Single dose. All this as schools are reopening across the country. Jonathan serrie is live in atlanta for us. Here in the southeast many School Districts have already reopened and here in Metro Atlanta several School Districts are reporting first cases of covid19. The numbers in the hundreds. The Delta Variant is more than two times as contagious as previous strains of the virus and although School Children, children in general are at low risk, relatively low risk for serious complications from the disease compared to older folks, their Hospitalization Numbers are increasing. In fact, twice as many kids have died from covid as they would in a previous typical flu season. Obviously this is something people need to take seriously and causing educators and some politicians to rethink mask mandates. Back in the spring arkansas governor hutcheson, republican, signed a law blocking School Districts and other entities from imposing mask mandates. He now regrets that decision. Whenever i sign
that was a fast three hours. we like mondays to fly by. thanks for having me. it was fun. see you tomorrow. so long, everybody. bill: good morning, the united states now returning to a grim milestone. we have not seen it since last winter hitting 100,000 new covid infections a day driven by the highly contagious delta variant. hope you had an awesome weekend. it s monday in august. i m bill hemmer, live in new york. good weekend. dana: rainy yesterday. bill: the theme. dana: a soaker but a good weekend nonetheless. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. new infections are up nearly 32% from just last week as tens of millions of americans eligible for the covid vaccine have still not received a