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this is a virus that is not only more contagious but potentially more lethal. reporter: experts say vaccinations are key against protecting against future variants. if you are giving the virus a chance to change, you are leading to a vulnerability for a worse variant. that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated. reporter: the new orleans jazz fest organizers say that event will be canceled due to louisiana s surge in covid-19 cases. llucy, thank you. as i told you earlier, the cdc says nearly everyone who has been fully vaccinated, more than 99.9% of those people have not had a severe break through case of coronavirus that put them in the hospital or ended in death. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard is watching those numbers and the analysis. what do you know?
the virus can jump from person to person and lead to variants. let s talk about that because we talked so much about the delta variant, how it s changed the footing in the u.s. now officials are watching another variant, this lambda variant. tell us about this. that s right. the lambda variant has been emerging in conversations, there are about 1,000 cases identified here in the united states. but that number, victor, is still very small compared to the many cases that the delta variant has caused here in the u.s. so the lambda variant is not as of concern. the world health organization actually designates it as a variant of interest. the variants of concern, they include the alpha variant that we know originated in the uk. beta, delta, which is causing more than 83% of cases in the united states. so these are the variants of concern. the variants of interest include the lambda variant that you mentioned which was first identified in peru among other
variants of interest. overall we held from the national institutes of health director, dr. collins, he said these variants, they re watching them closely. have a listen. at nih, working with fda and cdc, we have a vigorous team that looks at every knew emerging variant to see what would its effect be in terms of the vaccine. will the vaccine work against this one? so far so good. we don t have anxieties yet about delta or lambda or any others working out there. so you see, he said they don t have anxieties yet. again, delta is the biggest concern for us in the u.s. jacqueline howard, thank you very much. let s take you to texas and the hospital in houston is so strapped for space, there s a surge of covid patients there that is now requiring them to put up tents for overflow. on top of that, texas hospitals are suffering from a severe
that message may be getting through. tonight, all 50 states now reporting more residents getting their first dose. but for this texas family, that message was too late. lawrence rodriguez, a father of four, died after a weeks long battle with the virus. his wife lydia is still on a ventilator in the icu. when she was in the intensive care unit before she went on the ventilator, she had asked the doctor if she could get vaccinated then, and he told her it was too late. one of the last things she said was to please make sure her children were vaccinated. we continue to hear those pleas from family members. janai norman joining us now from new york city. janai, we ve talked so much about the delta variant, but there s another variant health experts are also tracking tonight. reporter: yeah, whit, it s the lambda variant that s already out there. it s not new. it was first detected in south america last year. the cdc calling it a variant of interest, which means they re watching it.
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