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Are saving lives at a critical time. they are needed more than ever. just look at the numbers now for this labor day versus last year. you're looking at a 300% increase in the 7-day average of new cases. meantime several icus near or at full capacity. the u.s. is now reporting an average of 1500 covid deaths a day. nearly all of those patients and deaths were unvaccinated. let's begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. bottom line here the data, the science, the boosters, science will dictate the date for the rollout. what is the data showing? >> erica, a lot of this data i...

Logically about it. >> do you think eight months should be a hard and fast marker? what about people planning to travel six months after their second shot? is that not a good enough reason to get a booster, that third shot? >> well, i think we have to look at the data showing when immunity actually wanes. and we actually haven't seen certainly very little published data. it's mostly information on the israel ministry of health website, a little bit of data coming from the mayo clinic and other sources. so we haven't really had the chance to review the full data to say when that set point is to...

Starting next month covid booster shots could be offered to fully vaccinated adults eight months after receiving their second dose of the pfizer or moderna vaccine. health officials cite the vaccine's waning protection against infection over time and decreased effectiveness against the delta variant specifically. though the shots still offer strong protection against severe disease. let's talk about this now with cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. okay, sanjay, tell us what happened here? what changed so that we're now learning about needing boosters? >> well, nothing really...

45th president of the united states cannot use the same platform to communicate with his own followers. i will tell you that this is a symptom of a deeper geopolitical threat and it is this. corporate america has turned its back on america. i can tell you that just like they did in afghanistan, corporate america is going to do the same thing, mark my words, the way that china and gates invadestaiwan. not to face behavior is not just a matter of hypocrisy, it is costing us on the global stage. >> harris: data showing don chilling. >> kayleigh: facebook who in no way should be commended for thei...

Health-care workers could likely be first in line, followed by seniors. the government is tentatively scheduled to release more information about vaccine effectiveness on wednesday. >> there's more data that the cdc has collected that supports that your immunity decreased over time and could potentially be a point of vulnerability for some of these new variants like the delta variant. >> reporter: the israeli government posted data showing for those over 65 who received their pfizer second dose in january, the vaccine is now only 55% effective against severe disease are there limits to that da...