this virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the next vulnerable person to infect. compared to the virus we had circulating initially in the united states at the start of the pandemic the delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains. it is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of and that i ve seen in my 20-year career. whether you re vaccinated or not please know we together are not out of the woods yet. dr. walensky there, the ceo director says the 7-day average of new cases in our country is up 53% over just the previous week. the areas in red on this map are those particularly hard hit. this is the cdc map. portions of in yellow and blue have moderate to low levels of infection. three states, florida, missouri, texas are home to about 40% of the new cases.
own constituents who have been contracting this virus. james, same question, both options gross. death toll or polling or a combination of both? well, first of all, it s been able for seven months. seven months after the republican doctors finally say, hey, we need to take this. tim and i have been texting back and forth about going to the rose bowl september 4th for the lsu ucla game. i don t know we re going to have it. these people are pro death in anything and football. this is ridiculous. people are now having to disrupt social schedules, having to move plans around. they re going to start closing things again all because these dolts wait until seven months after the vaccine is rolled out to get religion and say, hey, it might be a good idea if you took this. this is hurting the country and interfering with me having fun. and i wanted to go to the rose bowl and compare hat dos with
because of our out of control pandemic. japanese spent over a billion dollars on their olympic stadium. it comfortably seats 70,000 people, but not tomorrow. not at the event it was built to house. instead about 900 folks will be in the stands including the first lady of the united states, jill biden. there will be some crowd noise piped in to help with the ambient sound at some of these olympic venues, but that s always tricky. if you have other plans tomorrow morning and you miz it, the whole thing re-airs tomorrow night in prime time. there s so much virus in japan right now and so many athletes have tested positive, and let s not forget the director of the opening ceremony was fired for comments he made about the holocaust. and all up to and add it all up, rather, and here s how the guardian puts it. an unusual amount of
delta variant. i have high confidence in it. i got it myself. yes, we want people vaccinated. there s not one physician, not one doctor here who doesn t want people vaccinated. while today s press conference from the gop doctors conference was apparently meant to urge people to get their shots, they were also used to attack democrats. the new york times reports it this way, scalise and other republicans spent most of their time on thursday discussing unproven claims that the chinese had released a virulent human made virus on the world and charged the democrats had ignored it. the emphasis on this so-called lab leak theory was something of a surprise given the surge of infections concentrated in rural strongly republican regions of the country. remaining here with us are our guests james carville and tim miller. tim, so much comes up here. number one, let s not forget that the obsession with gina as
rerecommending them by itself isn t going to convince a lot of people who in fact are probably the ones who have been most affected by it in the first place. the places where you would want more social distancing and masks again are the places where people are not, you know, not high rates of vaccination. i know people of course are not listening to president biden s advice in the first place. so it s kind of a catch-22 cycle that he s on where the choices are limited. and i think the frustration for biden, of course, is that he needs to get this virus under control in order to get done anything else he wants to get done wrosh right? if in fact we have another outbreak in the fall as now he s projected, that will make it that much harder to get the economy going. that will make it that much harder to get life back to normal and all kinds of in parts of the country. and i think he ll be judged in those and be judged on his ability to get us out of this you know, the situation we ve be