prepare for the fall when they believe could be another wave of covid going around here and the continent as well. not everything is rosy. one of the things we learned this morning here in germany is that several states have actually given vaccines back to the central government because they simply couldn t find enough people to take them, john. i will say those vaccine passes i would feel a lot better in places where i know everyone else is vaccinated. thank you so much for that report, fred. i appreciate it. as coronavirus cases surge, sources tell cnn that president biden feels he struck a brick wall trying to convince unvaccinated americans to get the shot. my next guest was one of the millions of americans who had been hesitant about the vaccine, but she recently changed her mind. she s with us now to talk about this. an assistant professor of mathematics at tallahassee community college in florida. thank you so much for talking to us about this. it s such an important thing f
vaccinated by the cdc when the data is clear it should be. why not hang a sign on your gallery that says you can come in here unmasked if you re vaccinated or if you test negative for covid? well, i mean, i think people know the rules. no. would that would you be okay with the situation where you can come in unmasked, you don t have to wear a mask if you re unvaccinated? there s no government guidelines right that are forcing me to do that, so but you could. i could do anything. we could always do things to be more safer. but if your concern is that people don t want to come in to your gallery, which i hear is wonderful, by the way. thank you. masked, well then have them unmaxed but vaccinated. i just want to be clear my concern isn t selfish. it s not based on people coming into my gallery. my concern is i m a lifelong new yorker. born and raised in greenwich village. my concern is for new york in general and reimplementing these restrictions. mask restrictio
as the vaccination rates are concerned. although, the amount of vaccinations is sort of starting to lag here as well because, of course, we have summer holidays and also right now there s less coronavirus going around as well. one of the reasons why politicians are so sure that the public is going to accept these measures is that in the public in many european countries a lot of people are fed up with people who don t want to get vaccinated. and that s why politicians are pushing this through despite some very public and sometimes aggressive backlash. have a look. unrest on the streets of paris. the crowd protesting new vaccine mandates put in place in an effort to stop a surge in coronavirus infections. but despite the mayhem, france s president says he won t budge and that he s had it with people refusing vaccination. translator: what is your freedom worth if you say to me i don t want to be vaccinated but if tomorrow you infect your
it s changing. it s like the flu, but it s much more deadly. some of us had predicted that this will happen with the virus. we ve underestimated it from the very beginning that it wouldn t come to our shores, our borders would be protective, that it would not really spread and go away, that our vaccines would be totally protective. we ve underestimated this. and it s time to consider this as a very long haul. we can do it. vaccines will work to protect you from dying. they will work to protect many people from being infected. but we need multimodel approaches. a whole system approach and a global approach and we haven t got it yet. professor, i think you leaned into what is one of the most important take aways is this, the vaccines are more important than ever. herd this notion of herd immunity, where we are with covid right now and the delta variant dispels we can beat this
she says she felt like quitting at times but persevered through it all and all came down to the floor routine and she crushed it. suni strong, an emotional win after going through all that she s been through. this is her moment and she says she s embracing every bit of it. with covid and my family and everything else, this medal definitely means a lot to me because there was a point in time where i wanted to quit. i didn t think i would ever get here, including injuries and stuff. so there are definitely a lot of emotions, but i m super proud of myself for sticking with it and believing in myself. 18 years old, brianna. favorite book is harry potter. favorite movie finding nemo she wanted pizza and got her pepperoni. you deserve it. awesome, awesome stuff. oh, he is so does. she s been known for her uneven bars and turns out she s got it all. she s the whole package, coy.