he said inflation is around the 2% target rate. growth in the u.s. spending slowed in july at .3% down from last month s 1.1%. experts see that as a sign americans are more cautious among the delta variant surge. spending in cars and restaurants strengthened last month. democrats are lashing out at the u.s. supreme court for blocking president biden s eviction moratorium. there is a push from progressives to take action. hilary has more. president biden was trying to buy times to get billion dollars of rental relief into tennant s hands. the supreme court told him he did not have the power to extend the eviction ban, he did it
have not been vaccinated vaccinated, i hope we could start to get some good control in the spring of 2022. reporter: some say the new fda approval for the pfizer vaccine helped convince them to get the shot. now that there are things that are fda approved, that makes it a little bit more comfortable. i did need to see a little bit more research, some fda approval at the very least. reporter: and for the millions of fully vaccinated, that third shot, a booster shot, just weeks away. officials say it could be available by mid-september. now more evidence americans will need it. an updated cdc study of 4,000 front line workers found that vaccine effectiveness at preventing any infection dropped from 91% to 66% from april to august, a drop that was likely fueled by the delta variant surge and a waning of vaccine efficacy over time, especially for health care workers who were among the first in the nation to be vaccinated. and victor, i want to get right back to that study. when you
would take against a business here in texas that decided to issue a vaccine mandate. but standing in front of the texas medical center here, they have seen active covid cases nearly double in the last week here in the houston area. they are really hoping that they can see these numbers start to drop off. and this full approval by pfizer is certainly encouraging, but it s still too early to tell how big an impact it will have on this current delta variant surge. garrett? doctor, is that school official who morgan spoke to correct about the idea that masks are enough there when vaccine mandates are available, or is new york city maybe onto something here? so i would respectfully disagree with that school official. we need to be honest. masks are a temporary bridging measure to vaccination. you know, if we take a look at where we are in the pandemic, we have about 90 million americans who are, you know, unvaccinated but eligible. and only vaccinating about a million people a day.
children back to school, some of them are already back in school, some of them will be going to school here in the next few weeks. they are unvaccinated largely. they are going back during a delta variant surge. in many cases they are going back to schools where they will not be wearing masks because they have been banned by some governors or school districts or even at the request of their parents. do you think we re going to see children dying because of this? well, brianna, first of all, there is nothing more important than the health of our kids, and so i m glad we re talking about this. and i say this not just as a doctor, but as a dad with two kids who are too young to be vaccinated right now. the good news is still that even with the delta, we are seeing that our kids, by and large, do remarkably well in terms of coming out on the other end and recovering well even if they do get infected. with that said, we ve seen our