boy, that is a nice image. the president is also asking americans to continue to do their part, to get vaccinated, not to let their guards down in the coming months, like wearing masks. john harwood is at the white house. and john, the president, other top officials, they re going to hit the road and promote this. i m sure they have the experience of the 2008 rescue package in mind. started popular, not as pap lar as this. and you see republicans attacking the package around the edges here. is the intention to try to keep this popular. absolutely. and they ll get some help when the checks start arriving in bank accounts this weekend, $1,400 for adults and children in families with incomes under $150,000. so that is going to help them. but they do have to make sheer the other benefits of the plan including new benefits for small businesses that haven t been touched by previous rounds of paycheck protection. but this is a was a speech last night where the president was no
the cdc publishing new figures showing how dominant the highly contagious covid-19 delta variant has become in this country. delta now accounts for more than 93% of all covid-19 infections across the nation. to put that in perspective, the delta variant accounted for just 3% of cases as recently as mid may. it comes as dr. anthony fauci tells cnn he believes the fda could give full, not just emergency approval, full approval to pfizer s vaccine as soon as the next couple weeks. with more than 90 million people still eligible but unvaccinated, fauci says final approval could help combat vaccine hesitancy. might also speed up authorization for children under 12. let s begin with cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. tell us what more we know about the timing of when full fda approval may come. dr. fauci brought it up as close
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has passed. reporter: and pa mela, betwen this holiday weekend and the next you ll see an effort to meet the goal, combat vaccine hesitancy and bring more shots to people where they are. new york city is deploying mobile vaccine units to crowded hot spots this holiday weekend like in central park and to the city s beaches which are finally back open. pamela? sure are. thanks so much. let s bring in dr. william schaffner. great to see you as always. it has been over a year since the first coronavirus case in the united states. while we re starting to celebrate the return to normalcy, the way we lived before the pandemic, we don t definitively know where covid came from. explain why it is so important to know the origin. pamela, it is important to find out scientifically where it came from. we d like to know that because