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County. one of them never had a mask mandate and the other one did briefly. >> you believe masks work. what harm is there in wearing a mask indoors? >> unless someone had a medical condition that prohibits them from doing it or some other similar cause, i don't think there's any harm in wearing the mask. i think there's harm in mandating citizens do it when they can do it on their own and if this is going to be the standard that every time there's an up tick in covid and it's not going away, we'll be wearing masks in perpetuity. i don't find that to be practical or workable. i think when gover...

And if that's true, and we don't get the numbers up where they need to be. what happens the next few months, the next year with coronavirus in this country? what does it look like to you? >> willie, i think you're asking the critical question that all health officials are. i'll say number one, i hope there will be an up tick in vaccinations, especially if schools open. the news we're not going to have children vaccine option in the near future should give many adults at least some pause and i'm hoping officials encourage adults to get vaccinated. number two, i think employers, you heard many a...

Restaurants, malls, bars, and some other places. and as a result, they've actually seen an up tick in vaccine appointments. so that something to consider. the u.s. has had a 47% decline in vaccinations just since last week. all while the u.s. has nearly doubled the daily number of new infections since last week. why are things moving in the wrong direction? >> well, early on when the vaccines were initially rolled out, there were plenty of people, millions of people who were eager to get vaccinated. we vaccinated those people already, and as we started to go through the vaccine rollout, we're ...

Through the entire olympics. one of the reasons for the state of emergency, officials want to thin out the crowds in restaurants and bars like here. officials are urging those businesses not to serve alcohol. they want people to watch at home. even the olympic rings are being shut off early. the new restrictions come after an up tick in covid cases due to the delta variant. while transmission here is still relatively low compared to other hot spots. the vaccine rollout is slow. >> the vast majority remain unvaccinated. they're afraid of the olympics kick starting another surge. >> 70,000 peopl...

Why? there's been an up tick in cases in tokyo, but largely due in part to the foreign travelers, thousands of them like ourselves, coming to tokyo. what they want is crowd control. they're asking restaurants, bars, karaoke parlors to not serve alcohol. they don't want the tourist sites to be mobbed by people. they want things to be call here. it will be hard when you have a giant amount of people coming here from around the world. when you speak to people in japan, they're not excited about the olympics. in fact more than 50% in the latest poll said they don't want the olympics to happen. the...