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The office delayed for many because of the delta variant. now the w.h.o. warning of the new mu variant, found in 39 countries, including the u.s. over the holiday weekend, americans craving a sense of normalcy. college football fans crowded into stadiums. more than 86,000 filled the florida gators stadium. no testing masks or vaccines required. despite breaking covid records in august, florida was the top choice for travelers going out of state. now some doctors are taking a stand. one miami physician telling her patients if they're not vaccinated, she is not seeing them in person. >> everybod...

To be? if it's greater than 90%, that's really, really good and we need to get comfortable that we experience a flu-like illness with covid-19 but you're not going to die. now, if you're living with some with compromised immunity system that, mild infection holds much more significance. i think it's important to start shifting our idea of what our relationship to covid-19 is and when it will become an endemic infection and part of our lives. >> you have this raging variant right now, the mu variant, it's now a variant of interest. i'm going to ask dr. azhar to weigh in in a moment. you have th...

Moderna is delayed by a data review. >> we've got people that are well beyond six months that are 60 and older that need the booster shot, and we can't give it to them because we're being held up by, you know, the nation and on the federal level right now. >> reporter: more evidence boosters are needed? a beginning and end of summer comparison. four times the number of people in the hospital with covid-19 now. average new daily cases up over 800%. back then, we were losing an average of 594 lives a day. now, 1,561. the difference, fewer mitigation measures and delta. >> we need to rev up our g...

Part of what needs to shift is, we need to understand not only the anxiety of those who are vaccine hesitant, who are resistant, but we also have a healthy respect for everybody, first of, all but also for the lives and health of everybody else. people have a right to be protected from the unvaccinated. and we are not really talking about that. there is a serious concern for millions of americans. >> doctor azar, a last word to you, and i want you to give us the abc's of this new variant. what we need to know, how or do we need to be at this variant that could evade vaccines. >> remember, when...

Should we be? how big of a threat is this? >> it is not at the level of the delta variant yet. we see with the variants the viruses mutate, try to keep themselves alive to find new hosts. if this mu variant is as good or better than the delta variant at evading our current vaccines and protections, then we will soon have a problem. one thing that we have seen consistently is that we are following what's happening in europe and we're following what's happening in asia. what we need to do is get ourselves prepared as much as we can, so that we can try to fight this, when it does start to take ov...