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Growing evidence of the need for this third shot, a booster shot, that they say will now be available starting september 20th, of course, pending fda approval. tonight, a new preliminary study in the uk finding that vaccinated people who get breakthrough cases with the delta variant have a higher viral load. we ve heard this from u.s. authorities before. this study says they are more likely to transmit the virus to others. and just today, the news coming in that three senators announcing separately that they have now tested positive. all of them were fully vaccinated, so, these are breakthrough cases. senator roger wicker of mississippi, a republican, senator angus king, an independent from maine and senator john hickenlooper, a colorado democrat who tweeted, i m grateful for the vaccine for limiting my symptoms, urging others to still get the shot. abc s victor oquendo on all of this from miami tonight. reporter: tonight, health officials stressing just how critical that third covid booster shot will be to prevent more breakthrough infections,
i think the recommendation about severely immunocompromised is coming this week and for the rest of us, we have to wait until the science shows. and when we have people vaccinated for pushing a year now come this winter so we should track immunity and how it waynes over time and based on that data, we ll be able to say what needs a booster shot when. cnn has learned of some people going out and getting a third shot on their own, in some cases crossing straate lines too it. if if someone came to you what, would your advice be to someone considering do this before it is recommended and before it is been authorized? i would say way. right now we know the evidence show that the people fully immunized have a lower risk of having severe complications from covid. you may get symptomatic covid but it is more like a bad cold, not like the life-threatening illness that it is in people without the vaccine. so you have time to witness.
We were putting up a screen now for folks at home but we re seeing this surge as we re already hearing about some schools that have gone back for in-person learning have you to return to virtual learning. i know that has a lot of parents concerned. realistically, how much more of that do you think we could see? i am so worried about this. the delta variant is incredibly infectious. and that map on paper looks scary. i could tell you that as a physician, living in a health care system caring for all of the people that end up as dot on a map, it is terrifying. we re seeing what we saw last winter, this rapid ramp up of people truly suffering horrific illness from covid. we need to do everything in our power to stop this surge. and so it is a simple thing to ask children to wear masks in school, to minimize the spread of this incredibly contagious v
And just lastly, veterans affairs, they are also expanding their mandate for vaccinations at all v.a. hospitals expanding it from just certain health care workers to nearly all of their health care works now at v.a. hospitals. erica. sending a signal is right. thank you. pretty soon the fda is expected to announce authorization for a third covid shot. for those with compromised immune systems. dr. fauci saying this morning it is likely everybody could get need that shot at some point. joining me amy compton phillips, good to see you. when we hear that this announcement is expected soon from the fda, and an additional shot for those who are severely immunocom immunocompromised and the fact that we could all need one in the near future. do we have any sense of the timing? how soon do you think this recommendation could roll out for perhaps the rest of us?
There were tears in my eyes. reporter: and the good news is doctors are very optimistic that she will be recovering. but 15 years old. wow. layla, thank you. california is taking an unprecedented step to become the first state in the country to require all its teachers and school employees either be vaccinated against covid or undergo weekly testing. joining me now deborah darto from the los angeles county office of education. good to have you with us. so this requirement applies to all staff. when the vaccine has full fda approval, do you envision having this same requirement for eligible students? so we don t know yet. we re following the guidelines of the department of public health. what we know right now is we want to make sure all of our employees, whether you re a teacher, counselor, bus driver, c custodian, gets vaccinated. we re doing everything possible to make sure that we could open our schools for in person
As the state of texas is smacking into this coronavirus wall. some people aren t describing it as a surge any more. but the governor is an the texas attorney general, both republicans starting to go after the mostly democrats in the largest cities in the state who have been in defiance of the governor s executive order issuing mask requirements. the texas attorney general calling these big city leaders, quote, activist characters and they re vowing to go after all of them in court. but so far they re only going after the dallas county mask requirement in court. and then when all of this is happening as the coronavirus cases continue to surge here in this state. there are more than 10,000 people hospitalized. a number we haven t seen since early february and in some of the worst days of the pandemic. we re under 370 available icu beds and the ceo of the harris county health district in houston is warning this state is