xfinity is here to inspire your biggest dreams we re so happy to say welcome to your new day here and to have your company. it is saturday, august 7th. i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. you, too, boris. we want to talk about the health officials who say the u.s. is at a crucial moment. hospitals overrun with unvaccinated patients and the delta variant is spreading. the country has tools to get the virus under control. that s the most tragic aspect of all of this. it is preventible. yet for the first time since february the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day and deaths are also on the rise. the virus spreading quickly through unvaccinated communities and as we look at this map, you can see all the red in the southeast where vaccination rates lag behind the rest of the country. in states with the highest infection rates, the numbers are
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