Officials, we need to see a much better coordinated messaging whether it s from the president or from the major agencies, whatever it is, they have to, behind the curtains figure out how to make this all cohesive and credible entirely along the process of making these announcements. dr. bhadelia, there is now a demand. the vaccinated have, i think, an expectation that the vaccine will continue to protect them. it is sort of the only solace in this very almost divided status of the delta variant raging and packing hospitals and impacting all the care not just for covid patients but if your kid has appendicitis you re waiting longer. if someone has a heart attack, your chances of surviving may be diminished in a place with packed icus. what is sort of the reality of what s happening in america and the vaccinated wanting to stay
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Summer, the fourth of july, president biden declared we re closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus. now we re at labor day. as nick laid out for us, we re averaging 1,500 covid deaths every day. icus nearing capacity or already there. what happened over the summer? what happened is a delta variant. actually two things happened. this pandemic is driven by behavior and the virus. and both behavior got looser, more people felt they were in the clear. those people who never were taking precautions didn t have precautions. and those people who were relaxed. and there s a much worse virus out there, much more transmissible. we have underestimated covid from the very beginning. the last administration underestimated it. and i m sad to say this administration has underestimated it, too. we were all hopeful when we saw