immunized even though they had been eligible for months because they wanted to avoid these restrictions. it does have a backlash. we saw tens of thousands of people on the streets of vienna on saturday protesting lockdown, angry about these new restrictions. police did have several arrests but what you re looking at here is europe s first true test, max. post vaccinations into the winter season as transmission rates go up and immunity wanes and what it means for experts is vaccinations aren t enough. you have to have the social restrictions in place along with the vaccinations. austria is taking a bold step of requiring everyone to get vaccinated, max. what that means is christmas could be under question for a lot of people across this region. selma, thank you. let s go to ben who s in bucharest because i guess the austrians could use romania as a case in point with just 1/3 of the population vaccinated and a real problem in terms of covid
we re going to hear the fda authorize j&j and moderna. for booster boots? for booster shots. we go into thanksgiving and the holidays with a whole new set of tools. it s going to be helpful. that makes me optimistic we re going to have a better holiday season. doctor, do you share that optimism? i think that we are much better off than we were last year. we ve gotten a huge portion of the country vaccinated. unfortunately some of us also had to go through the infection. we re approaching a period of time where we re not as vulnerable. we re going to see a hyper local pattern of outbreaks where places didn t have outbreaks in the past. the vaccinations aren t as high, you may see more infections in that area. the other things are the announcement about rapid tests. if you can really get the tests
requiring this vaccine. it is their decision about the health of their child. what do you say to parents? vaccinations aren t anything new. let s go back to polio. you mentioned in the 50s, every child was vaccinated in school for polio. as a parent, you make sure your child had a warm coat on the in the winter and fasten their seat belts in a car. children are too young to make these decisions an it is the responsibility of parents to keep them safe and part of that is making sure all appropriate medical treatments available to your child you take advantage of, and that includes vaccinations. talk to your doctor. listen to experts like dr. fauci and all medical experts will tell you the safest thing to do for children is to vaccinate them. and school it is important to keep children in school safely. an the president spoke to the politics driving the division around all of this. let me play that for you. right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pan
variant. when we see these pockets of the variant in the south, in these red states where the vaccinations aren t so high, we could see an increase in cases as the cdc warns that the delta variant could become the dominant strain in the u.s. in the next two months. expect the president to be balancing. the good news on the overall goal, the milestone they re hitting, but also to continue to say there is a lot more work to be done here, geoff. dr. gupta, to pick up on mike s point, what would it look like if the delta variant became the dominant strain here in the u.s., and what do we need to do to get to the president s 70% goal to suppress this thing? good morning, geoff. we ll see regional surges in places like the southeast. once we hit the fall, we re going to get cold, dry air. that s what covid likes, it likes cold, dry air.
this must be incredibly frustrating for 500,000 british people going to france on holiday. we ve been in the situation before. we saw with portugal and the advice change very quickly. but it s very difficult. people book their holidays, they ve now got to come back from their holidays and self isolate. you can imagine the chaos that will cause. some people won t be able to do it because they can t afford it. there s one other aspect that worries me, and that is this applies to people who are double jab. does that mean that the two vaccinations aren t effective against this variance was mike i don t know the answer, but i presume that possibly is part of the thinking variants.