{"id":1065230,"date":"2021-11-29T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065230"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:45:52","slug":"dr-hotez-150000-unvaccinated-americans-needlessly-lost-their-lives-because-they-were-defiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-hotez-150000-unvaccinated-americans-needlessly-lost-their-lives-because-they-were-defiant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hotez: &#039;150,000 Unvaccinated Americans Needlessly Lost Their Lives Because They Were Defiant&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-hotez-150000-unvaccinated-americans-needlessly-lost-their-lives-because-they-were-defiant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peter-Hotez-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Monday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d that since COVID-19 vaccines have been available, \u201c150,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly lost their lives because they were defiant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hotez said, \u201cThe problem is, Chris, right now, the major component of fighting the battle against Omicron in the United States is the same as fighting the battle against Delta. By getting boosted, you\u2019ll not only have a 30 to 40 fold rise in virus-neutralizing antibody to prevent you from getting the Delta variant or going to the hospital, but there\u2019s likely, as Tony said, Dr. Fauci said, you\u2019re going to get a spillover against the Omicron variant. I think that was a major message. The second component is vaccinating the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe third component, which he didn\u2019t say but was implied if you\u2019ve been infected and recovered, you\u2019re still susceptible to reinfection, so you need to get immunized. You need to get vaccinated on top of that. That will actually \u2014 there are studies to show will build in greater resilience against variants, not only Delta but Omicron as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hotez added, \u201cThe major message is get vaccinated. We\u2019re not doing well. You\u2019ve only got 59% of the country fully vaccinated, meaning two doses. I think only a fraction of that has three doses. We still have widespread vaccine defiance. Forty-one percent of the country has gotten no vaccines. So we are still \u2014 I mean, right now, the biggest worry in the United States is this next Delta wave that\u2019s coming over the winter, and remember what happened in our Delta wave over the summer. Since June 1, we\u2019ve lost, I calculate 150,000 unvaccinated Americans to COVID-19. Since June 1, 2021, 150,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly lost their lives because they were defiant. This is going to continue now with this new winter wave, whether it\u2019s Delta or whether it\u2019s Omicron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Monday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cAndrea Mitchell Reports\u201d that since COVID-19 vaccines have been available, \u201c150,000 unvaccinated Americans needlessly lost their lives because &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}