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Hello, and welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in for jake tapper on this monday. and we begin this hour with our health lead. cdc data now shows more than 99.99% of fully vaccinated people have avoided a severe breakthrough case of covid. but nearly a third of those eligible still havent gotten the shot. testing lines stretch for hours in orlando. dr. anthony fauci warning the unvaccinated are seeing a smoldering level of infection. one miami doctor says, quote, our childrens hospitals are c...

Are an elderly grandparent and you were one of the first to get the vaccine here in the u.s. right now theyre scheduled to have a discussion on this on friday, not a vote to recommend anything out of the cdc, but it remains to be seen if that changes throughout the week because we know that dr. fauci and others have said a decision, especially those who are immunocompromised should do about booster shots is likely to come soon, sooner than the one for the rest of the population. that is somethin...

Should be recommended soon because we are now learning the vaccine advisers for the cdc will be meeting on friday. whether or not we get a decision from that meeting remains to be seen because right now the agenda that we have just says they will be having a discussion about booster shots. and we know that our reporting shows that the fda was eyeing an early september time line for laying out their strategy of who should get a booster shot and what that time line should look like. though dr. fau...

Question. if you are asymptomatic and you have a breakthrough infection, are you able to pass the virus to others? we have partial data from israel here. the israeli ministry of health, for example, has said that 80% of their breakthrough cases, they -- the individuals who are vaccinated and have a breakthrough case transmit to no one else in a public setting. 10% transmit to only one other person. and so, i think we need a lot more data, like that, here in the u.s. and i hope that the cdc is ve...

Meanwhile, im here in hollywood, and this is the memorial county hospital, and as you can see, the cameras are set up, and there is a news conference here within the next 30 minutes or so where they are going to be announcing to be cutting back elective surgeries, because of the growing number of patients with the coronavirus. and we have seen the same thing in orange county, and the orlando area with the advent health, and jacksonville, and the university of florida health care system, and ther...

Where you are at was supposed to be a center for cancer. >> reporter: if you look at this area, you can see, its set up -- it was going to be a surgical center, but because of the spike in the number of covid cases across the state, they are pivoting because they know there are so many patients coming in and more expected. here in this health system the statistics are alarming because we are seeing younger people who are indeed coming to the hospital with coronavirus. 41% of the covid patients i...

Progressive plans, a lot of the questions dealt with coronavirus, which they came in and said it was one of the four major crises of the administration and they have not yet solved it and they are grappling now with delta variants and its a messaging problem. they have to talk about the breakthrough cases which in some ways a complicated message that undermines the key thing which is still that everyone needs to get vaccinated. and yet, you may be vaccinated and have a breakthrough case, but you...

Vaccinated. that has been the presidents message since vaccinations became prevalent throughout the course of the country. what theyre hoping is that they can settle on the message that, look, if you are vaccinated, there is a 99.99% chance you will not be hospitalized with a breakthrough case. vaccinations are the answer, even though delta is surging throughout the country and how theyre trying to get that message across is obviously continuing what theyve been doing about trying to basically g...

This. you told me a couple days ago you had a breakthrough case of covid. what was it like and how are you feeling? >> im feeling completely fine. i was mildly sick with kind of a bad cold for about a day, day and a half, and i am vaccinated, so it was unfortunate that i got covid, anyway, but it was a very mild illness that was over, really, in just over 24 hours. i feel completely fine today. i credit the vaccine to help me with that. everybody should get it, but you shouldnt be so afraid if y...

Pain and death for unvaccinated people that is largely preventable. grappling with new information that shows the delta variant is not only more transmissible but more harmful than previous variants, again for people who are not vaccinated. all of which has the u.s. moving backwards. largely because roughly 40% of those eligible for the vaccine 12 and older remain unvaccinated. now americans in areas of higher spread, more than 80% of the u.s. are being advised to wear masks indoors regardless o...