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Now overnight, guidance for the house and senate that theyre going to have increased mask requirements once again. axios warning white house staff now going to be required to wear a mask inside, and of course were seeing that cross the country, across the world. and the axios health care experts stepped back to say why are we doing this, and heres the simplest way to say it. were trying to save the unvaccinated from themselves, that the effort to reduce the chance that someone who is vaccinated ...

>> the basic point is everybody right, left and center with the exception of the far left feels isolated in modern american society. you say the wrong thing you get wished into the cornfield. there will be blowback to that. every american institution has been taken over by the left. the people from the left dont like this but focus on members of the right. they dont like it when you actually take note of the fact that serious institutions with serious power to wield against americans are using t...

Just incredible numbers of patients but we have never seen this cadence that speaks to the delta variant. its more contagious, spreading throughout community too fast and mitigation measures just arent out there right now. >> the patients, whats the vaccination status of most of the patients you are seeing? >> almost wholly unvaccinated. we are seeing some breakthrough cases, but if you look at everybody under the age of 50 and i say that again because under the age of 50 should be rare in the h...

School now, theyre recommending that everyone in k through 12 schools mask up indoors. teachers, staff, students and visitors, regardless of your vaccination status. this is to protect everyone. but the cdc tonight saying above all else, get vaccinated, because they say this remains a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and dr. walensky saying we wouldnt be in this situation now had the vaccination rate been higher, saying she fears the next variant, which could be even stronger, and one that could re...

The delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others. >> reporter: the cdc is now actively investigating breakthrough cases among the fully vaccinated, while offering new warnings about the delta variant mainly being spread by the millions who remain unvaccinated. >> the delta variant is showing every day its willingness to outsmart us. the big concern is that the next variant that might emerge just a few mutations potentially away could evade our vaccines. >> rep...

Vaccine hesitancy than anyone out there because of these heavy-handed tactics, the blame game, the vilification, the demonization, your thoughts? >> think at think youre right, i think that the problem is the have no imagination, and they dont really think about whats going on and how to solve it. theyre working on a premise that they didnt do enough in the first place, they will just be the same, but more so now, and that is a failed idea, and really, we have the tools to fi it, we just need to...

Sgla let >> let us go back to kaitlan. you were asking about the clusters we have seen say in places like cape cod? >> reporter: theres two things she just expanded on there is how rigorously are they monitoring the breakthrough cases. thats when someone fully vaccinated test positive for coronavirus and we are seeing more of that because of the highly contagious delta variant. people have heard accounts of friends fully vaccinated testing positive. its raising questions because how rigorously h...

Va variant. this is a highly contagious virus. were still talking about mask mandates and we did it last year. it only takes two shots, three to four weeks ag part, and yet fewer than 50% of people in this country have gotten it. it is normally frustrating to me. >> can you clarify the risks? we talked a lot about breakthrough cases and i think they are very frightening. how relative is your risk comparatively speaking? >> i think the term breakthrough should be reserved for those that despite b...

>> whats happening right now, were looking at studies that include ones in israel, which was where the first data was reported for the pfizer vaccine, indicating there may be a need for a booster. this work is ongoing right now to understand when a booster might be necessary. also, the delta variant poses some really very unique challenges. youve been hearing a lot of the discussion about the breakthrough infections and what does that mean. and i think youre going to hear more information forthc...

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...