symptoms. any any kind of symptoms. you should be honest and wear a mask to protect others. reporter: and also, jumping on to the stage, the l.a. county sheriff said in a statement, quote, forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted covid-19 to wear masks is not backed by science. he said the underfunded/defunded sheriff s department will not expand our limited resources and, instead, ask for voluntary compliance. it remains to be seen, how all this is gonna play out here in tinseltown and points beyond. reporting from los angeles, i m paul vercammen. now, back to you. well, it s quite a different picture in england, which is set to lift all of its social-distancing restrictions on monday. people will be able to return to restaurants, bars, and public life, without masks with some exceptions, including riding the tube. but life isn t back to normal, yet. the delta variant is fueling a surge in new infections.
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it remains to be seen how all this is going to play out here in tinseltown and points beyond. i m paul vercammen. back to you. u.s. vaccination rates have barely budged recently. president biden is blaming social media, facebook in particular. dr. anthony fauci agrees that misinformation is a problem. here s what he told cnn s jim acosta. disinformation and misinformation is really a problem. when we go out into the community and ask people why they don t want to get vaccinated, very often they come back with things that are really just not true. so that s one of the things dr. vivek murthy the other day made an appearance at the white house press conference and stressed the importance of countering misinformation with correct
mandated. i haven t seen the evidence to show that it protects you, the virus is so small. show me the science. not just what people, you know, what the media says. i think if you have cold symptoms, any kind of symptoms, you should be honest and wear a mask to protect others. reporter: also jumping onto the stage, the l.a. county sheriff alength villanueva cade forcing the vaccinated and shows who already contracted covid-19 to wear masks is not backed by science. he said the underfunded/defunded sheriff s department will not expand our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance. it remains to be seen how all this is going to play out here in tinseltown and points beyond. i m paul vercammen. back to you. there s a vaccination slowdown here in the u.s., and