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Officials. joining us now, the dean of brown university school of public health. doctor, welcome back. >> good morning, chris. thanks for having me here. >> chris: so lets start with where we are in this most recent delta wave of the covid pandemic. we are now averaging more than 160,000 new cases a day in this country, more than 1500 deaths a day, and more than 100,000 people in this country are in hospitals. but doctor, the upward curve, the sharp upward curve has flattened out a little bit of...

Close quarters. a lot of the stadiums dont have strict covid protocols, if any. no masking, testing or vaccine requirements. >> something to consider. joining me is founding director with the national center for disaster preparedness and msnbc public analyst. welcome back to the broadcast. former fda commissioner scott gotley warned the labor day weekend could mean a spike in cases. listen to what he said. >> i think our true delta wave will start to build after labor day here in northeast and t...

States now. so it is not a problem when you have things in check like in new england for example which is the best region of the country that has been vaccinated. but when you have so much virus, pulling out all the stops may not be enough. so well get through this delta wave in the weeks ahead, were just starting to turn the corner. and when we get down to lower levels, then we can get back to opening the schools, hopefully getting more embracement of masks and getting vaccinations and eventual...

More parents want their kids to have an online option and that number has increased recently but many schools, they arent offering it anymore. are we going to have to change the way that schools are run going forward to account for endemic covid or the next mutation? >> its an important point youre getting at. how can you force schools to open when you have high circulating levels as weve seen with kids in kentucky and georgia and many of the southern states now. so its not a problem when you ha...

Officials. joining us now, the dean of brown university school of public health. doctor, welcome back. >> good morning, chris. thanks for having me here. >> chris: so lets start with where we are in this most recent delta wave of the covid pandemic. we are now averaging more than 160,000 new cases a day in this country, more than 1500 deaths a day, and more than 100,000 people in this country are in hospitals. but doctor, the upward curve, the sharp upward curve has flattened out a little bit of...

If you look at the last three months average of jobs. its right at 832,000 jobs that we have been able to add. this shows its going be steady road to recovery. you see the economy moving ahead. >> reporter: still a lot of questions about whether this is the right time to be cutting off the benefits right as the delta wave is cresting in so many state. the september 6th date was pick ed arbitrarily before the delta surge. theres a lot of concern about trends holding especially with the jobs repor...

There are folks two days ago who decided to get vaccinated and three days ago and four days ago and woke up this morning and wanted to get vaccinated, almost a million of them. and the polling shows the amount of people that are going to definitely not get the vaccine is now at the lowest level. very encouraging. its gone down to only 20%. even when it feels like the situation is just overwhelming and defeating, also remember there are people on the ground every day doing the crucial work and th...

Its important to remember this. every day, in this country, we are vaccinating an average of more than 900,000 people which means there are folks two days ago who decided to get vaccinated and three days ago and four days ago and woke up this morning and wanted to get vaccinated. almost a million of them. there are people coming to this day by day and day. the polling shows the amount of people that will definitely not get the vaccine is at its lowest level. its gone down to only 20%. even when ...

This will be a highly regionalized epidemic. i do think that labor day and the republican to school will be incubators for spread that will lead to the delta wave. i dont think were done with this. i hope we are. i dont think we can conclude that just because the cases are coming down from the mini surge that we saw over the summer. >> now this is the biggest test yet for the american public, the biden administration, all levels of government to have a way to have a safe and thriving winter. let...

Take precautions over the next couple of months while the delta variant moves through the population. i think children should be wearing masks in schools, schools should be implementing other mitigation, like social pods, encourage testing and children staying at home if they have symptoms of covid and get testing. a lot of districts are using screening testing effectively on a weekly or biweekly basis. so theres a lot of things we can be doing. were going to see infection levels decline across ...