The Highwire with Del Bigtree - REMEMBER WHEN THEY SAID IT WOULD STOP TRANSMISSION?

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

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Everyone who takes the vaccine is not just protecting themselves, but reducing their transmission to other people and allowing society to get back to normal. We can kind of almost see the end. We're vaccinating so very fast. Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick. Getting vaccinated and getting a booster shot when eligible can save your life and protect you and your family and friends from getting seriously ill. spreading infection. What do you think the probability is 80%? Personally, I think it's 100%. I think that there's a reduction in transmission.

Essentially, vaccines block you from getting and giving the virus. We have all the vaccines we need. We just need our people to take it, A, for their own protection, for the protection of their family, but also to break the chain of transmission. You want to be a dead end to the virus. So when the virus gets to you, you stop it. You don't allow it to use you as the stepping stone to the next person.

Failure to get vaccinated doesn't just put you at risk. I think this is what is important. In a way, if there's not you who suffers, if you don't, simply, it's also other people. If you've done the right thing and gotten vaccinated, you deserve the freedom to be safe from COVID-19, to have your kids safe from COVID, to get back to the things you love. You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. If enough people get vaccinated, it actually halts transmission. The people who are not getting vaccines,

you don't have to listen to a minority of people who are being harmful to the greater good and who are not acting on logic, reason, and science. I want everyone to be vaccinated so that they're safe and so that their families are safe and so that life can feel a little more normal again. Now we know that the vaccines work well enough, that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus. The virus does not infect them.

The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. That means the vaccines will get us to the end of this.