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Texas will also bring in medical personnel from outside the state to help treat COVID-19 patients, according to a press release from the governor's office.

Texas will also bring in medical personnel from outside the state to help treat COVID-19 patients, according to a press release from the governor's office.

Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday a series of actions the State of Texas is taking to mitigate the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Texas.

In the nba, a reluctance among the athletes, of course, its their right not to get the vaccine, but again so many people take their cues from the huge sports stars. >> yeah. you know, lamar jackson is a tremendous quarterback, athlete, no doubt about that. but hes not a team guy because he has just proven hes not a team guy. the national football league has a rigid policy on vaccines, they urge all players to get vaccines, i think something like 75% of all the teams in the nfl have a pretty good...

He plans to open antibody infusion centers. those will treat the covid patients who may not necessarily have to spend days in a hospital freeing up additional space. those centers should be opening up shortly, and those people can get treated there to give space to those who need it most here. also, there is a mobile vaccine program that the states making available, where a group of five or more people can contact the state and then health care workers they can vaccinate. if you get a vaccinatio...

Lockdown and that triggered angry riots. but the worst is sydney, sydney and new south wailles reporting 291 new locally transmitted cases. so how did it come to this especially in a country that has been hailed as a pandemic success story? from the chair of epidemiology at deacon university in melbourne -- >> the methods we used so successfully to keep returning to covid zero in ace trail i cant while we were trying to roll out our vaccine program have now been defeated by this delta variant. i...

Variant is. and so really we may have to get vaccination numbers up very high as we do with diseases like chickenpox and measles. and the 90 to 95% coverage range. so were really pushing for everyone to get vaccinated. >> so youre saying herd immunity is now going to be much tougher to reach? it has to be 90 to 95% of the population vaccinated or immune because theyve had maybe a previous infection is the other way to have the immunity as well. thats important to note. israel, we are starting to...

Quarantine.ing u can me you can come and see friends. you can come as a tourist. if youve been double vaccinated. >> reporter: its a remarkable turnaround. just two weeks ago, england was looking at a huge spike in infections, but it turned out to be thanks to soccer fans crowding together to watch the european championship. when that ended, covid cases plummeted. and englands highly successful vaccine program, with more than 70% of adults now fully immunized, means deaths and hospitalizations r...

We have known all along that maybe six months or eight months the vaccines may not be as effective, and that is why there is a discussion of boosters, and some what you are hearing today is that in fact we have learn more about these breakthrough infections occur. the data from israel shows that as time goes on, they are likely to increase. nothing to consider here as a fundamental change in what has been happening. the one exception would be just the fact that those who are now infected and are...

Politicians and pundits on the right issuing pro-vaccine messages, is a conspiracy theory, a fake conspiracy theory. explain. >> i think every governor or almost every republican governor for months has had the same view, which is we have this great vaccine program and we urge all of you to come and get it. donald trump himself, who the media generally says is a cult leader to conservatives, has routinely boasted i think validly about the job that his government did in delivering a vaccine more ...