delta variant. does that mean that in-person learning will have to be rolled back? well, according to the aap, their latest guidance says the benefits of in-person school outweigh the risks in almost all circumstances slojs mask wearing is prioritized, as long asprioid and as long as vaccine is taken by the groups those that can, those 12 and up. glad to hear the kids are doing okay so far. cori coffman in new york. thank you. coming up, we will dig more into the conversation surrounding covid and the delta variant, dr. uche blackstock with more on the breakthrough cases. first, the nfl has taken a
variants. the other thing is, as we ve seen in the pandemic, we prioritized giving vaccinations to the elderly. that s why in that pfizer study out of israel they re seeing got it. maybe reduced protection at six, seven months. that s because elderly were vaccinated very early in the pandemic. got it. okay. i just quickly want you to comment on the story i did earlier with cori coffman talking about the outbreak in a summer camp in upstate new york. pretty troubling with folks like me whose kids are in summer camps an also ahead of the school year, in some cases school is beginning in the next couple of weeks, especially in the south. up here in the northeast, in september. what does this delta variant mean for younger kids that likely won t have a green light to get a vaccine until sometime mid-winter it seems at this point? right. so, as we know, children are still vulnerable. so when you put them in high-risk settings, so an away camp is a high-risk setting.
months, which means this pandemic will be extended for that much longer among the unvaccinated especially. yep. okay. great setup for my next guest. thank you so much, cori coffman. now i want to bring in nbc public health analyst, dr. redlener, founder of disaster preparedness at columbia university. good to talk to you. a couple of things i want to see if you agree with the categorization of this as being a pandemic of the unvaccinated. that was dr. wilensky who said that, and then dr. fauci said, look, we are looking at the potential for two americas, a vaccinated america and the unvaccinated america. where do you stand on both of those sentiments? well, i actually agree with both of them. but it is actually more than america. we are looking at two different global populations. one highly, highly unvaccinated with many countries in africa less than 2%. the differentiation among states here in the united states is stark, alex, and it is very dangerous, and it is probably going
reporter: now, two things about everyone we spoke to on the street. one is most of them had a mask with them just in case the mask was necessary. although all of them told us that they hate the mask, they did say that they plan to wear it because it is for the best of the community. they want things to improve here in los angeles, and with these numbers that we ve been seeing, you know, they think that it is necessary to mask. health authorities here saying also that the unvaccinated are five times more than likely to get the virus, especially with the new delta variant. meanwhile, health authorities in california and in l.a. county will continue with the campaign to try to vaccinate all of those that haven t, offering gift cards, in some places even free food or anything they can to try to convince everyone in los angeles county to come out and get the vaccine. joe. thank you. to the east coast now. a similar story beginning to emerge, especially on staten island. that s where we
sheriff says he s not going to enforce that order. it requires residents to once again wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. and in tokyo, the first covid cases in the olympic village have been reported just days before the games begin. officials say that the person infected so far not an athlete, rather someone involved in organizing the games. that person now in a 14-day quarantine. let s go to nbc s cori coffman join inus from new york city, specifically staten island where the delta variant is surging. welcome to you. what are officials doing to try to slow this down? reporter: yeah, alex. health officials not only at the national level, which is what we heard from dr. rachelle wilensky there just now, but also at the local level are trying to explain to people, show people the numbers and show the correlation between what it means to get vaccinated and what it means to not be vaccinated if you do encounter the delta variant. we recently heard from dr. fauci ab