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covid-19. look at map on your screen. that s every area you see in orange and in red. the cdc is requested to recommend that students and teachers wear mask in schools k through 12 schools raegardless f vaccination status. let s bring in dr. sanjay gupta and white house correspondent kaitlan collins. is it your understanding that this is not universal masking. you have to know what the transmission rate is in your own community and this is for indoor mask wearing? that s the understanding that i have is we re talk about indoor masking for vaccinated people. that s the big change. unvaccinated people, the recommendation was they wear masks indoors. this would be for vaccinated people. in areas where there s high or substantial viral transmission. i think you put up the map, we can show it again. it s about two third offense the country that sort of fall into this higher substantial spraead sort of area here. we know there was some pressure on this administration to ....
down. the daily average is now less than 300,000 people a day getting vaccinated versus when the daily peak was at one time more than 3 million. in june, more than 99% of hospitalizations and deaths in the u.s. were among the unvaccinated. the delta variant of course accounts for 58% now of all new covid cases. one health official sees it this way. america is splitting into two nations, the vaccinated and the infected. let s go to florida and infectious disease expert says there has been a 125% jump in cases since june. cnn s leyla santiago joins us from miami. so hospital officials are telling you they re seeing more covid patients who are in their 30s and 40s. reporter: right, victor. where we are right now, the jackson health system, they said just over the past weekend they saw more than double the covid-19 patients than they had earlier in the month. when you talk to the experts, when i spoke to the infectious disease expert earlier, she was quick to point out ....
cnn the president will layout the, quote, moral case for voting rights. there is president biden at this is the last hour. that s him at joint base andrews. he will be heading to philly soon. he also will launch a pressure campaign against voting restriction laws enacted by mostly republican-led state legislatures across the country, fuelled by the big lie that donald trump did not lose the election, though he lost by 7 million votes. since the november election, state lawmakers have passed 28 laws in 17 states that restrict ballot access. this is according to the brennan center for justice. president biden s speech comes after senate republicans blocked even beginning debate on a sweeping federal election reform bill. that was just a few weeks ago. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is in philadelphia. kaitlan, what else is the white house saying about the speech that is coming? reporter: well, a lot of this has to do with those calls that have c ....
for you on the left, can you counter it? contrived culture wars with a side dish of election fraud farce. democrats better be watching. the trumper governor there, greg abbott, called a special session today to push this agenda. and it is very campaign-ish. a revised voter restriction bill. it s revised because if you ll remember state democrats blocked the gop s initial attempt. remember they staged a walkout, said we re not going to be part of this attempt to suppress the vote. it happened back in may. just a few minutes before a house deadline. but it was kind of the only bullet they had to stop it. they don t have the votes. will another walkout work, or is it just delaying the inevitable? the real question, though, is why the governor is now saying, now, that he must fix something that he admitted in the past was not broken. listen. right now i don t know how many or if any elections in the state of texas in 2020 were altered because of voter fraud. so he didn ....
bill. it s revised because, if you ll remember, state democrats blocked the gop s initial attempt. remember, they staged a walkout? said we re not going to be part of this attempt to suppress the vote. it happened back in may. just a few minutes before a house deadline. but it was kind of the only bullet they had, to stop it. they don t have the votes. will another walkout work? or is it just delaying the inevitable? the real question, though, is why the governor is now saying, now, that he must fix something that he admitted, in the past, was not broken. listen. right now, i don t know how many, or if any, elections in the state of texas in 2020 were altered because of voter fraud. so, he didn t know. he suggested there may be none. no proof to bolster any sense that there was fraud, ever, came thereafter. nor, does he offer any. yet now, there is something he must fix. it is the game. but again, the democrat walkout may not work, completely, but it did soften the ....