to protect those already vaccinated, keeping schools open, increasing covid testing and mask requirements, economic recovery and improving care for covid patients. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly starts us off this morning. reporter: as president biden heads into what his top advisers are calling a major speech on the pandemic, he is really doing it with dual purposes. one on the policy front, no question amidst the delta surge more than 1,000 deaths per day, more than 150,000 cases on average per day, there needs to be policy changes or in this case of the white house policy advancements. officials say the president will focus on vaccine mandates both for the public and private sector, also particularly on kids going back to school. millions of kids going back to the classroom, the president with a focus on safety and testing. all of this underscores recognition inside the white house of the very real problem the delta variant has opposed, pot just poli
1500 americans nearly all unvaccinated, dying daily. and children, they are now being infected and hospitalized at higher rates than ever before. will the president s new plan get the country back on track? we know vaccine mandates for federal workers are in this plan, but does that go far enough? will it get us to will dr. fauci says we need to be? saying in a country of our size, you can t be hanging around and having 100,000 infections a day. you ve got to get well below 10,000 before you start feeling comfortable. let s begin with our senior medical correspondent. dr. fauci saying 10,000 cases a day or under to feel comfortable. how does he think we get there? you know what? i think it s all the same efforts that we ve heard about before. vaccination, masking, better testing, all of that. but there is a really long way to go to reach dr. fauci s goal. let s take a look at where we stand in comparison to that goal. so dr. fauci as you said, just said that well below 10,0
finally acknowledge without u.s. personnel on the ground they don t have the security protocols in place for our people. or to figure out who is who trying to get out of there. today president biden will attempt to change the entire subject by unveiling his six-prong strategy to fight the new delta vair yanlt 6789 jen psaki is eager the switch topics as well. a bit of her exchange with peter doocy. there are now more terrorists wanted by the f.b.i. in the new afghan government than there are women. does the president think that is a foreign policy success? no one in this administration, not the president nor anyone on the national security team would suggest that the taliban are respected and valued members of the global community. why are we engaging bill: with he have to engage to get american citizens and others out of the country. harris: republican senator ben sasse torched the president. the biden administration has given the taliban the upper hand from the ve
covid cases and hospitalizations are at levels we have not seen since early february. before the majority of the country even had access to the vaccine. they ve also leveled out and are basically flat in the last two weeks. deaths, however, jumped more than 30%. nearly all of them among the unvaccinated. going to say it one more time. nearly all the deaths recorded are unvaccinated americans. let s break it down, bring in mike memoli at the white house. cal perry, eugene daniels, and dr. paul offett. he is on the fda vaccine advisory committee. he knows what he is talking about. mr. memoli. let s be honest, the six points, all of us would say sure, let s do that. how is it going to happen? reporter: that s right, steph. we re going to get more specifics through the day. this is clearly a major moment for the white house after a period of months they moved from july 4th celebration of independence from the virus to seeing just in the past week in fact one of the highest dail
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