Shouldnt Be August News Today

Vaccination. the decision comes as the united states is experiencing its biggest coronavirus surge in the last six months due to the highly contagious delta variant of the virus. yesterday the united states reported 130,808 cases. the last time it had 130,000 cases was on february 4th. heres nih director frances collins. >> this is going very steeply upward with no signs of having piqued out. i would be surprised if we dont cross 200,000 cases in a day in the next couple of weeks and thats heart...

Would no signs of having peaked out. i would be surprised if we dont cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks and, thats heartbreaking, continuing we never thought we would be back in that space again. that was january february, that shouldnt be august. >> joining us now is laurie garrett, port -- pulitzer prize winner covering the global pandemic. shes an msnbc contributor. laurie what do we know about this recommendation that will be coming according to the new york times, that we...

Thats heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be back in that space again. that was january, february. that shouldnt be august. but here we are with delta variant, which is so contagious, and this heartbreaking situation where 90 million people are still unvaccinated who are sitting ducks for this virus, and thats the mess were in. were in a world of hurt and its a critical juncture to try to do everything we can to turn that around. >> that was the director of the national institute...

January, february. that shouldnt be august. here we are with delta variant which is so contagious and the heartbreaking situation where 90 million people are still unvaccinated who are sitting ducks for this virus, thats the mess were in. were in a world of hurt and its a critical juncture to try to do everything we can to turn it around. >> that was the director of the national institutes of health, dr. frances collins warning about the possibility of the u.s. hitting 200,000 covid cases per da...