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Tangible every single day. but when you talk to white house officials they make clear they want the focus to be on domestic issues. and number one is the coronavirus pandemic. they understand both from a public health perspective but also from an economic perspective their success is directly tied to their success in handling and managing the coronavirus. its what they thought what the most successful element leading into this summer. and the numbers seem to back that up, both on the polling sid...

Schools opened already and already one in five districts have closed at some point due to case counts, quarantines, or just lack of staff. >> we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital battling covid, in the icu battling for their lives. >> reporter: and theyre overwhelmingly unvaccinated. south carolina has among the lowest vaccination rates in the country and the highest infection rate. >> well have another uptick with the universities opening up. well have a further uptick with th...

Sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires? ♪ welcome to a special edition of "the lead." im erica hill in for jake tapper. we start today with our health lead. new concerns on this labor day that the long holiday weekend could worsen the coronavirus surge in the u.s. despite travel warnings from the cdc, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway. college football is back with tens of thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums and some of the last distri...

Everything i see supports the fact that delta is the number one variant on the block and will stay that way. it is highly infectious. while were watching closely south africa, i had to suggest like real estate, location, location, location, this pandemic is about delta, delta, delta. >> im curious how we should take this. if you look at our case counts, it looks like were beginning to plateau. are we? or are we starting to reach peaks? >> we are definitely hitting a plateau in the southern state...

A third of the counties have no open icu beds. think about whats happened in louisiana. the fact that we had so many patients in the path of the storm is a consequence of having nowhere to move them. all the hospitals in the south are filled with patients. and this is what were seeing. this is the aftermath. >> you mentioned louisiana. i mean, it is seeing when you look at the stats, the highest case counts per capita in the country. and medical staff we learned because of the storm, theyre havi...

Approval numbers for biden on these two issues. look at this 100 days into his presidency, nearly 70% of voters approved of how biden was handling the coronavirus. and look at this by a 52-43 margin they approved of the way he was handling the economy. now things have changed on both of these issues. heres the assessment of biden on covid. its down to just 53/44 approval. 42 points positive to just nine. and on the economy its flipped up side down. more disapprove than approve of it. i think the...

Facilities. weekly covid-19 case counts r counts were used to evaluate vaccine effectiveness over time. these data indicate it declined over time from 75% in march to 53% as recently as august 1st, 2021. this represents a substantial decline in vaccine infection among those most vulnerable, including during months when delta was the most predominant circulating variant. taken together, you can see while the kpak percentage of vaccine effectiveness over time differs depending on the cohort, the d...

Weekly covid-19 case counts were used to evaluate vaccine effectiveness overtime. these data demonstrate that vaccine effectiveness declined overtime from 75% in march to 53% as recently as august 1st, 2021. this is a substantial decline in vaccine effectiveness against infection among those most vulnerable including during months where delta was the predominant circulating variant. taken together, you can see that while the exact percentage of vaccine effectiveness overtime differs on the cohor...

Say. >> ive heard from other friends whose childrens teachers are out. so its definitely very concerning that we have that high number of staff in our school who are clearly ill. we dont want our children to have an interruption in their education. its hard enough to learn in this environment as it is. >> reporter: again, a lot of concern here in the state of florida. across the state in palm beach county, we understand that on day two of the return to school, some 440 students there were placed...

Largely in the south, already sent home back to virtual school. why? exposure and/or high case counts where they live. >> masking is i think a lot of us would say something pretty small that we can do in order to prevent all of these negative consequences. >> reporter: nearly 99% of the u.s. population lifts in counties where people should be wearing masks indoors according to new cdc guidance. meantime, more than 75,000 people are now in the hospital fighting the virus. look at that line climb ...