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Turning to the politics lead now, president biden is applauding recent progress on the pandemic, downplaying the fact that the u.s. didn't meet his goal of vaccinating 70% of all adults by july 4th. the u.s. was at 67% of adults with at least a single dose on the 4th. tomorrow the focus turns to getting that number even higher. cnn's bill mattingly has more from the white house. >> reporter: for the white house, on the heels of its first major in-person's vent. >> my fellow americans, it's the most patriotic thing you can do. please, if you haven't gotten vaccinated, do it. do it now. >> repor...

Get this vaccine? so really, the ground game, john, has just begun. we need to go to barber sshops d primary care physicians and dispel the myths. >> i thought dr. scott gottlieb was trying to dispel one of them by saying developed quickly in the trump administration. if you're a conservative, the vaccine work was done during the trump administration. one of the few things they can brag about when it comes to covid. if you look at the delta variant, the red parts and orange parts of the map where the tell a is over 50% of the cases here. if you're reluctant to get a vaccine, listen to dr. anth...

Lag contact point by several weeks. what we're seeing and picking up a week ago is well likely some of the spillover from the memorial day weekend and following. anybody that's unvaccinated, springfield, missouri saw surges and are still dealing with a surge, and other parts of the country are going to mimic that, as shannon mentioned. >> the dividing lines between communities where vaccination rates are higher compared to those that aren't are starting to show in a sharper way. dr. fauci was on "meet the press" the other day. chuck asked him about the 10,000 people who died in the month of ju...

Covid. if you're protected just like you were vaccinated if you had covid. >> we'll dig deeper into the pockets of the country in a second with dr. khan. but dr. del rio, the majority of people who are dying are unvaccinated. here is biden adviser dr. fauci and what he said about this. >> well, if you look at the number of deaths, about 99.2% of them are unvaccinated, about 0.8% are vaccinated. no vaccine is perfect. but when you talk about the avoid ability of hospitalization and deaths, chuck, it is really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventible. >> 99.2% are at l...

About 0.8 % are vaccinated. it's really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable. >> we know, doctor, this delta variant is nasty. it is more contagious. there are many who believe it's more deadly. 99.2% of the deaths in recent days and weeks among the unvaccinated. could there be a more powerful motivator? >> not really. i can't think of anything else. over 99% of people that are die as we speak right now are people that have not gotten vaccinated. ultimately, this is the way to think about it. whether you like it or not, you are going to have an encounter with the...