families. . fighting back. flight attendants, do you believe they re taking self-defense classes just to protect themselves now . good morning and welcome to your new day. it s saturday, july 31st. thank you so much for joining us. good morning to you, christi. good morning to you, boris. we are always grateful to have all of you with us. we begin with a grim warning today. health experts and officials say the current surge of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations is likely to get worse as long as large sections of the country remain unvaccinated. take a look at the map here because it gives us a good perspective of new cases compared to last week. every state there showing a surge fueled by the delta variant. the cdc says it can spread as easily as chicken pox and new cdc data say vaccinated people can transmit it just as much as unvaccinated. getting the vaccination is your best defense. we novak seens reduce the risk of severe disease or deaths three fol
scheme which allows people to test daily, but i think it s far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules. and feelings run high in tokyo, with protests against the olympic games as athletes and staff test positive for covid. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m martine croxall. the german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against global warming. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week s deadly flash floods, she also expressed shock at what she called surreal destruction . more heavy rain has caused further flooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports. we really need help here, she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why. as in so many other parts of western germany, people in bad munstereifel still can t quite believe what happened. we met gertrude here. volunteers have brought food, water. she told us she spent the night alone, upstairs, as wate
look how it spreads like wildfire compared to the onlial strain. it s danger. if infected the cdc says you are more likely to be hospitalized, get admitted to the icu or die. the good news? there s now more proof that vaccinations are working, preventing severe illness and saving lives ten-fold. vaccinated people can spread the delta variant as fast as unvaccinated. hence, masks. but is it enough? dr. sanjay gupta joins us on the phone. what more does this new data say? well, this gives us a really granular look at a particular outbreak. so it s interesting data. we ve been looking at a lot of these data sets and broad populations, but this looked at barn stable county, massachusetts. and i think we can show the numbers here. basically they found that 469 people, residents were infected in the month of july. and 74% of them had been vaccinated. 79% of those vabs nated people did report some symptoms, and the delta variant, no surprise, because it is the dominant variant in
transmissible. they have this data showing vaccinated people have viral loads the same as unvaccinated people when they get it. you re still far less likely to get sick, to be hospitalized and die. breakthrough infections are not so rare after all. while unvaccinated people are responsible for the vast majority of the spread, vaccinated people can spread it. so it s just a new point in the pandemic. the administration changed guidance on masking for vaccinated americans before this information came out. and there s a wonder, well, why did they do that? wouldn t it be helpful to see the science before the decision? what did you learn? we learned that they were so worried about this data that they felt that they had to get the guidance out even before the data was ready to publish. it should be published today. we should know more about it. there was a lot of frustration from outside scientists and experts saying, if you re saying this is the science you re basing this new
and sars. and we now know that the delta variant does not just affect the unvaccinated. it is causing breakthrough cases among the vaccinated. this new data shows if you are infected, you can carry the same viral load in your nose and throat whether you are vaccinated or unvaccinated. and each infected person on average can infect 8 or 9 others. this delta variant causes more severe illness than earlier strains, so here is where being vaccinated really pays off. vaccines still protect almost 100% against death and still roughly 96% against hospitalization. the cdc director, rochelle walensky, says she is not crying wolf here and other doctors agree. we can t pussyfoot around with this thing. we have to get more people vaccinated because this virus is better at its job than the original but it s going to take a while to do that, even if we re successful, so until then, we have to go back to more universal masking or else this thing is going to spread like wild fire. so we