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Thanks in large part to the delta variant and also that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we can serve the american people and we can get vaccines out to the rest of the world. your reaction and the highlights from what you heard? >> chris, i'm learning about this in real time like you, and i am frankly very surprised. i'm not surprised for the need for a booster nor am i surprised by the science. i have great respect for dr. fauci, dr. walensky and dr. murthy and i have been friends since college. what i was surprised with the speed of the rollout, and first prioritizing immunocompro...

20% of the people in hospital are people who are fully vaccinated. so i need to make it very clear -- of course, that does reflect that we have a high percentage of individuals who are high-risk for a variety of reasons, especially a lot of elderly people that live in our community, a lot of the transplant patients, except, the vaccinated group that's most likely to be in hospital. we have to be very clear. also, being a lab director for a high complexity lab, which is another hat i wear, i can tell you that i have seen the ct values on fully vaccinated individuals with mild and moderate disea...

Diminish. how certain are you about that? are you saying over time that you do not believe these vaccines will continue to be highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death? thanks. >> let's start with you, dr. murthy. >> thanks, jeremy, for that question. first i would say, when we look at the data, we see a reduction in protection against mild to moderate disease across age groups. that was an important part of why we made this recommendation for all adults. we want to protect all adults in our country from the worst effects of covid-19, but our plan does prioritize the most vulner...

Full day in office. importantly, this maintains 100% federal reimbursement for state deployments of national guard personnel for critical covid-19 missions. president biden committed to the american people that he would do everything in his power to end this pandemic. and from his first day in office, the president has marshaled a wartime effort to do exactly that. we have been preparing for every scenario, including the potential need for vaccine booster shots. our approach on booster shots is simple and it's consistent with our approach on every other front of this war. be guided by the scie...

I know you emphasized all of you, this is a false choice, vaccinating americans versus vaccinating the rest of the world. can you explain how there isn't finite vaccine capacity and how booster shots for americans does not at this moment come at the expense of first or second vaccine doses for folks elsewhere in the world? >> so let me go first and dr. murthy, if you want to add anything. look, to end this pandemic, we have to protect the american people and we have to continue to do more and more to vaccinate the world. both are critical. and we're already proving that we can protect our own ...