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For a third shot. >> reporter: yeah, lester for those between 18 to 49 with chronic health problems like asthma, diabetes or obesity, they can get one after consulting with their doctor. rester >> miguel almaguer, thank you. while infections from the delta variant may have peaked, there is concern about new strains of a virus, like the new variant called mu. first identified in columbia earlier this year and now here in every state gabe gutierrez has more. inside this hospital, the fight against covid has been raging this patient lying facedown told us he put off getting vaccinated and got...

One local pharmacist explains why children 5-11 years old are still waiting to get the vaccine protecting against COVID-19 almost a year after Pfizer was granted an emergency-use authorization for adults.

Workforce is keeping given how bad it's been for so long. >> yeah. thank you so much for remembering that. i will say that it's gone from a feeling of really fear, anxiety, all the sort of stuff i was conveying to you back then, to a sort of numbness. and that's so much worse because when you start to feel like, you know, you can't see an end to this, right? we don't know what's going to happen. hopefully delta will decline like it has in other countries. the uk, israel. but nobody's really sure that's going to happen. plus we have the mu variant in the waiting room. hopefully, that won't take...

And that's so much worse because when you start to feel like, you know, you can't see an end to this, right, we don't know what's going to happen. hopefully delta will decline like it has in other countries. the uk, israel. but nobody's really sure that's going to happen. plus we have the mu variant in the waiting room. hopefully that won't take off. but the bottom line is this exhaustion coupled with uncertainty about when this is going to end and when we're going to be able to get back to taking care of people for all the other things they really need. so i think people are at a very dangero...

They're the most aggressive step mandating every federal employee and federal contractor as well as healthcare worker are vaccinated. 80 million people either will have to have a vaccine or a weekly test that work for companies with more than 100 people. unfortunately, there's no other way to get above the low 50%, which is where we are now in terms of vaccinating the country. we're the lowest of the g-7 countries. japan has passed the united states. we have to take drastic measures to get the vaccination up in the united states. >> we keep hearing about the mu variant. is that something to be...