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the beginning of a pretty big surge going across the south. reporter: delta can spread as easily as chicken pox. t ea ithat anyoned t for you? eks. readachchettshe c.d.c. s cause resort community of provincetown, all traced back to celebrations in early july. of the 469 positive cases, 74% were vaccinated. as bad as this is, i worry it s going to get worse as the school year opens. reporter: the worry is already being felt in decatur, georgia, where classes begin on tuesday. nine students and five staff members at a charter school tested positive for covid. now more than 100 students are in quarantine. in florida, new covid cases topped 17,000, numbers the state
reporter: and in those internal c.d.c. documents, a recommendation that masks be reinstated unilaterally across the country, not just in those covid hot spots. but the c.d.c. has yet to make that official. norah. o donnell: all right, thank you. and this just in, actually. president biden was just asked by our weijia jiang if americans should expect more covid restrictions. and he said, in all probability. another element there. charlie de mar, thank you. let s bring in our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. he speaks regularly with c.d.c. director rochelle walensky and other top health officials. dr. lapook, so glad you are here. all right, let s talk about this, because the c.d.c. using those words the war has changed, what exactly does that mean?he well, the war has changed because the enemy has some new weapons. it s more transmissible, more infectious, probably more deadly. remember in may when the c.d.c. relaxed its guidance about mashes, back then the delta va
watch a show on broadway. cbs dr. jon lapook will join us in just a minute to explain it all, but we re going to start this friday night with cbs charlie de mar in chicago. good evening, charlie. reporter: good evening, norah. this is the second day of lollapalooza. the four-day festival brings about 100,000 people each day. this is by far the city s largest event since the start of the pandemic. and just within the last couple of hours, the city reversing course, recommending that masks begin to be worn inside once again. but looking around the festival here, masks are few and far between. it s alarming news to a pandemic-weary nation. the c.d.c. now warning that vaccinated americans can transmit the delta variant as easily as those who are unvaccinated. but the agency also says that 97% of those hospitalized with covid have not been vaccinated, this as the virus rages out of control, especially where vaccine rates are low. i m worried that this is just
somebody who was vaccinated and you got a breakthrough infection, that you were probably unlikely to spread it to somebody else. now, new information, new data out today from the c.d.c. says that if you are vaccinated and you get infected nevertheless with delta, you re probably just as likely as somebody who is unvaccinated and gets infected to spread it to somebody else. so, the enemy changes its tactics. the c.d.c. changes its tactics, just as it should. o donnell: i know someone personally that happened with. i want to show you this graph also from the c.d.c. it shows just how much your risk decreases from getting covid, being hospitalized from covid or dying of covid just by getting the vaccine. that reminds us the vaccines are powerful. the vaccines are very effective. you have an eight-fold decrease in the risk of getting symptomatic infection. that helps explain what you mentioned earlier, relatively few people are getting breakthrough infections when you think about the ov
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