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Vaccinated with at least one dose is tomorrow. the governor is now considering a potential state of emergency which would allow officials to fill gaps with medical professionals from other states and countries. she's also preparing to deploy medically trained national guard members if needed. joining me right now to discuss is the senior director of the special pathogen program at nyc health and hospitals. so good to see you. what kind of conversations are you having with any hesitant colleagues as this deadline approaches? >> well, many of us have been taking the opportunity over the past few...

The u.s. is now averaging more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. for context, we have not seen numbers this high since february according to data from johns hopkins. this comes after new infections sank just seven weeks ago. it's the delta variant that's fuelling the surge in cases and hospitalizations and death. almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. dr. fauci says as long as we remain unvaccinated, future variants could come. >> but if you give the virus a chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact...