Biden Covid Adviser: ‘I Want Every Person in the Country Vaccinated’

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OSTERHOLM: "More 20-year-olds are getting seriously ill and being hospitalized, more 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds are. But the point of it is, those who are 65 years of age and older make up over 80 percent of the deaths we have in this country. And if you really want to see a population impacted, leave those high-risk people, leave the people who are from a work standpoint still at risk. Leave the people who have underlying comorbidities, who are older population members. That’s where we’re going to see the real hit in terms of deaths, hospitalizations and serious illnesses. So I want to get everybody vaccinated. You know, your producer asked me before we started here what should be the goal, 200 million people vaccinated as opposed to 100 million? No, I want everybody in the country vaccinated. But the bottom line, in the short period of time we have while this B.1.1.7. Is rolling out and doing what it’s doing, we have to get those people who are most at risk of being seriously ill vaccinated, and we’re not doing that right now."