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administration. on top of all of his efforts to hold his domestic agenda together, to hold his own party to go for that matter, this is the eve of a major speech the president will deliver tomorrow in philadelphia. he will go there to talk about voting rights at a time when republicans are doggedly passing voter suppression measures from coast to coast. we don t accept the notion, and he s an optimist by nature, otherwise he wouldn t be sitting in the oval office right now, that it is dead. we don t accept that. we believe there needs to be a path forward. the president sees his role as somebody who can speak from the bully pulpit to elevate and advocate for the need to move forward on voting rights legislation. the president s speech comes as most of the democrats in the texas house of representatives have fled texas and flown to washington, leaving texas, leaving their legislative chamber without a quorum was the last-best thing they thought they could do to prese ....
effective in keeping us out of the hospital and averting severe disease. it is a bonus if they can also prevent what we call infection. you get infection, have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, they diminish that possibility greatly but they can t turn it off completely. meanwhile the highly transmissible delta variant now accounts for more than half of all new infections in the united states. that could be because the nation is still far from reaching herd immunity with less than half of the population fully vaccinated. there is growing concern that low vaccination rates across the u.s. could potentially wipe out of of the progress the nation has made in fighting the virus. athena jones has the latest. reporter: america s covid-19 crisis is not over. infection rates rising in almost half the states driven in part by the delta variant. low vaccination rates putting the country s progress fighting the virus at risk. the more unvaccinated people there are, the ....
but there was i lot of surprise about why fiez ser going to be doing that. why are they applying for this authorization, why is it necessary? they talked about waning immunity but there aren t studies that show waning immunity and pfizer didn t offer up any evidence of waning immunity. and this is a pharmaceutical company. they re supposed to specialize in data. the only data they pointed to is this israeli data. so take a look. we discussed this when it came out this week. so israeli data presented with very little back-up or science behind it that the shot is 64% effective at preventing infection and this is still with the delta variant being prodominant and 93% effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization. that second number is the more important. 93% effect as preventing hospitalization. that is an excellent vaccine. few vaccines are that effective. why is pfizer all of a sudden basically saying almost like it s own product isn t working as well as the ....
[national anthem] pete: that is our nation s anthem performing this morning on what we re kicking off independence day weekend here on fox & friends , doing it like no other show, i d like to think, honoring our nation. rachel: absolutely, no other show will be more patriotic than fox & friends on independence weekend. will: i think in all of our estimation somewhere tied perhaps in first place for the best holiday of the year, right there income and income with thanksgiving rachel: christmas, what are you talking about? will: it carries the burden of gift-giving [laughter] this is about togetherness and celebration. rachel: that s true. will: so send us your pictures. we d love to see how you celebrate with your friends, your family, your community, your barbecue, [email protected]. i totally winged that. pete: by the time we get through with the show, we re going to have flowers, the columns we re warming up. it s independence eve, and we re so grateful t ....
we don t accept that and there needs to be a path forward. the president sees his role is someone who can speak for the need for moving forward on voting rights legislation. president speech comes as most of the democrats in the texas house of representatives have fled texas and flown to washington, leaving texas. leaving their legislative chamber without a quorum was the last best thing they thought they could do to preserve voting rights there and try to defeat the republican voter suppression bill. they last walked out, you will recall, back in may. last night they landed in washington will they planned a lobby of democrats in the senate to pass a voting rights law. in fact some of those in the party of these committed texas democrats might shame them into showing a little spine. one other place would be go where we can actually seek some relief? we re still working on behalf of the state of texas. this isn t a vacation whatsoever and we re away from those who ar ....