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Has become. and going home with gold. the olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. how american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. i'm phil mattingly in washington in for fredricka whitfield. right now, the covid pandemic is surging in the u.s. and shows no signs of slowing down. to know how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. the average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july, the delta variant fuelling this rise in cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. hospital even more troubling is how this variant is affecting children. childh...

Trends are. you've mentioned lambda. something that was detected in peru. this is something we need to keep an eye on. it's a variant of interest meaning it has potential impact to you know, more transmissibility, severity of illness. so certainly these are number of variants of interest that we're going to continue to keep our eye on. it's going to continue to happen as more spread continues across the world. >> it's the wild part about all of this is get vaccinated. not just because it keeps everybody safe around you, but also because it snuffs this out before more variants develop. your exp...

New week, new COVID-19 variant.

About covid at about these cases that are rising, and the delta variant, they should be worried about some sort of lambda variant that is apparently rampant in latin america, and that will be coming across the border soon, too, so he is just a hypocrite, theyro are just usg this as another weapon of control. if they cared, they would stop those covid positive migrants pouring over the border. we are looking at, you know 2 million plus undocumented migrants coming over the border and if you even take a small like arv 5%, that's conservative of those that are covid positive, you are talking abou...

Dakotas, it really is striking how bad the situation is in this country. >> it is, absolutely. the situation is very grim. the numbers have been increasing at a rate much greater than we got hit in new orleans when the pandemic first hit in 2020. for many hospitals in the state, they are at the breaking point or past the breaking point. they're providing what we would call crisis standards of care, which is, again, so demoralizing for health care workers, when it is a preventable situation in many of their eyes. >> dr. marti, quickly, because we only have a minute left with you guys. what vari...