drops because despite the losses the s&p 500 is still up more than 13% on the year and up 90% from the 20 lows. market was overdo for a sell-off. it can t go straight up forever. but clearly covid concerns are back and as one analyst put it to me just now, she said that the delta variant spike has reminded investors that covid is not over. that is so interesting. matt, great reporting. thank you for that. let s go to tokyo where a member of the u.s. women s gymnastics team has just tested positive for covid. four days ahead of the opening ceremonies for the olympic games. and officials in tokyo, they re now reporting more than 60 coronavirus cases linked to the olympics and some of the athletes already living in the olympic village. dr. sanjay gupta is there on the ground in tokyo for you. thank you for staying up for us. what are you learning about this gymnast and what it could mean
permanente. thank you so much for joining us, doctor. we re seeing the rise of the delta variant, mostly in the south and places like missouri, where the investigation rate is extremely low, but also in california where it s now the dominant variant, probably the best example is l.a. county. it s reported the highest number of cases in months now. in fairness, it s still way lower than what we saw during the peak. but i guess it s the rate at which it s increasing that is worrying experts. so the many hospitals that you help manage that treat millions of patients across the state. so you get a great overview of what s happening. what are you seeing? well, you know, it s really clear that the delta variant is much more transmissible than before. we were talk it as an abstraction about a month ago. and now it s become the predominant strain in the united states, and it s quickly going to be that in california as well. in california i can say that because we ve got higher vaccination ra
vaccinated, to also be vaccinated as well. russia just reported an all-time high in deaths, 752 on saturday. the number of infection-related deaths have been steadily climbing. the total stands at is 42,000. russia reported more than 25,000 new cases. the questions europeans are having to deal with now are whether and how to reopen. covid-19 cases are picking up again, and the last thing the continent wants right now is another outbreak. cyril vanier is in london for us. reporter: a rise in coronavirus infections fueled by the highly contagious delta variant is forcing european countries to face uncomfortable choices as they open up. the netherlands u-turned on saturday, reimposing restrictions on nightclubs two weeks after society mostly reopen. clubs shut down again as the
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hospitalizations, we re at really 10 to 15% of where we were at the peak back in january. that s different and in contrast to other parts of the country where we re seeing particularly in missouri, as you called out, running out of hospital beds or running out of ventilators. so the key message here when it comes to the delta variant is that if you re unvaccinated, you re at high risk for getting infected and getting hospitalized and potentially dying from it. if you re vaccinated, you are seeing lack of illness, and lack of hospitalization. in fact, 99% of the hospitalizations that are occurring right now in our kaiser permanente system are in people that are unvaccinated. yeah, that s a very important point to make. and i think that 99%, we re seeing that practically across the country. but if it weren t enough, the delta variant, now in california the epsilon strain to worry about, which seems to make the