Until at least october, and a growing number of major retailers mandating customers wear masks in their stores nationwide, walmart really leading the way, enforcing the policy starting today. Also, Delta Airlines is starting another screening process for passengers who cannot wear a mask on board for health reasons. Theyre even asking those passengers to consider not traveling at all. As for the president , he is not just standing by his response, his more than 140,000 americans have died from covid19, he is once again in a new interview downplaying the severity of the pandemic. Well get to that in a moment. Lets begin in the state of georgia which saw a weekend of record cases. Dianne gallagher joins us from atlanta. Good morning, dianne. Reporter good morning, poppy. Look, things are going in the wrong direction all across the country right now. 31 states are seeing an increase in their new cases of covid19, and the u. S. Passed the 140,000 mark when it comes to deaths since the star
Kingdom on its vaccine candidate so this, a study was done in more than 1,000 healthy adults ages 18 to 55 and it looked, you know, at how the vaccine really worked, you know, in those subjects. It found that the vaccine did induce an antibody response and a tcell response, so it means that the vaccine did do what we want it to do, it did elicit and i mun response. We need to see how thatvaccine would work in older results, but its pressing promises. Can i ask you what probably sounds like a dumb question but youre the Health Expert not me, and that is how are they going to know how long a vaccine is going to last and how long it will be effective, right . How long will it take them to know if this vaccine would prove out like an mmr vaccine, kids get it and it will last for their life or a flu vaccine that we have to get every year . Right, and thats whats being studied right now, so as these trials continue, they will really look at what dosage is required and will this be something