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century in europe. ♪ ♪ welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. and we begin today with the health lead and the pandemic of the unvaccinated. that's what the white house is calling the alarming rise of new covid cases across the united states. that's right. for the first time in months, every single state in the u.s. is seeing a rise in new cases. the majority of the country shockingly red as you see in that graph. deaths, hospitalizations, they're also up from last week. that's because the delta variant is surging and not nearly enough americans are vaccinated. the white house says that four states, arkansas, louisiana, missouri, and nevada account for more than 40% of all the cases in the past week. the white house also says that one in five of all cases is in florida. the biden administration is blaming misinformation, not just on far-right tv channels.