

Vaccine. and finally, all of us must do everything we can to protect our communities from covid-19. that means encouraging our family and friends, our patients and students, our co-workers and neighbors, to get vaccinated. that is our path to ending this pandemic. i'll now turn it over to dr. walensky, who will walk us through the data that helped inform our decision to take action now. >> good morning, everyone. as dr. murthy mentioned, i want to provide an update on vaccine effect tifrness. today we're releasing three articles with data i'll describe that are helping to inform our booster pl...

The asia region by the ends of 2022, and our work to support vaccine manufacturing in africa by providing financing to a south african business to bolster manufacturing capacity to produce more than 500 million doses. we're just going to keep going and going and going. so this is a situation where we're going to do both. we're going to both protect the american people, and we're going to do more and more to help vaccinate the world. dr. murthy. >> thanks, jeff. good to hear your question. appreciate it. look, i do not accept the idea that we have to choose between america and the world. we cle...

Antibody tighters when you do a third immunization dose. last slide. so in summary, the current immunological data that indicate that antibody levels decline over time, higher levels of antibody are associated with a higher level of efficacy, higher levels of antibody may be required to protect against delta and, as i showed you on this former slide, a booster mrna immunization increases antibody titers by multiple-fold. all of this support the use of a third booster mrna immunization to increase the overall level of protection. we'll go back to you now, jeff. >> thank you drs. murthy, fauci a...

Was -- was increasing and a new variant was arriving. and what they saw over that time is that the vaccines were less effective against overall disease transmission. >> but in the meantime, i guess we should point out, and i think you would agree with this, we know the vaccines are still doing a very good job against severe disease and hospitalization, but it was what we heard from the surgeon general today, dr. murthy, who said the concern is that the steady decline that they're seeing in evefficacy so far, th it could lead, he said, at some point to reduced protection against severe disease ...