Climbing. Its in southern states with poor Vaccination Rates. And a strong hesitancy against the shot, according to a Cnn Analysis of data from the cdc. Take alabama for example, The State has seen an average of 2,600 new cases per day. Up by 131 from two weeks ago. One State Health Official says theyve literally been throwing away doses because theyve expired with not enough people going to get them. But on thursday, The States sevenDay Average of vaccine doses administered per day was about 13,000, according to the cdc. Thats up from a month prior when the seven Day Average of doses each day Up To 7,000. Weve seen an uptick in vaccinations in hardhit states like arkansas, louisiana and missouri. What is suddenly motivating people to get the shots, State Officials say its partly driven by fears about the spread of the Delta Variant. And driven by date that a that shows that unvaccinated people face a much higher Riskch Death from covid. Were still taking steps backward. The rate of ne
Amid the push to address spikes in Covid Cases all around the country, but growing divisiveness in how we respOnd to that and the Vaccine Mandate itself and how far you can go urging businesses and restaurant to police the issue, to make sure youve been vaccinated. To Edward Lawrence at the White House On how far theyre going to push it at the federal level. Edward . Yeah, they are pushing that at the federal level. It start add war of words so to speak. Very clear at the White House here of the past. Texas and florida an increasing number of cases. Theyve called out both of those states for that. Now, they singled them out in fact. Both of them. They started the Back And Forth with governor rOn desantis. Listen to this. This is a guy that ran for president saying that he was going to shut down the virus. What has he dOne . Hes imported more virus from Around The World by having a wide open southern border. He went On to say the president should do his job. The white House Press Secret
Covid is surging today among the unvaccinated. This pandemic is spiraling Out Of Control yet again. And its spiraling Out Of Control because we dont have enough people vaccinated. There is real harm to you. Because guess what, more mitigation is coming, whether its masking or closures or kids having to return to virtual learning. That is coming. The u. S. Daily Case Count has more than doubled to 50,000. And people who need hospital care, a sign that theyre in a Bad Covid situation, has surged 58 over the last two weeks alone. These are numbers you need to know. The hardesthit places are often areas with Misinformation Problems and low vaccination. Florida, alabama, hurting. About 1 out of 3 people are vaccinated in alabama, and the number of people going to the hospital has more than tripled this month. And theres a story of two pandemics in america during this period of an available vaccine. We have the places with higher Vaccine Rates that are doing better. And theyre quicker to iss
This time. Now hes playing with house money. As president , he gets to lay out his vision for u. S. Foreign policy, much of it so badly damaged the past few years. Tonight the bidens are in england. Days ahead meet with british prime Minister Boris Johnson and the queen and attend g7 summit. Then Nato And Eu summits and closing out trip with meeting with Vladimir Putin. In a speech to u. S. And Uk Service members this afternoon he said he plans to let putin know what i want him to know. Were going to make it clear that the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and issues that matter most to our future, that were committed to leading with strength, defending our values and delivering for our people. Were not seeking conflict with russi we want a stable, predictable relationship. But ive been clear, the united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way, when the russian government engages in harmful activities.
Bombarding gaza. The military says they targeted homes of highranking members of hamas In Gaza and nine miles of tunnels. On the other side of the conflict, israelis in ber sheeba, Ashkelon And Ashdod ran for shelter 56 dozens of rockets were fired from gaza. Senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joins us now from jerusalem. Ben, the pressure to get a ceasefire is mounting. What is holding the israelis and hamas back from getting to that point . It appears at least from the israeli side they have certain objectives they want to achieve and they havent achieved them yet. Over the last 24 hours or so, theyve been focusing on whAt They claim are network of tunnels, they call it, metro under zgaza thAt They say hamas is using to move troops and material and rockets around. Hamas, for its part, continues to fire rockets into israel. Both sides are speaking with the egyptians, with the americans and others to try to perhaps work something out. In the past essentially the fighting st