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Cont contagious. while the rate of people getting fully vaccinated is falling. >> yeah. the rate of new infections is now four times higher than it was just a month ago. look at all the red on that map. cases are actually rising faster right now than in the pandemics first surge last spring. its hard to believe. vaccinations are now at their lowest daily rate since the end of january, with only about 250,000 people becoming fully vaccinated per day. in some areas, the delta variant is leading to...

City and whats taking place there. advocacy of the new york city mayor. what about the issue of these breakthrough cases, does this simply add ammunition to those saying, look, that person was vaccinated but they still ended up testing positive. how do you counter that? >> i think its the exact opposite. we say, look, that person is protected from getting int intubated. that person is protected from death, getting hospitalized. those numbers are clear. and to say to those people, that person wou...

I am somewhat encouraged that we seem to be seeing an increase in covid vaccination rates over the past weeks, especially in places having a lot of resurgence with delta. unfortunately, it takes, theres two doses of the mrna vaccine, a couple weeks and you do need that second dose because delta does overwhelm a single dose only of the mrna vaccines. >> thats right. the time to go out is right now because its going to take time for that full vaccination effect to kick in. one of the big remaining...

Northeast where you have all the adults and adolescents vaccinated, the kids are probably going to do pretty well this school year. but down here in the south, you know, in houston, the school years going to begin in a few weeks. we start early. what that means is we, you know, weve got so few adolescents and young adults vaccinated and now we dont even -- were not even allowed to have mask mandates in the schools. what makes people think this is going to go well? i mean, were going to have an e...

Person who can become sick and especially hallie like you, young children at home who are not vaccinated. >> thats right. >> we do all of these things with all of these different conditions in mind. >> right, its sort of as you say literally an extra layer of protection. dr. azar, stand by for a second. breakthrough cases, antonia, thats something youre looking at, in p town, massachusetts. more than 63% of people in the state are fully vaccinated but they had a spike in cases over the last coup...

Mild or no symptoms. out of more than 160 million fully vaccinated people in the u.s., the c.d.c. says 5,500, mostly the elderly or people with underlying healthg conditions, have been hospitalized or died. norah, the c.d.c. is looking into rare cases of vaccinated people infecting not only unvaccinated people but people who have been fully vaccinated, but c.d.c. head dr. rochelle walensky emphasized to me yesterday the vaccines continued to provide exceptional protection against severe illness ...

Here is what is important. when you have a vaccine, what it does is protects you against the worst outcomes, against hospitalization and death and often prevents the majority of even mildly symptomatic cases. in the case of covid-19, were fortunate to have highly effective vaccines which is why the vast majority of people that are hospitalized and dying from covid are unvaccinated. with that said, there is a small portion of people who are vaccinated who may have what are called breakthrough cas...

>> this group weve put together are looking at all possibilities of whats happening now. and we are going to investigate every aspect of any change that could or might take place. >> the white house is not concerned about the so-called breakthrough cases, positive tests of the vaccinated, because vaccinated people dont get very sick. but unvaccinated people do. so new mask mandates may just be focused on regions with low vaccination rates. >> but we are not there yet. on a national level, there ...

Of rules. in arizona the new school year is already under way and changes are still being made to masking and quarantine rules. >> but the delta variant is being changing the game in los angeles. 20% of breakthrough cases appeared in june. they might get sick, but they are not dying. william hughes had a brush with death because he was unvaccinated after 14 days in an arkansas hospital, he wishes he had done it differently. >> basically it is just made me wish that i had gotten the vaccine. i me...

Possible is the fact that we are dealing with the most transmissible version of covid-19 that we have seen to date but the good news is the vaccine does work. it high ly effective even againt the variant but we need more people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible. >> i want to ask about the rise of the breakthrough cases. 20% of new covid cases in june were among fully vaccinated. most are mild, but not all. do you feel confident that you can tell vaccinated people not to worry if they get ...