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A breakthrough case is when an individual tests positive for COVID-19 after they've been fully vaccinated against the disease.

The horseradish gave it away.

Yvonne Rodrigue said she couldnt imagine how much more her father would have suffered if he had not been vaccinated.

Is still sticking to his ban on mask mandates. and at memorial herman southwest in houston, icu nurse jennifer steenburg and her staff pushed to their limit. >> i feel like weve lost this fight. and my nurses feel the same way. we are at the end. theres despair, theres trauma, theres anger, theres frustration. theyre putting their lives on the line to fight covid. what is everybody else doing? >> and so lets bring in victor oquendo tonight. and i know were also learning this evening about vaccin...

Focussing on education and id like him to let me do my job. >> again, as we have established here, the schools start tomorrow, and the current new case positivity rate for children now superintendent under 12 is 20.5%. thats higher than the overall state rate of 18.9%. what are you hearing from your principals, teachers, parents and incoming students? >> id say our teachers and our principals are very much concerned about the positivity rate because we do run into, you know, this is what for peo...

Here, the schools start tomorrow, and the current new case positivity rate for children now superintendent under 12 is 20.5%. thats higher than the overall state rate of 18.9%. what are you hearing from your principals, teachers, parents and incoming students? >> id say our teachers and our principals are very much concerned about the positivity rate because we do run into, you know, this is what for people who actually are tested. so were pretty confident that it would be higher because we have...

Different images in -- when youre looking at this? >> well, i -- not -- not directly. you know, honestly, the -- what -- once the vaccination rates hit the highs -- um -- of -- locally, we -- weve been able to get 70% of our local population vaccinated. we -- we returned, mostly, to normal. and so, what were seeing now is -- is -- is a steep rise amongst mostly unvaccinated patients. a few vaccinated patients are getting covid, as well. but um, were attributing that to the massive rise of delta-...

So we can know more about these breakthrough cases. do you have enough information as a scientist to know what these breakthrough cases are doing to people? >> previously we didnt. we have to admit that. early on it was to give testing to people who were in contact with people who were infected or symptomatic. now its very clear youve got to go beyond that, chuck, because we know now from experience here and other countries that you will have people who are asymptomatic who get into contact with...

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...