producing pretty mild disease. if you look at hospitalizations, they ve gone up but you can see that line is much less dramatic than the line that we just saw for cases. here answer the worst line, here s the line that is keeping people up at night. look at vaccinations. they ve gone down over the past month, about a month ago it was 425,000 a day, and now it s less than 100, gone down to about 170,000 a day. so that is a dramatic decrease. we just heard dr. fauci talking about how the people who are going to end up in the hospital with omicron to a large extent, it is the unvaccinated. vaccination doesn t work perfectly against omicron but it helps a lot. people who are not vaccinated and people who are not getting boosters when they should be getting boosters really they are taking great, great risks. john? given that the surge we re dealing with, the fact that you just pointed out the vaccinations are going down, that is stark and sobering and
but not everyone is buying this. biden s push for a nationwide vaccine mandate for private business is being challenged in the courts and republicans are among the most vocal critics. this is the governor of alabama tweeting: overreach of government. suppression of freedom. these are two criticisms here in the uk. health secretary sajid javid has other concerns as well. i think it s unethical and also i think that, at a practical level, having some kind of universal mandate for vaccination doesn t work. there s another issue as well that forcing people to do something may deepen their resolve not to do it. this is the academic steven reicher. we re seeing resistance to stricter covid rules. these are protesters
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again. start with dr. chu, as we learn more information on the delta variant, what changes, if any, should vaccinated americans be making to their daily lives? well, based on the new cdc guidance, the push is really for vaccinated people to understand there are circumstances in which they need to go back to some of the layered security safety measures we had. vaccinated people in many places need to wear masks indoors, that includes in places where there s hi prevalence, substantial or high prevalence of covid, and includes if they have high risk conditions, if they don t have normal immune system, or if they have medically vulnerable people at home. i think it is not to say vaccination doesn t work, we have good protections, but there are times to go back to layered protection since it is not 100%, and cases are rising everywhere.