infected and then a month later, a couple months later, be infected again. reinfected is a real concern given the subvariant. look at me. you at me at reinfection, sanjay, there does seem to be a heightened risk of reenfection th there. what is the importance of government allowing for second booster shots for everybody? yeah, this is really interesting. i think oftentimes, the data kind of tells the story here. let me show you, people often ask me this, how much protection do the vaccines really offer. this is basically looking at the likelihood of death according to your vaccination status. first of all, the biggest story is still unvaccinated versus vaccinated. the black line is unvaccinated. obviously, a much different death rate there as compared to vaccinated. but if you look at the bottom lines there, you start to see another story start to emerge as well which is people who have received their vaccines and have
need to be taken seriously a subvariant of the weakest variant that we all got? so it needs to be taken seriously. everybody wants to put this pandemic behind us and feel around hope it doesn t exist. it does. message is simple essential these americans as the doctor said get their second booster shot right away. jesse: media are in lock step hyperventilating over new scary variant. health and human services secretary xavier becerra who i didn t know existed until just now said this. most everybody who is an expert on pandemics and these viruses will tell you that strong chance that we will see a resurges of the virus whether the variant we have now or new variants. wait a second are mask mandates coming back? lockdowns? should would he be prepared to
fuel a new increase in cases. joining us is cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. so, sanjay, tell us about this variant that may behind this, in part, at least to alleviate this, the ba.5 variant? yeah, so, this is another subvariant that s very different than the previous subvariant. that s one thing to keep in mind. we call these things by their sort of same name, subvariant. but the real question how different is it from the previous subvariants, and this one s pretty different and growing quickly. as you can see, it s now the dominant subvariant in the country increasing significantly over the past week. so that s one thing to keep in mind. the second thing because it s so different from previous subvariants, the protection that you get from either having been previously infected or from the vaccines is going to wane more quickly with this as well. so the idea that someone can be
all this coming as one variant dominates recent infections. correspondent charles watson has the story tonight from atlanta, home to the cdc. the cdc and fda are considering plans to offer a second booster to all adults. this as concerns grow over a summer surge in data that show weakened immunity within months of taking the first booster. if you have been infected or vaccinated and your time comes for a boost, that s when you should go and get the boost. feeling concerned is ba 5 is the latest subvariant representing 60% of the 130,000 cases the u.s. is averaging every day. as more americans rely on at home tests. experts say infections could be as much as seven times higher and it could put the country at a dissed a van teenage should cases and hospitalizations grow. the biden administration confirmed the purchase of 100 million doses of pfizer s omicron target vaccine in an
holly williams, cbs news, dnipro, ukraine. today a scare for passengers on a spirit airline flight in atlanta. the jetliner s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire on landing, causing some sparks and smoke. first responders hosed down the brakes and the plane which had to be towed to the gate. no one, thankfully, was injured. now to the latest on those wildfires out west. the washburn fire in yosemite national park has grown to more than 1,600 acres with fire crews working to save the towering sequoia trees. some of the trees are more than 2,000 years old. in utah, mhundreds of firefighters are battling multiple fires that are spreading thick smoke and affecting the air quality there across salt lake county. also spreading quickly, covid. it s a new summer surge fueled by what may be the most contagious subvariant yet. new daily infections now number more than 108,000. hospitalizations are also up 18%.