Those words as the cdc warns america s future right now rests on the unvaccinated. What they decide today will sti everyone s tomorrow. Officials say if vaccinating rates don t go the crisis can only get worse, possibly a lot worse. Hundreds of thousands of new cases daily and that will mean many more avoidable hospitalizations, more avoidable deaths, and new variants. Now hospitals are already at breaking points. Children s hospitals seeing spikes in cases, yet right now, more than 90 million eligible americans have not been vaccinated. 90 million. And the solution to protect them and all of us is available and waiting. As for the vaccinated, there is news today on boosters. We ll get to all of that. Let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly at the white house for us. We are reporting today the white house is considering a plan to withhold funding. The president didn t outright say it this morning, but he did hint more action is coming. No question about it. I think this is such a clear w
Turn the delta surge around. I will guarantee you that that will happen. Plus andrew cuomo is still the governor of new york. How long can he hold on and how quickly should democrats move to impeach him if he won t step down? we ll ask the mayoral candidate eric adams ahead. And the republican hunt for help in georgia. Football star her shell walker is donald trump s celebrity pick, but team mcconnell fears walker will i am ploed and imperil the gop s chance to retake the senate. We begin this hour with more covid warnings from the biden medical team. Louisiana and mississippi are the troubled states. Those seven states account for half of covid cases and hospitalizations nationwide. Let s get straight to the white house and our chief correspondent kaitlan collins. New urgency from team biden. Reporter: yes, they did have some positive news to share, john, which is yesterday 864,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine were recorded administered according to the cdc figures they have. That
Bill. Chuck schumer saying he intends to get the legislation along with a budget resolution paving the way for the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill through before the august recess. We are on track to pass both elements of the two track strategy before we adjourn for august recess. It took some prodding and a few dead line but it all has worked out for the better. We re going look at the road ahead with colorado democratic senator john hickenlooper who helped negotiate that bill. A house committee heard from some of the texas democratic law machers who fled the state to block passage of a voting restrictions bill as protesters march towards the state capitol in texas demanding action on voting rights. We re learning more about how far donald trump went in his efforts to get the justice department to help him pursue his false election fraud claim. We ll talk with a reporter that broke that story and get reaction from senate judiciary committee chair dick durbin. And nbc news washingto
Look how it spreads like wildfire compared to the onlial strain. It s danger. If infected the cdc says you are more likely to be hospitalized, get admitted to the icu or die. The good news? there s now more proof that vaccinations are working, preventing severe illness and saving lives tenfold. Vaccinated people can spread the delta variant as fast as unvaccinated. Hence, masks. But is it enough? dr. Sanjay gupta joins us on the phone. What more does this new data say? well, this gives us a really granular look at a particular outbreak. So it s interesting data. We ve been looking at a lot of these data sets and broad populations, but this looked at barn stable county, massachusetts. And i think we can show the numbers here. Basically they found that 469 people, residents were infected in the month of july. And 74% of them had been vaccinated. 79% of those vabs nated people did report some symptoms, and the delta variant, no surprise, because it is the dominant variant in the whole cou
And sars. And we now know that the delta variant does not just affect the unvaccinated. It is causing breakthrough cases among the vaccinated. This new data shows if you are infected, you can carry the same viral load in your nose and throat whether you are vaccinated or unvaccinated. And each infected person on average can infect 8 or 9 others. This delta variant causes more severe illness than earlier strains, so here is where being vaccinated really pays off. Vaccines still protect almost 100% against death and still roughly 96% against hospitalization. The cdc director, rochelle walensky, says she is not crying wolf here and other doctors agree. We can t pussyfoot around with this thing. We have to get more people vaccinated because this virus is better at its job than the original but it s going to take a while to do that, even if we re successful, so until then, we have to go back to more universal masking or else this thing is going to spread like wild fire. So we now know the r