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The nations from the revelations from internal cdc -- the washington post posted an article on last night where the delta variant appears to cause more severe illness then earlier variants and spreads as easily as chicken pox. maybe most importantly, the cdc presentation said that although vaccines may vaccinated people eight times less likely to get the detective area, if the vaccinated person gets a breakthrough case of the delta variant, they can spread it as easily as an unvaccinated person....

Variant was the predominant variant, and we had data to suggest at the time that if you were infected as a breakthrough case that you couldnt give disease, you couldnt give alpha disease to someone else. fast forward now the end of july, the predominant strain here is delta. the data that we saw was actually unlike alpha. delta allows you to transmit to somebody else. >> eric: thats the concern right now. you just heard dr. walensky, director for the cdc, explaining their reversal this week on w...

Louisiana is the 18-to-29-year-olds, followed by people under the age of 18. the average age of a hospitalized-covid patient in louisiana, last month, was 64. today, its been dragged down to 54 years old. and not because of a flood of middle-aged people. going back to louisianas biggest hospital, for a second. our lady of the lakes childrens hospital had 11 children hospitalized with covid, yesterday. six of them, in the icu. that is made all the more concerning for louisiana and the nation by t...

You will get infected at some time. now we have the ability to prevent these infections. even if you get a breakthrough case of covid, the vaccines prevent you from being hospitalized and prevent you from dying. its a marked improvement from last year. it allows us to remind people that you have the ability to do something about it. last year we were helpless. now we have tools we didnt have before. >> so youve got the tools, so doctor, what are unvaccinated patients telling you? why dont they g...

Highly infectious disease, chances are you will get infected at some point. so now we have the ability to prevent these infections, even if you get a breakthrough case of covid, the vaccines prevent you from getting hospitalized and the prevent you from dying. so its a marked improvement as it was from last year. and it allows us to remind people that you have the ability to do something about it. last year, we were helpless. now, we have this force that we did have before. >> so you have the to...

This news is even though there are 70% of the folks are breakthrough cases, they have been fully vaccinated, all of the symptoms, the vast majority of symptoms are mild or moderate. we havent seen a spike in hospitalizations. these are i undendicators we ha been looking at. it is the delta vary yants thats more contagious and youre likely to have breakthrough case of covid. because of that, we did an advisory a week ago and last night we adopted an indoor mask mandate because we want to accelera...

Were seeing breakthrough cases among vaccinated people. we want to point out to our viewers, theyre rare, if you have a breakthrough case and youre vaccinated, you likely wont end up in the hospital or die. what about vaccinated players getting breakthrough cases? >> we all know that you can still get covid infection if you have a vaccination. but clearly being vaccinated protects you against more severe illness and certainly severe outcomes of hospitalization or death. again, same principles ap...

A lot of unvaccinated people getting very sick and dying. and so my message to people is, its about protecting yourself, your family. these vaccines make an enormous difference in preventing you from getting very sick and dying. everyone needs to get vaccinated. this is how we put the pandemic behind us. >> yeah, perhaps a more productive message than the governor, though she was clearly frustrated today by the cases shes seeing in her state. and were also hearing more about the breakthrough cas...

Severe disease. but for an unvaccinated person youre putting yourself at risk. so youve got to adjust your sort of risk profile of what youre doing. im still avoiding crowded indoor spaces. and if i do find myself in one of those, i do have a mask to put on. but im fully vaccinated. ive made the choice that i can accept a little bit higher risk. but i still am avoiding -- i would not be in a bar in a rock concert in a basement of a pub or something like that. thats just not in my wheelhouse of r...

He will join us in just a moment. >> john: looking forward to that. top health officials testify on the hill, and some experts push to bring back math mandates, but not just for adults. the american academy of pediatrics calling for all children three and older to be masked up at school, even if they have been vaccinated. the conflicts directly with guidance from the cdc. >> sandra: bill cassidy is standing by has one of the lawmakers doing the questioning. he has also, by the way, a physician. ...