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less than an hour away from officially introducing him. we ll go live to paris for that. and tropical storm fred forms in the caribbean and barrels toward florida. the latest forecast just ahead. good to have you with us. president biden is taking his covid vaccination campaign to business leaders, he will meet with a group of them later today to discuss strategies for getting more americans vaccinated. the meeting comes as three major u.s. airlines have announced they will not require employees to get vaccinated. delta, southwest and american airlines say they are encouraging employee vaccinations but won t mandate
major carrier to mandate employee vaccinations could it do the same for passengers and why now is the time to shop for a new credit card. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt hello, everyone great to be back from our coverage at the olympics, but returning, frankly, to a country that sadly looks a lot more like last winter when it comes to covid that s how much ground we ve lost in the fight against the pandemic as we re about to show you, in some parts of the country, hospitals themselves are on the critical list. available icu beds counted in single digits, or worse yet, patients turned away. as the danger of the delta variant becomes more apparent each day, more americans are getting vaccinated that number well above 166 million. finally edging above the 50% mark but the goalposts may be moving. the threshold for herd immunity now calculated to be well beyond 80%, according to a recent briefing by the infectious
value of your decisions on your life? can we make it now? reporter: public health officials are urging people to make the right decision. this is entirely acontribute tri attributable to the delta variant. reporter: the mississippi health officer says 89% of hospitalized people and 85% of deaths there are the unvaccinated. hospitals are becoming inundated with patients again. in houston, an 11 month old who tested positive for covid-19 had to be air lifted 150 miles away because no pediatric hospital in the area could take her. the response to these troubling trends vary greatly. many private companies are requiring employee vaccinations. including united airlines, imposing this requirement on its 80,000 employees by the end of september. california is the first state in the nation to require health care workers to be fully