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Has become. and going home with gold. the olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. how american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. im phil mattingly in washington in for fredricka whitfield. right now, the covid pandemic is surging in the u.s. and shows no signs of slowing down. to know how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. the average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july, the delta variant fuelling this rise in cases and overwhelming hospi...

Trends are. youve mentioned lambda. something that was detected in peru. this is something we need to keep an eye on. its a variant of interest meaning it has potential impact to you know, more transmissibility, severity of illness. so certainly these are number of variants of interest that were going to continue to keep our eye on. its going to continue to happen as more spread continues across the world. >> its the wild part about all of this is get vaccinated. not just because it keeps everyb...

New week, new COVID-19 variant.

About covid at about these cases that are rising, and the delta variant, they should be worried about some sort of lambda variant that is apparently rampant in latin america, and that will be coming across the border soon, too, so he is just a hypocrite, theyro are just usg this as another weapon of control. if they cared, they would stop those covid positive migrants pouring over the border. we are looking at, you know 2 million plus undocumented migrants coming over the border and if you even ...

Dakotas, it really is striking how bad the situation is in this country. >> it is, absolutely. the situation is very grim. the numbers have been increasing at a rate much greater than we got hit in new orleans when the pandemic first hit in 2020. for many hospitals in the state, they are at the breaking point or past the breaking point. theyre providing what we would call crisis standards of care, which is, again, so demoralizing for health care workers, when it is a preventable situation in man...

Theres no lab or clinical data yet, and thats really what we need to elevate it to variant of concern. but whether it is lambda or another variant that evolves, you know, as long as we do not fully vaccinate the rest of this country and the rest of the world we do have to have serious concerns about variants evolving. >> lets be clear right now. the most appreciating issue is the delta variant, and to dr. faucis point things are going to get worse, i mean in your mind what could that look like, ...

Are rising expect delta variant, they should have been worried about the lambda variant that apparently is rampant in latin america, and that will be coming across the border soon too. pete: you know, its not radical to give people a choice. and the word you used, will, the operative word is balance. what joe biden and the democrats have decided to do is bow in every way to dr. fauci and the health bureaucrats. whatever they sagos. jen psaki, my kid walks around in a mask at night and loves it. ...

Have the ability to fully express a mandate, stitch together close to 85% of the country vaccinated or with some immunity by infection, that might be best way to get to notion of herd immunity, but have to do it before the lambda variant can take a foothold after the delta variant. >> i guess the white house would love this to happen in some way other than federal mandate. from legal perspective, all of it will face challenge but companies seem to be on stronger footing, saying we cant endanger ...

Dr. blackstock, always good to have you on. you know, dr. fauci warned this week a more severe covid variant could emerge as the average number of daily cases now reaches 100,000 a day. he said things are going to get worse. so, dr. blackstock, were starting to hear about a new variant, the lambda variant. how worried should we be about the threat of these new potentially worse variants? >> well, joe, thank you so much for having me. as dr. fauci mentioned, when there is widespread transmission ...

Another variant called lambda, first detected in south america, now reaching the u.s. in small numbers, including texas and louisiana. early data suggests that the lambda variant might partially chip away at vaccine efficacy. but for now, lambda is not considered a variant of concern. across the country, patience with the unvaccinated is wearing thin. new jerseys governor this week blasting anti-vaccine protesters. >> youve lost your minds. you are the ultimate knuckleheads, and because of what ...