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900,000 shots being given every day, mean time with the delta variant sending people, kids, to the hospital. regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. in texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed mask mandates. governor abbott and some people in there political party following president trump has politicized this masking, public health and vaccination when there is no politics. the virus doesn t care what your politics are. what your political party is, how you feel about any issue. that is dallas county judge clay jenkins. he ll be joining us shortly. first, chief medical correspond dr. sanjay gupta and the distributor of minnesota center for disease and research and policy. sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible? yeah. i think we re talking nine to ten million people here, three to four percent of the population. for example, ca ....
california governor ordering regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. in texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed mask mandates. dallas county the latest today. governor abbott and some people in there political party following president trump has politicized this masking, public health and vaccination when there is no politics. the virus doesn t care what your politics are. what your political party is, how you feel about any issue. that is dallas county judge clay jenkins. he ll be joining us shortly. first breaking vaccine news first, chief medical correspond dr. sanjay gupta and the distributor of minnesota center for disease and research and policy. sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. for a third dose. can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible? yeah. i think we re talking nine to ten million people here, three to four percent of the population. whose immune syst ....
medication that suppresses the immune system and of course organ transplant recipients. a recent study found vaccinated immune know know xroez xro the surgeon general says immunocompromised americans probably won t be the only group to receive a third shot. it is likely that boosters will be needed for a broader segment of the population. what we re trying to figure out right now is the right timing for when to initiate those additional doses and also who those doses should be available to. based on where the need is greatest. the cdc now says pregnant women should get vaccinated against covid-19. that represents a bit of a change from the previous advice that simply said women could get the vaccine. meanwhile, there is a chilling prediction from the world health organization, the director says at the current rate we could pass 300 million covid cases worldwide by early next year. that is 100 million more than the 200 million reported as of last week. so let s bring ....
less than an hour away from officially introducing him. we ll go live to paris for that. and tropical storm fred forms in the caribbean and barrels toward florida. the latest forecast just ahead. good to have you with us. president biden is taking his covid vaccination campaign to business leaders, he will meet with a group of them later today to discuss strategies for getting more americans vaccinated. the meeting comes as three major u.s. airlines have announced they will not require employees to get vaccinated. delta, southwest and american airlines say they are encouraging employee vaccinations but won t mandate them. but uhe nited says its employee need to get vaccinated by late october or risk getting fired. right now more than a half million americans are getting their shots each day, highest since june, but about 30% of eligible americans are still unprotected and that is a big concern as millions of children head back to the classroom. many not yet eligible t ....
give their staffs time off, not only to get themselves vaccinated but also to get tear family members vaccinated. today, i am calling on all states and local governments to use funding they have received including from the american rescue plan, to give $100 to anyone who gets fully vaccinated. i am asking the defense department to look into how and when they will add covid-19 to the list of vaccinations the armed forces must get. every federal government employee will be asked to attest to their vaccination status. and anyone that does not attest or is not vaccinated will require to mask, no matter where they work, test one or two times a week to see if they have acquired covid. socially distance and generally will not be allowed to travel for work. the president also said he is asking that similar standard applied to anyone doing business in the government. as we said, this was just the latest on any such new carrots and sticks today. the los vegas police department ....