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the situation room. we begin this hour with america s covid-19 emergency. cnn national correspondent erika hill is following all the new developments. the aggressive delta variant is now more dominant than ever and rapidly infecting people who are unvaccinated. what can you tell us? reporter: that s absolutely right. the numbers here don t lie, jim. in fact, some 22%, nearly 73 million people in this country, 22% of the population, live in a county that s considered to have high transmission. what we know is the lower the vaccination rate in many areas, the more we are going to see some of these surges fueled by the delta variant. that is prompting new cause for concern, new calls for new americans to get vaccinated and also more concern that maybe some americans may never get the shot. dreams of a covid free summer turning to a nightmare. the delta variant now
the world in the middle of a pandemic into a country where only 12% of the country is vaccinated and the numbers have been rising as you know. so there has been a lot of concern, jim. you know, not surprisingly, 80% of people who were polled here in japan said that they would prefer that the olympics not happen here at this time for those reasons. we ll see. competition actually begins wednesday morning, your time later on tonight here. the opening ceremonies at the end of the week. we ll see what happens. we haven t been told any specific criteria that would sort of force the decision one way tested posipositive, people thae somehow associated with these games. sanjay, many of the covid cases are reporting no symptoms. what does that tell you? i think this is going to be a really interesting point and something that we may all learn from as a world. these so-called breakthrough infections. you keep in mind that we know in the united states, for example, if you re vaccinated, peopl
them, jeffrey mckeller, a retired u.s. special forces officer. he s wearing a helmet, gas mask, a kevlar vest with a patch that looks like the country of georgia. he launches at an officer, pepper spray and launches into the crowd. in this video, the female officer who he attacked is seen grabbing her face in pain, being helped by other officers. in this clip, watch the officer in white. officials say this is mckeller hitting a d.c. police captain in the head with a flag pole. the captain was cut near his left eye. these battles took place in the inauguration staging area outside the capitol, the scene of some of the most violent combat that day and where the police line eventually collapsed. the man who officials say attacked the officers so viciously served in the army for
analyst, dr. wen, an emergency physician and former baltimore city health commissioner. andy, the delta variant is so worrisome right now and accounts for more than 80% of cases in the u.s. that s staggering. are you surprised at how quickly this variant has drastically changed the country s progress in the fight against this pandemic? it feels like we are going backwards. well, it does in some senses and in other senses it is very different in 2020. the big difference is we now have a tool. and for anybody who chooses to use the tool, for people over 12 that is, it offers a remarkable layer of protection. as we see in the data in israel and england, cases are rising now again from delta. hospitalizations and deaths really are not. and that link is really important if it is indeed different in the u.s. so for people who are unvaccinated, this is a very serious year. and if you live around a lot of