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Its impacting some people fully vaccinated. >> reporter: the headline sounds scary. more than 800 people, 20% were fully vaccinated people. they are breakthrough infections. the majority of them though were asymptommatic or very mild symptoms. very few were admitted to the hospital. very, very few deaths among this group. the headlines sound scary. the reality not quite so much. its also more evidence today out of britain that the vaccines really do work against this virus and the various varian...

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Around the world. it is wednesday, july 21st. that means were half way there. thats an important mark, right? >> 48 hours from the olympics, too. >> exactly. covid, this is the bad news, its back with a vengeance. cases are rising across the country and so are hospitalizations. the resurgence of the virus is driven by the delta variant and a stubborn resistance to vaccinations. the delta variant is now accounting for 83% of all covid cases in the u.s. and in some states it is north of that. near...

Among communities with low vaccination rates. the cdc director today saying we are now witnessing a pandemic of the unvaccinated. cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all on the rise. but tonight, there is also concern over the danger this poses to children soon going back to school. 12 and under have not been vaccinated. and for these rare breakthrough cases, people testing positive even after they have been fully vaccinated. dr. fauci asked about this today, and dr. jha is right here tonight an...

Do you believe this was able to move through the camp because of the delta variant? you heard the professor saying the variant is more than 10 times more contagious than the original coronavirus. >> we believe this is the delta variant. we have now, actually, since we talk earlier, were probably up to 160 cases that have been confirmed. we were able to do some typing preliminary on some of the cases, and the three tests we got back on those preliminary things we got back from last week are posit...

But nbc news has heard back from 27 states so far, and we tallied 66,000 breakthrough cases. thats just a small fraction of the vaccinated lester >> all right, miguel, thank you. president biden weighing in today about vaccine misinformation on platforms like facebook, saying theyre killing people and provoking a strong denial from facebook gabe gutierrez has more on the information disconnect >> reporter: in tipton county, tennessee, just north of memphis, vaccine skepticism runs deep. >> i fee...

Weap weaponized. missouris attorney general vows an immediate lawsuit to block protocols for st. louis. republicans want to stop the insanity to protect free people. dr. matthew is a primary care physician and public health specialist. dr. matthew, thanks for joining us. i want to ask you about breakthrough cases. we keep hearing about them particularly with the olympics. th athletes have tested positive even after being vaccinated. put into context what this could mean for us. >> breakthrough i...

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Were getting new numbers in this morning. well bring you the latest on that later on. lets begin with the coronavirus pandemic. there are a lot of new developments across the country. were beginning to see more of those breakthrough cases. people who are already vaccinated testing positive. in california, los angeles county reimposing an indoor mask mandate this saturday. in response to the rapidly spreading delta variant. and in mississippi today, six children are hospitalizeded with the virus....

Im also hopeful -- i dont want another surge in cases to occur in order to drive people to get vaccinated, but sometimes it is that really immediate fear that drives folks to chactually showp and get the vaccine. were seeing it. were seeing changing messaging from some politicians and media figures saying, go get a vaccine, dont put yourself and your community at risk. we may start to see a shift in vaccination numbers in those hard-hit communities right now. >> a lot of questions people have re...