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President Biden has again urged unvaccinated people in the United States to get their Covid-19 jabs. His call comes as cases surge in the US to a record global high of one million daily infections, and the number of hospitalised patients surges by nearly 50% in the past week.

Newsday asked Peter Hotez - Professor of Paediatrics and Molecular Virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and author of "Preventing the next pandemic" - what a million cases in a day means to him.

鈥淭he irony is the one-million is probably an under-estimate because of so many people who have been unable to get tested. We have to face the reality that this is not going to be associated with herd immunity.鈥�

鈥淭he president made a comment that the US leads all countries in providing 275 million doses to 100 countries. But... we need 9 billion doses for the African continent, South-east Asia and Latin America.鈥�

鈥淲e need to make a concerted effort to vaccinate the world鈥檚 low and middle income countries. And that鈥檚 the only way to counteract this 鈥� to vaccinate the entire planet.鈥�

(Pic: A woman getting a Covid swab test. Credit: Getty Images)

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