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Tokyo, the focus in japan is on delivering a successful olympic games. >> the world's greatest athletes, including japan's naomi osaka have two goals, win a medal, and dodge the virus. tokyo reporting a spike in covid cases. more than 1,300 new infections. skateboarder, naja houston says so far he's enjoying his sport's first olympics. >> it's better than what i expected. we have to be safe and take precautions because of covid, but it's amazing to be here. >> reporter: around the city, venues are preparing for an olympics like no other, making sure athletes are safe. here in the men's locker ...

This pandemic together, so in your estimation, where are we right now? >> well, we are in an area of uncertainty, but i would like to, i think, add a context to a lot of the comments. people are worried about, we got to get vaccinated now for the fall. you know, i don't know that the fall is going to be it. i think it could be right now. for the first time in the pandemic, we're seeing cases increase substantially in all 50 states. surely less in the midwest and upper northeast, but we're actually seeing right now 42 states have had over 100% increase in cases in the last two weeks. this varia...

Kids together, but with an extraordinary series of health and safety measures which kept covid levels very low in new york city public schools when we didn't have any vaccination. what we're going to do is do a blitz to get kids vaccinated who are eligible 12 and up, against the backdrop of 10 million vaccination doses around the city. a whole different ball game than where we were last year. we want our kids back in school. >> mike barnicle. >> mr. mayor, you're absolutely right, kids all over this country have been through a lot. loss of education, loss of an element of their future over the...

Protected or not get vaccinated and run the risk of being hospitalized in intensive care or even dying, and even last but not least because we can't vaccinate our kids right now, you want to bubble those kids as much as you can. don't bring the virus home, and infect one of your kids. i know of personal experiences where adults have brought the vie viruses home, the kids have gotten infected and become seriously ill. you don't want that to happen. doctor, mike barnicle has a question for you. mike. >> doctor, as you just artfully described we are dealing with the delta variant. the globe is de...

100 million. there are 100 million americans right now who are not vaccinated or who have not had covid yet and developed their own immunity. some of these are obviously kids that can't be vaccinated yet. it gives you an idea how many people left for this virus to infect. we need all the help we can get. right now, we really have three different groups of people in this country with regard to vaccine. the vaccine affirmative, people like myself who couldn't wait to get the vaccine. then we have the vaccine hesitant, people who really are thinking about it. they want to get it, but they still h...