Need to be considering the fact when we talk about the unvaccinated, our children are in that population. and because i have two unvaccinated children who are not eligible to be vaccinated for a few more months, we re going to scale back some things we were enjoying a few months ago after we got vaccinated just out of abundance of caution. dr. chu, some students are going back to school in a matter of days. a charter school in atlanta says nine students, five staff members tested positive for covid, that means more than 100 students are quarantining. what is your advice to parents who may be nervous about sending young children back for in person learning, kids who are not eligible to be vaccinated yet. yeah. there s a lot of guidance from the american academy of pediatrics and the cdc about the importance of going back to in person learning. it won t be possible for a some
This week. we talked to one 13-year-old who was a little skeptical, in the last week, decided it was best to do this before she goes back to class. i don t want to go to school, catch the virus. first i thought if i got the vaccine, virus went into my body, i saw people sick that didn t have the vaccine. that s worse, right? yes. reporter: the fear of actually getting covid. of course, that s a worse experience than perhaps feeling the effects of the vaccine for the first day or so. she was given the choice to make her own decision by the adults in her family, though they told me they tried to nudge the kids the right direction by telling them the benefits of being vaccinated and not just incentives like gift cards and money that people are responding to, for example, those kids told their family, they want to go on a cruise vacation.
67,000 coronavirus cases every day, that s up more than 50% in the last seven days alone, fueled by the delta variant. new cdc research shedding light on how much more contagious this more transmissible strain is. although the spread is driven by people who have not been vaccinated, that s the majority of driver, vaccinated people infected with coronavirus can be contagious as well. bottom line, vaccinations save lives, masks can go a long way toward helping keep people safe. we have a team of experts here to discuss this. dr. esther chu, jessica rivera, science communication lead for covid-19 tracking project, and dr. el-sayed. thank you to you all as we sort through this. i want to talk first about the cdc released a lot of new
Information, and some is different than we knew before. walk us through what it means, what stands out to you. there s a lot of nuance here. that s right. i want to give folks framework to understand how the delta variant is different than the garden variety coronavirus we were dealing with at this time last year. it has to do with how sticky this variant is in our anyways dnaso fpharynx. vaccinated people have enough to pass it on. that explains the difference. how much more infectious it is, rather than one case infecting two to three people, one case is infecting five to nine people. it explains why vaccinated people are potentially passing it on, and the cdc recommendation for vaccinated people in high transmission
A chihuahua? small terrier, yeah. but a baby? last thing to come to your mind. 58 hours: the baby jessica story, a cnn shortfilm at 9:00 eastern tonight right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining me today. i m jessica dean. boris sanchez picks up our coverage right now. hello, everyone. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m boris sanchez in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we start with a fight to eradicate covid-19. it s a fight that is evolving and the president of the united states is warning that americans should soon expect new guidelines and restrictions as the rate of new covid cases continues to rise, the biden administration is dismissing the idea of lockdowns, but it is