packed house, masks optional in tampa last night for the nfl season opener, outdoors, sure, but listen to this. in washington state, an outdoor mask mandate for events with 500-plus kicks in monday. why? the watershed festival at the gorge led to more than 200 infections from that one event. and it was outdoors. reporter: deep in this delta-driven surge, the country now averaging over 1 million new cases a week and over 10,000 dead a week. we re not going to eradicate sars-cov-2. i don t think that s a realistic option. it will become endemic and basically it s going to end the day that we have kind of achieved enough level of population immunity that the virus essentially becomes a nuisance and no longer a threat. reporter: so, the president s vaccine mandates call for workers to be fully vaccinated, so right now, that means one