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The biden administration and many others have been putting out, which is once youre vaccinated, youre fine. and so the natural conclusion from that is why would you care if others around you are vaccinated or not? if youre protected, then why not let everybody else just do whatever they want? the fact, though, is that the unvaccinated also affect the vaccinated. if you are a vaccinated person, but youre living among a lot of unvaccinated people as elizabeth was showing in the clusters, your chan...

There is also this new research, this new analysis by researchers i should say at georgetown university, dr. rainy, they identified 30 clusters of large populations, help us understand how just a small number of these areas, these different pockets of the country put the entire country at risk. >> so there is two things. one is to remember that the way that this virus spreads is exponentially. so one infection leads to two, leads to four, leads to eight, leads to 16 and suddenly you have hundred...

Science is winning. you have 67% of american adults getting vaccinated, but unfortunately there is still a lot of vaccine opposition or hesitancy out there. you see it in various groups including the young and african-american community. but the biggest element of resistance is in the republican party. there was a shocking "the washington post," abc news poll just came out which showed that 86% of democrats surveyed had gotten the vaccine compared to only 45% of republicans. so almost a 2-1 diff...

States. but it seems to be extremely effective at preventing hospitalization and/or death. and that means the vaccine is well worth getting even against this delta strain. look, this delta strain is extremely worrisome and we have to take it extremely seriously do. >> you do. >> we saw this analysis that identifies five major clusters of unvaccinated communities around the united states. could this put people across the country as a whole at risk especially considering if the virus continues to ...

It doesnt make any sense. >> officials say theyre going to pull this off. lets bring it back home in the sense you have a situation here where people say largely covid is under control. then you get the buts, and the buts are when you look at the spikes, a study out of georgetown has identified these five clusters that are very much lagging as in vaccinations. watch at home. connect the dots here. remember where these clusters are. there are five clusters that span eight states. look at these st...

I think this was exactly the right thing. lots of athletes have been working their entire lives to compete. but without the risk of super spreader events. >> understand. dr. nguyen, stand by because i do have other questions for you. first back here at home in the u.s., 24 states are now seeing at least a 10% uptick in new covid infections. this just in the last week. why? well, its the spread of the more contagious delta variant. this morning a new analysis by georgetown university researchers ...

Clusters have just fewer than 100,000 people. while there are some cities like montgomery, alabama, or texas really what were talking about large groups of relatively small counties. so the threat to people who live there is obvious. we see it already. there are outbreaks in those areas unlike what we see in many parts of the country. heres the threat to us. coronavirus is smart and it learns by doing, learns by practicing, kind of like how we learn a sport by playing it a lot. the more they spr...

Fire, this is the kindling. this is where it is going to happen as you could see mostly in the southeast and also in to southern missouri. lets take a look at some of the demographics involved with these clusters. that is about 15 million people in those five clusters and the vaccination rate in the clusters is 28%. that is low. the national vaccination rate is 48 percent. and it is interesting, there are a few cities like montgomery, alabama, amarillo, texas, in these clusters but they have few...

Clusters together, thats 15 million people in five clusters. the average vaccination rate for the counties in these clusters is 28%. nationally its 48%. you can see thats a very significant difference. there are a few -- there are some relatively big cities in these clusters. amarillo, texas, montgomery, alabama. but 92% of the counties have fewer than 100,000 people. so these are relatively small counties for the most part, and ive spoken with public health officers in these counties. it is a c...

How concerned are folks that you speak to that this is a key turning point, or is this something more short term? >> and thats really important context. weve been setting record highs here and the s&p 500 which is probably stocks in your 401(k) probably reflects the s&p, its up 16% this year. but all these headlines today, jim, youve been rattling off here, the tokyo olympics will be under a state of emergency with no spectators. the delta variant is a real problem in some of these states, in 24...