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That as a learning experience. we have a moment here to, again, be preventive. it's expected that the delta variant surge will peak in our area in the next two to three weeks. i love my state. i want people to be healthy. i want us all to be happy. unfortunately right now our vaccine rate in north dakota is very low. we are about 47th, 46th out of the country. we just crossed 50% of our citizens being fully vaccinated. and it's even lower in our adolescents. so, not nearly the population level of immunity we need. >> dr. newman, thank you for what you're doing and thank you for your work. real...

Very low. we are about 47th, 46th out of the country. we just crossed 50% of our citizens being fully vaccinated. and it's even lower in our adolescents. so, not nearly the population level of immunity we need. >> dr. newman, thank you for what you're doing and thank you for your work. really appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. next we're going to update you on a bill to avert a government shutdown which just passed the house.

Scientist looking at the data. i think that's also where some of this schism occurred, was between people who are looking at this big picture at the population level and people looking at the laboratory level. >> what you are saying is you see looking at the laboratory level you see boosted immunities and levels, so there's a case for this. if you are looking at the population level, you're looking at how long does it last and what's the efficacy of deploying a booster at scale, what does it get us? is that what you're saying? >> that's exactly right. are you relying on antibodies to really te...

Group. so this was a real—world evaluation. we were trying to work with people to say, can we encourage them to where their masks more? you could argue, we were fairly effective, going from 13% to a2%. had we pushed this higher, we have no doubt that we would have had an even bigger impact on covid—i9. and importantly, that 9% is an overall estimate. if you look at people who got these surgical masks, they went down by 12% and if you look at people who got surgical masks over the age of 50, they got 35% less covid—i9. so there is no question that the masks were effective. i think this re...

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