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Which shows that from may to june 6, as the delta virus spread in israel, the vaccines efficacy against all infections dropped substantially from 95.3% to 64%. and this is a very important "but" here, efficacy against severe illness and hospitalization did remain high, going from 97% to still-high 93%. so people were not getting hospitalized, were not getting a bad, very serious version of the illness, of the infection, but more people were getting infected. the spread of the coronavirus is on t...

Southeast. average vaccination rate in the counties in these clusters is 28%. national vaccination rate is 48%. so as you can see, that is a big difference. and it is interesting, there are some cities like montgomery, alabama or amarillo, texas, however 92% of the counties in these clusters have fewer than 100,000 people. so obviously these clusters are a problem for the people who live there. but they are also a problem for people who dont live there even if they are vaccinated. and here is wh...

Waning immunity from its vaccine and thats a big worry given the aggressive spread of the delta variant. the drug maker saying it will seek authorization for a third dose, a third dose. but in an unusual joint statement after pfizers announcement, the cdc and fda pushing back saying americans who are fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time. and that a rigorous process is already under way to determine if boosters might be necessary. that as the biden administration urges more am...

Middle of their most dire days. >> the competition for beds is higher now than it was during the peak last year. >> vaccines are effective against delta, the unvaccinated are fueling a spike with a third of adult americans not yet acknowledge alighted. researchers at georgetown say these five under vaccinated clusters of the country could become a breeding ground for new variants. putting the rest of the nation at risk. >> pfizer says it intends to request emergency use authorization for the boo...

But clearly people arent hermits. theyre interacting with each other, and thats why were seeing the virus spread so rapidly. it is among the unvaccinated. those are the people i see in the hospital. >> and, you know, people cant just look at those clusters and say, well, thats them. im vaccinated, right? i mean the unvaccinated, as one doctor put it, are factories for variants, which could put even the vaccinated at risk, right? >> i mean thats right. were all in this together as you can see bas...

That is county seeing 100 plus cases a week for 100,000 people. cases where you have a case count growing, watch the middle of the country. why? this is the cdcs map about current community transmission. here red is bad. you see the red in the same area where the blue was bad in terms of the cases. red out here and in the west. this is high community transmission. and you see the yellow is moderate. theres a lot of moderate to high community transadministration right now in the cdc linking it to...

Decision, apparently, for so many people and how to fix that. >> yeah. i dont know how the world came to this. i mean, i wouldnt ever have an accountant take out an appendix. they do great accounting but i dont think anybody would want an operation from them. and i dont know why people think they should get their medical management advice from politicians, rather than physicians. it didnt used to be that way just a few years ago. clearly, things have changed a lot. everybody, supposedly, has bec...

When you look at the rise in cases, the clusters, we may not have a national problem, but we do have a regional problem. >> exactly. i think when -- people like to talk about when will -- when will we reach herd immunity. the better way to think about it is to think about community immunity, places like vermont, you know, where 80% of adults are vaccinated. but in other parts, community immunity is a long way off, and with more transmissible variants, the virus will be veryive there. were seeing...

Evenly around the country, you know, we might be able to protect them. those of us who are vaccinated might be able to protect them. but that is not the case. they are clustered together which means they could be very easily spreading this virus to each other because they are clustered together. so georgetown university has been following the vaccination rollout since december and theyve tracked clusters. lets take a look at the five most significant clusters that they found. as you can see from...

Joining us now is cnn medical analyst dr. lena wen, and "the washington post" columnist max boot who wrote a piece this week saying republicans are to blame for the country not reaching president bidens vaccination goal. great to see both of you. dr. wen, these clusters elizabeth just showed us, obviously they increase the urgency of vaccinations, and you say it might be time for president biden to mandate vaccinations. i can only imagine the cry particularly from republicans if that were to hap...