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Get vaccination rates high enough, that would make us more safe from the evolution of yet more lethal, yet more scary variants. but if vaccination doesnt reduce the amount of virus in our noses, if vaccination doesnt prevent us from being able to pass infection to other people, is it still true, should we still understand thatt proportion of the population is our best path toward heading off the prospect of the lambda variant or other, even scarier variants that might emerge frome this virus, in...

Wealthy nations eye booster shots while poor countries lack even first doses. That’s a recipe for rising deadly variants everywhere.

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 louisianas surge in covid-19 cases. >> llucy, thank you. ...

The virus can jump from person to person and lead to variants. >> lets talk about that because we talked so much about the delta variant, how its changed the footing in the u.s. now officials are watching another variant, this lambda variant. tell us about this. >> thats 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 c...

Variants of interest. overall we held from the national institutes of health director, dr. collins, he said these variants, theyre 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 dont have anxieties yet about delta or lambda or any others working out there. >> so you see, he said they dont ...

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 s...

Mou mountain communities and shelters who are coming here, donating their time and compassion to these evacuees. >> its so important, the volunteer element. keep that in mind when looking at how to help out west. i appreciate your time. thank you very much for sharing that context. for more information on how to help the wildfire victims, visit cnn.com/impact. still to come, a new warning from dr. anthony fauci. get vaccinated or a new variant could be even worse than delta and could be on the...

The u.s. is now averaging more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. for context, we have not seen numbers this high since february according to data from johns hopkins. this comes after new infections sank just seven weeks ago. its the delta variant thats fuelling the surge in cases and hospitalizations and death. almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. dr. fauci says as long as we remain unvaccinated, future variants could come. >> but if you give the virus a chance to continue to cha...

If youre unwilling to get vaccinated and youre spreading this virus, it fills up hospitals and takes a bed away for people who are a heart attack or stroke or have another need. it can cause death in ways that arent directly related to covid. then my other piece is about the economic resurgence. we have an economy on fire in kentucky. 1800 new jobs in the last two weeks. the only thing thats going to keep us from reaching a bigger potential than i ever knew was possible is if we cant combat this...

Probably a few more weeks out from the peek of the current surge were in. >> to what may be coming, at this point in time, everybodys focused on delta, but experts are closely following the lambda variant, which has been identified in the states. a variant not nearly as worrisome as delta, but studies suggest it could be more transmissible than the original strain of coronavirus. does the fact there are so many different variants emerging mean that covid-19 is basically here to stay and were jus...