in the latest 24 hour period. and more than 34 million people have now had both doses that s 64.6% of uk adults. the world health organization has urged extreme caution when lifting restrictions during a surge in cases even in countries that have good vaccination rates like the uk. the who s head of the emergencies programme, dr mike ryan, said the idea of letting people get infected with covid 19 earlier rather than later was epidemiological stupidity . 0ur medical editor fergus walsh examines how big the third wave could be. despite increasing levels of vaccination, coronavirus cases are doubling in the uk roughly every nine days, so how protected are we? the office for national statistics estimates 89% of adults now have
hispanic 6.2%. black 5.6%. federal workforce. can i submit to you. lawyer an i keep going for a second leo. you asked for some legal data some legal stuff. so give for a second. federal workforce. 18.4%. black. white 64.6. american-indianian 1.6, asian 5.8%. hispanic 8.6%. i can play the numbers game all day long. hong on. one second. here s the point i like those numbers. because thei white number is disproportionally higher than the actually numbers. and. so that s what we re getting at. come on? thistt administration does he people of color. laura: those numbers were obama administration numbers, leo? tricked ya . i didn t mean to by the way. i decided to look at this too. one of the things we should know that black americans are overrepresented in the federal
it pits democrat chris coons against christine o donnell. the race attracted a lot of attention because o donnell came out of no where to upset mike castle in the primary. this sunday o donnell and coons were out on the sunday talk shows. the party isn t helping us and we are asking help. we have the democratic committee coming after me. we are hoping that the national republican senatorial committee will help us. she has run for the united states senate three times in the last five years. what is persist explosive. what do you think that is all about? i think my grandmother would have said she has a lot of moxie. coons is still way ahead. the latest rcp average has coons at 64.6% and o donnell at just 37. shannon: senate candidate
poverty line. home ownership, look at it, for after scan americans, 47.4%, and look at the numbers. household computers under 50% for blacks, 64.6% for whites. both of the numbers actually shocked me. but you talk about financial literacy, it s literacy in general, you have the right tools to retrain and find out where the jobs are and access community resources and get out there and do something. remember, i was doing a workshop and we were working with some individuals who were formerly incarcerated and one of them held me behind the workshop and he pulled me into a room with a computer in it, and he asked me how to use it. he didn t know how to turn it on. it s the basic level of literacy of using computers, but after 20 minutes he was pretty much literate in the computer. so, it s the smallest thing that help individuals. and there s another stat that actually disturbed me.
home and 64.6% of white households do. the numbers track similarly for hispanics. what s responsibility for that wide disparty? you ve got long-term historic discrimination and a legacy of slavery and segregation. you would probably mark progress since the 1960s. what s important now is for the nation to embrace the idea while closing the gaps is not only good for african-americans but also good for the nation at large. when we have unemployed people, we also have people who could be contributing to the overall economy. that s why we strongly support a robust jobs initiative by the president and the congress. our report includes six recommendations in that regard. we ll be pushing that report over the next several months. mark, let s bring in judy