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Time. antonia, to you now and the tourist destination of providencetown, massachusetts, recommended a mask advisory after seeing a disturbing rise in covid cases. what more do we know about that? >> reporter: thats right, kendis, so province town is now one of a number of communities that are strengthening their mask guidance and mandates. here we have a mask advisory but there are mandates in place from st. louis to l.a., new orleans. the situation here in provincetown stems out of an outbreak ...

Back on a local mask mandate issued in st. louis, tweeting this, the citizens of st. louis and st. louis county are not subjects. they are free people. as their attorney general, ill be filing suit monday to stop this insanity. how concerned are you when youve got a leading law enforcement official who says, "this is insanity"? >> it is so incredibly frustrating. you know, as someone who has been a physician for 20 years, just trying to take care of people, what about the freedoms of those peopl...

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...

Their own loved ones because they are in the hospital. >> and we know most of those who are hospitalized with covid-19 are unvaccinated. but there is a new concern for people who are fully vaccinated and those are these break through cases we are seeing where youre fully vaccinated but youre still testing positive for coronavirus. so should people be concerned about these break through cases and how often are they happening? >> its hard to tell how many breakthrough cases we have had in the outp...

And now were seeing about 69% of those cases are breakthrough cases, people who got their shots and hoped to be protected. and so the good news is that these cases are mild or asymptomatic. havent seen a spike in hospitalizations. but that doesnt mean people arent concerned or upset because this is a tourist town. they hoped to host people here safely all summer, and now theyre fearful that unvaccinated people are going to come here and put their health but also their businesses that theyve foug...

There are a growing number of so-called breakthrough cases, cases where people who are fully vaccinated are now testing positive. some getting sick. heres vaughn hillyard with why its happening and what you should know. >> reporter: the headlines unexpected. seven vaccinated stanford students positive for covid. six vaccinated texas democrats traveling together, positive. hundreds of cape cod residents and vacationers, vaccinated but positive. >> these are headlines that make us stop and think, ...

The cameras arent around. now, that doesnt mean the numbers we show you all day every day arent accurate. we have every reason to believe the cdc is putting out the most reliable information possible on the spread of coronavirus, the variants and the vaccines positive impact in this country. which is why we are baffled at some of the administrations responses this week, like when press secretary jen psaki, whom you just saw talking about transparency, discussed the white house not requiring all ...

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...

Because doctor fauci doesnt accept the fact that many of them have already had it naturally so he just doesnt count there immunity and says we got to push on and push on but it is him not engage in remembering or presenting the science as it should be and long past time we sent him to another location far away from the seats of power. laura: in tennessee theres a piece today and they reported 1000 breakthrough cases with people who have been fully vaccinated of covid and the doctor reporting on ...

Numbers here. according to the ap poll, 45% of unvaccinated people say they definitely will not get the vaccine. 35% say they probably will not. 65% say they have little to no faith that the vaccine will work on the variants, which health officials have confirmed that it does and is effective against. alex? >> it is extraordinary, those numbers, probably as a result of the misinformation thats out there. but thank you for trying to correct it. were going to do that even further now. joining me...