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aside and let government get back to governing. his resignation takes effect in 14 days. that announcement comes exactly a week after the new york attorney general released her report that alleges he sexually harassed 11 women. the governor though is still defiant. he says the most serious allegations have no credible factual basis in that report, and we re getting some reactions now as you would expect. the white house says that the governor s resignation is what president biden has called and advocated for, and new york mayor big de blasio issued a statement. here is part of it. make no mistake, this is the result of survivors bravely telling their stories. it was past time for andrew cuomo to resign, and it is good for it is for the good of all of new york. and the state s two senators say that governor cuomo made the right decision to step down. cnn s jim bringrass is here with me now. we understand you are getting reaction from some of the accuser s attorneys. ....
is good and i believe that some people on their own once it get as proved as a full approval, will go ahead and get vaccinated. but for those who do not want, i believe mandates at the local level need to be done. joining me now, cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. so dr. fauci calling for vaiccie mandates. i think i want to be clear. people hear vaccine mandates, they think government is going to come in and tell me that i have to get vaccinated or i will go to jail. that is not what we re talking about. we re talking about mandates usually by say an employer or by your school. vaccine mandates at that level. or a state saying our employees have to be vaccinated. this is not a mandate like you have to get car insurance. it is not that kind of mandate. it would work differently. so let s take a look. there are actually three states that have already done mandates, again it is for some groups. it is not for everybody. it might just be for example in new york a ....
resulting in hospitalization or death. now, this data includes cases up to august 2nd, after the delta variant took over the majority of u.s. infections. that is the good news. here s the troubling news. for the third day in a row, the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new cases of covid a day. we ve not seen that level of transmission since february. remember, that s when just 3% of the country was fully vaccinated. now, as the cases add up, so do the hospitalizations and the deaths. today more than 66,000 people are in hospitals sick with covid. the nation s top infectious disease experts are concerned that additional variants, more dangerous than delta could form. lucy is following the latest developments including what the latest surge will do to children as they return to schools. reporter: as children across the nation head back to school, covid-19 cases are surging. hospitalizations and deaths have nearly doubled over the last two weeks. the u.s. is now avera ....
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 th ....
understanding just how bad the coronavirus pandemic is once again. it is been one month since president biden said this. today we re closer than ever to declaring our independent from a deadly virus. but the reality one month later is alarmingly different. take a look at these maps. one month ago, this was the level of covid transmission across the country. now, watch the wave of red symbolizing high levels of transmission a wash across the states. this is what it looked like two weeks ago and this just one week ago. and here is today. red washed over the majority of the country. we are nowhere near breaking away from this virus. we are, in fact, being held hostage by it. here is how one front line nurse put it. we re a year into this and people still are making the same mistakes over and over again. and it was bad enough the first time around when it was all still new and you could at least the country ask nearing over 100,000 covid cases per day. dr. fauci w ....