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Hospitalizations. two-thirds of americans over the age of five are fully vaccinated, 68 million of those folks have received their booster shots. joining me now from greenwich hospital in connecticut is antonia hilton, gary grumbach is in the nation s capital and also joining us is dr. peter hotez, the director of texas children s hospital center for vaccine development. connecticut s governor announced the state would distribute 3 million test kits, 6 million n95 masks. how are they rolling all of that out and is it going to be enough? reporter: well, joe, frankly the rollout hasn t gotten off the ground yet. as you mentioned they wanted to have millions of n95 masks, those 3 million at home test kits to give out for free to residents and people who work this connecticut all around the state. the goal was to have that launched today, people were going to pick up supplies early this morning, bring them back to ....
Dysfunction on the president s agenda. that hasn t happened since you made those comments. we know what happened with build back better. so what is the way forward on build back better after the house version basically died in the senate, at least for now? you know, we re obviously going to have to sit down and work something out with joe manchin. you know, we came close. i think we can make something work. both sides are going to have to give a little. i think the build back better legislation which passed the house, and i was proud to support it, is transformative. not all of that s going to survive this process, we understand that, but i don t think we want to focus on what didn t get done. i think we want to focus on what did get done. and, you know, the infrastructure investment is enormous and it s going to be transformative for a generation. the huge covid bill we passed back in march has allowed for an economic recovery that s rather astounding. you see it in consumer spendin ....
He made behind closed doors to democrats publicly before he does board the plane. that s just the big question here, what they re going to say and how they re going to respond and whether or not they re going to get on board with this idea. nic, there is a lot on the agenda, climate and scotland but the supply chain issues, continuing effects of the pandemic which weighed on u.s. economic xwgrowth in the latest quarter. what is success for president biden and the g-20 summit? success would be able to show they re following through on commitments they made at the last g-20, which was to make sure that the world stayed together in lock step, that developing nations were going to be able to get the same access to covid vaccines, to diagnostics, to all of these things. and the reality is the rollout hasn t been as fast in developing nations. we in the united states and the united kingdom and europe are ....
To americans losing their health churns. kevin is weighing in. good morning, betty. happy friday. happy friday. were you surprised the president issued an apology. is it admission he lied to people saying if you like your health plan, you can keep it? i was surprised he apologized. i don t think he lied to the american people. this is something that just didn t go as planned. this is the hallmark piece of domestic policy for the first term. to some extent, the second term as well. the rollout hasn t gone to plan. it was a huge admission to nbc news this is not going as planned for him and how he hoped, to say the least. the president went on to say he s going to do everything he can to fix the problem and they are looking at a range of options. what are the options, do you have any idea? there s senate democrats up for re-election in 2014 who would like to see him make sure ....