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Coronavirus. nbcs mike memoli in traverse, city, michigan, where we saw the president last hour. that felt like a very quick first stop. >> reporter: yeah, thats right, lindsey. the president has a full day here in the upper michigan peninsula area, and it very much feels, as you were talking to cal a few moments ago who reminded us that president trump spent the fourth of july last year at mount rushmore. do you remember where then-candidate joe biden was on the fourth of july? he was home in d...

Whole, some 10 million people 12 and over who are still unvaccinated. thats who theyre targeting. if you want a sense of the difference between how this disease hits the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, contra costa county is now breaking out the cases. and the case rate among unvaccinated people, nearly 9 cases per 100,000 residents are infected, whereas with the unvaccinated it is 0.7 cases. so you can see the difference in why they want to get more and more people into clinics like this on...

For his statements. he will find working with the nhs and social care staff both inspirational and rewarding. i hope you will agree and make arrangements for them to receive a fair pay rise and not the real terms pay cut that is currently penciled in. now, today, he let it be known thatjuly the 19th reopening will effectively go ahead. he told the news this morning that there is no going back, that lifting restrictions will be irreversible. well, i wear to the wise, mr deputy speaker, ive respon...

Understand the first minister response. almost about deflecting it. we havent done anything. we are on the receiving end of a ban here thatis on the receiving end of a ban here that is a make a great deal of sense to us. i dont see how this is my problem before anything that we have done here. is it problem before anything that we have done here. , . done here. is it the way in which it is been done _ done here. is it the way in which it is been done rather _ done here. is it the way in which it...

Has recorded 14 in the latest 24—hour period, up from 11 in the 24—hour period, up from 11 in the 24—hour period, up from 11 in the 24—hour period ending on friday. cumbrias director of public health is colin cox. when we look at the surge testing in cumbria, outlined for us how it will work and is it targeted, are there specific areas that are of major concern? it specific areas that are of maor concern? , . , ., ., concern? it is targeted but not at secific concern? it is targeted but ...

About how the testing will work. it is targeted but not at specific areas. cumbria has seen the case rate rising by a factor of ten since the beginning ofjune. about seven cases per 100,000 at the end of may and now about 70 per 100,000, so a fairly substantial and exponential rise. the biggest number of cases have been in the younger age groups, 12—13 —year—olds. we are not targeting by area but we are urging anyone between 12 and 30 to get a test. we are working with schools to see if we...

These younger age groups is a simple one. we know they are less likely to get sick. we know they are less likely to get infected. theres still a risk there but its a lower risk. how do you then balance that with the authorization. what is the level of evidence youre going to need given that their risk is lower. thats an important discussion thats going to happen. you remember with the 12-year-old to 15-year-olds, look, it works for 16-year-old plus. its going to pretty much be the same in this a...

Were to have a 40 to 50% transmission advantage, which you say it probably does have, it is likely that progressing with step three alone on the 17th of may would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations, similar to or larger than previous peaks. progressing with both steps three and four at the earliest date could lead to a much larger peak. you think they are wrong. that is a few weeks ago and we have more data since then. the thing were watching incredibly carefully is of course t...

Outbreaks like what happened last year. no matter what happens, is likely we will have a major outbreak. >> laura: dr. bhattacharya, i noticed caught your eye. one of faucis e-mails was where he claimed that the covid mortality rate was about 2% and that for the flu, was .1%. that covid thats great! turned out to be way off, correct? >> he made a rookie mistake. he conflated the case rate with the -- many, many more times where people with infectious of covid were caught, especially back then. t...

And possibly 500 who died from this infection. we had this notionnentialally this was just a disease of older people. this is not true. >> joining me now to discuss is a professor of emergency med sp at oregon health and science. good to see you. how concerned are you about this spike in hospitalizations among young people even though 24% of kids in that age bracket have received at least one dose? >> yeah, its concerning and we have to remember now there are two experiences with covid-19 in thi...