reintroduced and why the trend map looks like this. look at that red. cases rising in every state this morning, everywhere in deep red rises more than 50%. big rises. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen with exactly what these documents reveal about the delta variant which spreads like wild fire this document says and might cause worse infection. john, right. we have known that the delta variant spreads like wild fire. and what these internal cdc documents show is sort of the data that s behind that. so let s take a look at what this cdc document really puts in stark black and white terms. i ll be honest, i ve covered them for decades now. they are usually incredibly nerdy and express everything in these very, very nerdy ways. this actually spells it out quite clearly. so what they say in these documents is that covid-19 is
and teachers in this situation. and this unfortunately may be a sign of things to come, this being one of the schools with the earliest start of the school year in this area. perhaps in the nation. so that is definitely weighing on the minds of educators and families, brianna. kids do not have the choice. the vaccinations are not available to them right now unless they re in a trial. natasha chen, live for us from atlanta. thank you. joining us now is dr. khan, acting director of the st. louis county department of health and dr. khan has been dealing with the rising cases in places like missouri. we appreciate you being with us right now. dr. khan, this report, this internal document from the cdc, i don t know how closely you ve had a chance to look at it, but it talks about these new dangers with the delta variant. wildly transmissible. more transmissible than the flu or the cold or ebola or anything like that. and more serious cases than the covid we ve come to know. what challen
here in the united states and all around the world. i m john berman with brianna keilar. it is friday, july 30th and we begin with an alarming leaked cdc document that offers a chilling assessment of the state of the pandemic. quote, the war has changed. this is what it says. and here is why. inside this document, data that suggests the delta variant likely causes more severe disease than earlier strains of covid. and it is just as infectious as the chicken pox. that means it spreads like wildfire. the cdc slide presentation obtained by the washington post and confirmed by cnn concludes that the variant spreads faster than sars, ebola, the flu, and the common cold. the documents also contain unpublished data that says vaccinated people may spread the virus as easily as the unvaccinated when breakthrough infections occur. this will be published today. what we have seen so far explains why cdc officials made their latest decision on masks. we are also learning from the report that the
more transmissible than the common cold or flu and as transmissible as chickenpox. i m old enough to remember when i got chickenpox and my brother got it and my sister and my other sister got it and everyone got it. that is really, really transmissible. i had a discussion with the head of the cdc, dr. rochelle walensky said it s up there with chickenpox and measles. measles is as transmissible as it gets. let s look at something called an rnot number. that s a fancy way of saying when one person gets covid-19, how many people can they spread it to? when you look at the original strain, what i sometimes refer to as corona classic, the thing we started out with, one person could spread it to about two to three people. that s what you would expect. but with this delta variant, it spreads to five to nine people. that is a huge difference. and i don t know about you guys, but here in georgia where i live, you can really see that.
comedy. well, maybe now they are. that was also, you pointed out the home minister, she was like the funniest part of all of that to me because she s watching she s watching it from the beginning like she knows what s coming, right? no, no. i m not being part of this at all. i have a future. i want a future in politics. this is amazing. all right. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m brianna keilar alongside the always comedic john berman. it is friday, july 30th. we are not crying wolf. that is the message from the director of the cdc as alarming new data shows the delta variant is now one of the most transmissible viruses ever. and just as infectious as the chickenpox. in the words of cdc officials, the war has changed. the latest data also suggests the delta variant causes more severe disease. this disturbing internal cdc report explains why the cdc thinks mask mandates need to be