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>> a video announcement from mr. biden could come as early as tuesday announcing his run for reelection but many americans including a large trunk of democrats are concerned for his future. the white house is touchy about the growing drumbeat that he not run again and consider the following the white house is going the extra mile reporters questions about issues where they are left out of unofficial white house transcripts of a rose garden event. >> why should america give you four more years? >> stay tuned. well. the past couple of years? at any rate it's all unfortunate somewhat ar...

Discussions with states is that the places that have had to close camps, the places that have had challenges with summer school have really been in areas that are not practicing prevention strategies that we know work. places where you're seeing the footage of lots of hospitalizations, especially of young people, have been places in this country that have lower rates of vaccination, higher rates of disease, and have not been implementing the prevention strategies that we know work. >> yeah. and i guess this is, again, a denominator question, right? it all comes down to what's the rate of commu...

The prevention strategies that we know work. places where you are seeing the footage of hospitalizations, lots of hospitalizations, of young people, are places that have lower rates of vaccination, higher rates of disease. and have not been implementing the prevention strategies that we know work. >> yeah. and i guess this is, again, a denominator question. it comes down to what is your rate of community transmission. and, again, a slim risk, a one and 1000 risk, but if you have 100,000 cases, that makes a difference, in the aggregate. another question, which follows on all this, a criticism t...

14 people have been confirmed to be infected. all in china. frighteningly enough that's all we know about the latest virus that right now has a 36% fatality rate. joining me now is laurie garret a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. thank you so much for joining us. there's clearly a lot we don't know. why is it so concerning and what do you want to know that we still don't know? >> there are many things i want to know but two big ones. what is the denominator and exactly how are these people getting infected? so the denominator question is whenever you have a ...