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represent less than 0.8% of the 164 million people who have been fully vaccinated here in the u.s. so that is less than 1%. and 98 to 99% of the people who are dying are unvaccinated. so these are the preventable deaths. this is not like last year when doctors were overwhelmed watching the patients die as they tried in vain to save them, so now we have vaccines and while they are not to stop transmission 100% of the time, they do stop transmission in the vast majority of the people. and the people who are vaccinate and get sick are less likely to be hospitalized so say the experts. now to the flip side, and to say it is alarming is an understatement. it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated but that is still the epidemic of the unvaccinate and still in arkansas and louisiana and missouri is an epidemic that could have been prevented and the stories of the people in the icus saying that i wish i had been vaccinate and a final text message from a 39-year-old father to the w ....
pelosi s office. she said that the house committee will move on in without the buy-in of house leader kevin mccarthy. we will mo on, and the committee is in the process of hiring staff to that end. it is my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure that we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. now, mccarthy pulled the five appointees after pelosi rejected two of them, congressman jim jordan and congressman jim banks and both of them voted to overturn the 2020 election, and also the committee that speaker pelosi was nonqualifying, and also word on where they will take the election. and now liz cheney, the sole republican said that jordan was ineligible to serve, because he may be a material witness. for his part, mccartney accused the democrats for playing politics with the investigation. this is a sham committee by speaker pelosi. when we wanted to do a commission in janway, she said, no, it is political. ....
that is what prompted the sudden reversal from the cdc about the masks, and the agency is now considering requiring vaccines for doctors and other health workers since a startling number of them refuse to still get the shot. and there is an unsettling question as all of this comes to light. why did we first learn about it from the once secret document and not from the health officials themselves? however, and this cannot be said enough, the vaccines are still working. 97, 98, 99, and in some places 100% of covid patients being hospitalized or who are dying are the unvaccinated. look at the covid hot spots closely correlating with the places that have the lowest vaccination rates. it is not complicated, if you are unvaccinated, your danger is much greater. and top health officials are warning that if we don t crush this now, and get as many people vaccinated as we can right now, we could be several mutations away from total disaster. a virus strain so powerful that it is ....
capacity. they re storing wheelchairs and other equipment in the hallways because there s no place else to put them. they re planning on bringing someone in from the er any minute now. our colleague gabe gutierrez there in little rock, arkansas. that scene may look and sound family. here s why this point in the pandemic is far different than anything we ve seen before. this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. and communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. if you re fully vaccinated, you are protected against severe covid, hospitalization, and death, and are even protected against the known variants including the delta variant circulating in this country. a pandemic of the unvaccinated. 97% of those hospitalized right now are unvaccinated. and listen to this, because it s so stunning, we had to make sur ....
bipartisan infrastructure plan and it has passed a critical vote with 17 republicans joining the democrats. senator mark warner, a democrat, joining us in five minutes with more on that. including $119 billion for roads and bridges and $66 billion for railways and $65 billion for broadband and $55 billion for water. it is a duty of government. and even faint praise by mitch mcconnell, the senate leader. but even still, it has to go through the house where they say it does not go enough, and the separate $3.5 trillion that the democrats will pass without the republican support. because of to vote last night, the senate is now moving forward with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and we are on track to pass both elements of the two-track strategy before we adjourn for august recess. and let s kick it off with the nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, and it is good to have you with us, friend. how soon could the senate move on this, and what happens ....