Covid cases and hospitalizations are at levels we have not seen since early february. Before the majority of the country even had access to the vaccine. Theyve alSo leveled out and are basically flat in the last two weeks. Deaths, however, jumped more than 30 . Nearly all of them among the unvaccinated. Going to say it one more time. Nearly all the deaths recorded are unvaccinated americans. Lets break it down, bring in Mike Memoli at the White House. Cal perry, eugene daniels, and dr. Paul offett. He is on the Fda Vaccine adviSory committee. He knows what he is talking about. Mr. Memoli. Lets be honest, the six points, all of us would say sure, lets do that. How is it going to happen . Reporter thats right, steph. Were going to get more specifics through the day. This is clearly a major moment for the White House after a period of months they moved from July 4th Celebration of independence from the virus to seeing just in the past week in fact one of the highest daily Case Counts duri
Back on a more sustainable path. let s go straight to them. steph, evacuating the unvaccinated. more than a quarter of this country. step two, further protection for the vaccinated that may or may not need the booster shot. step three, keeping schools safely open. that s obviously a huge one. more than 750,000 cases of covid were recorded among children in the last month before school began. today, the los angeles school board could vote to impose a vaccine mandate for school kids there. remember, that s the second largest district in this country. point four, increasing testing and pushing mask mandates. point five. protecting our economic recovery. and point six, improving care for those that contracted covid-19. it seems to hit all the right notes. the real questions are about how much more the administration can do. here are the facts we know.