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and they re the ones largely dying compared to others who are vaccinated. let s talk with medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth? this is an unfortunate story. it did not have to happen. it was hoped if enough of us got vaccinated that we could protect the vulnerable, people who are immuno compromised. the vaccine often doesn t work out so well for them and they are not protected. but it hasn t worked out that way. vaccination rates are so low that we re not protecting these vulnerable people. let me introduce you to one of these vulnerable people. kimberly cooley, who lives in m mississippi. she s there with her two 6-year-old nephews prepandemic. in the county she lives in only about 37% of people are vaccinated and that means she can t get near her two nephews. again that photo is from before the pandemic. kimberly did get vaccinated and she posted it on twitter when she did. she said hey, let s all do our part. i m get ting vaccinated. we all need to do ....
censorship. i m jacqui heinrich. griff: and i m griff jenkins. and the president has words. let s go to the white house lawn. white house officials are doubling and trippling down on the president as comments on facebook. and the officials at the white house see this as a way to take aaggressive and stance to root out misinformation on facebook, on twitter on any type of social media, a way to stop this. right now we re looking at the delta variant, incredibly serious around the country if you look at the numbers, they re climbing when it comes to the delta variant. two weeks, griff, after the president declared independence from the virus on july 4th, those numbers continue to go in the wrong direction. let s look at the latest numbers just a few hours ago from the c.d.c. about 160 million and a half people are fully vaccinated. that s 48.4% of the total population not nearly where the white house wants to be in the pandemic. the president is looking at the social me ....
will abide by those new guidelines. coming up what dr. marty makary makes of the guidelines. first, we go to peter doocy standing by at the white housekeeping track of, this seems to be changing now. peter, what do we know? sandra, we know now it s all different. the cdc said on a call earlier this hour that fully vaccinated people have a very low probability of becoming very sick with covid-19. but there s a better chance that they could carry this delta variant and pass it along to someone that is not been vaccinated. so now in high transmission areas in this country, they track it county by county and the counties with the highest transmission they want people wearing masks again regardless of vaccination status that affects people right now during the summer. once it s back to school, it affects everybody that has to go to a school. cdc recommends that everyone in k-12 schools wear a mask indoors including teachers, staff, students and visitors regardless of vac ....
where you are. it s literally within one or two miles any where you are in the united states. if everybody were to get vaccinated, the whole pandemic in the united states wour over, finished, kaput. and yet, we are struggling like a country that doesn t have the vaccine. we have the tools to end the pandemic. we are choosing to live with it because one political party, one large media network and certain forces have decided to come together and to propagate a conspiracy theory that is probably the most damaging conspirery theory in human history. you think of the number of lives that are going to be lost because of the crazy conspiracy theories about the covid vaccine. i don t think there is any precedent. we have never seen anything like that it, and we have never seen as many lives directly related to the falsehood and my information. you said, what science has given, politics seems to be taking away. is this kind of political divide, when it comes to public health ....
we have vaccines free, for anyone who wants them. any age, no matter where you are. there it s, literally, within one or two miles of wherever you are in the united states. if everybody were to get vaccinated, this whole pandemic in the united states would be over, finished, caput. and yet, we are struggling like we are a country that doesn t have the vaccine, is struggling to get it. we have the tools to end this pandemic. we are choosing to live with it because one political party, one very large media network, and certain associated forces have decided to come together and to propagate a conspiracy theory that is, probably, the most damaging conspiracy theory in human history. if you think about the number of lives that are going to be lost because of these crazy-conspiracy theories about the covid vaccine, i don t think there s any precedent. we ve never seen anything like it, and we ve, certainly, never seen as many lives directly related to these kinds of falseh ....