they ll cut it off. they would tend to go on with trump for an hour or two or more. the white house has reached its goal about a month behind what the president had set out to do. did the administration now do we anticipate they ll be issuing any sort of vaccination goals, benchmarks to hit, or at this point is it all hands on deck, get as many people vaccinated as possible with the delta vashlts obviously surging particularly that particularly to this point has had low vaccination rates? yeah. there is no spiking the football yesterday on this 70% marker. maybe we ll hear the president talk about that more today. but certainly the goal seems to be nothing short of getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and the administration has gotten a little bit of a boost sadly from the delta variant in their vaccination efforts because in the places getting hardest hit by the variant, they ve seen an uptick
restrictions. so that s increased testing, increased capacity restrictions, physical distancing should strongly be considered. we know all of those strategies are additive and quite effective. let s talk about schools. school is back in session in parts of the country soon, next couple of weeks, even some places in the northeast where it s after labor day. over the past year or so, we know schools go through precautions, windows open, kids in masks, other measures. what now with this delta variant? what now is the recommendation? we heard from president biden schools should be back in session this year, in person across the country. how do they do that? how does the delta variant change the equation as to how to safeguard students and teachers in these classrooms? right. as a parent of two small children the in the new york city public school system, i ve
and hospitals in many areas are once again overwhelmed. nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer has more. reporter: as the crisis deepens at hospitals in hot spots the numbers are staggering, our nation has again recorded over 100,000 infections in a single day. the delta variant filling icus and killing more americans from week-to-week. if you get sick with the delta variant we estimate that you could infect about five other unvaccinated people. more than twice as many as the original strain. reporter: though it comes nearly a month after the president s fourth of july goal, 70% of adults are at least partially vaccinated. but every day more breakthrough infections are reported. senator lindsey graham now in quarantine said being fully
hospitalizations, and death. they re still effective at preventing all of those. in terms of breakthrough infections as you mentioned, there still is a very, very small risk that someone fully vaccinate cleveland get infected, and then we have some recent data they can possibly transmit the infection to others. still, very, very rear. the issue is not with the vaccines but the variant. we have widespread uncontrolled transmission of the virus not just in the u.s. but globally and that s causing variants to evolve. the delta variant is a thousand times more infectious, and one person can infect about five people compared to the wild type which only infected two people. . all that to say, there s so much variant around that we really should consider reinstating masks especially where caseloads are high. i do think that in areas where the surges are happening, where hospitals are at capacity, those areas should consider other