second. sure, you know, on the one hand the elections were overseen by state monitors, they operated under a consent agreement and they produced no evidence really of wrongdoing outside of this nick said those few votes that were reversed. but on the other hand, you know, the democrats won. so i think that s their cause to investigate and pass this law, that the democrats won, and they won by 380,000 votes here. they are using that to try and supplant the entire election system. i mean i think the race element here cannot be disregarded. i think even with conservative courts this is a law that, you know, is deeply problematic. of course, we shouldn t be there, you know, before the supreme court gutted the voting rights act, it would have required preclearance and these changes couldn t have gone into effect without a court first signing off on them. that s what the legislation before congress right now is about, and i think, you know, it deeply needs to be passed for the reasons mich
some of the first stories, describing how they could change who certifies and administers the vote. that is now happening. yeah. what we saw yesterday and today with these letters from republican state legislators in georgia is the first in what probably will be a very lengthy process and is by no means guaranteed, but it is the ground work for the possible takeover of the county elections board in fulton county, home to 10% of georgia voters, a large lot of democratic voters. president biden carried it by 72% with about 380,000 votes there. so it is clearly critical for any democrat in georgia running statewide to win fulton county. what the letters did was they started a request for a performance review, and to get that you needed two members from the fulton county delegation in both the senate and the house, and those requests came in. they followed a lot of what we have seen in kind of right-wing media on some of the
infections. vaccines reduce the transmission, if you re vaccinated, could that change, could you be more likely to transmit it. for all cases that are increasing, tons of people unvaccinated, i think it is a wise and cautious step to reintroduce indoor masking. i think it has to be based on metrics in communities we talk about. if you re highly vaccinated communities, seeing pockets, those are areas consider reinstating mask mandates the way l.a. county has done. one thing i will say, people immuno compromised or medical conditions, i recommend take the extra step and consider putting on a mask. jeff, when i heard president biden blaming facebook for misinformation, i heard a lot of frustration that we seem to be essentially stuck, averaging 380,000 doses of vaccine a day nationwide, down from around
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commodities on the planet at one point. we would have to be vaccinating about 750,000 people a day to get to that point. we re about 380,000. but we re still in really good shape i think overall. obviously the numbers of new cases and hospitalizations and deaths keep going down. it ll probably be end of july at this pace before we get to that 70% number. all right, dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so much, i appreciate it. an american student, former marine, found dead in russia. the terrifying last text that she sent to her mother. that story s next. marine, found dead in russia.