Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early, the show that would drag race against President Biden and probably lose. Im Jonathan Lemire on this friday, august 6th. Lets start with the news. As the Delta Variant rages across the country, Hospitalization Rates are surging. According to the cdc, the number of people in the hospital with covid has almost quadrupled in the past month to over 45,000. Florida has a new record for the sunshine state. Over 2,500 of them are in intensive care. Florida has also seen a rise in pediatric cases. Texas is the only other state to conform more pediatric cases than florida. There, 142 children are hospitalized. A war of words between governor Ron Desantis and President Biden continue. Yesterday desantis was asked about the criticism of him when it comes to covid. Heres how it played out. Just two states. Florida and texas account for one third of all new covid cases in the entire country. I say to these governors, please help. If youre not going to help,
People who are here, there haven t been these outbreaks, and organizers of the events say really largely that has to do with the percentage of people in the bubble who are vaccinated. those numbers are between 70% and 80%. that includes athletes, organizers, media, all of it. it ends up being in an interesting kind of way this case study of how a highly vaccinated population deals with the delta variant or, you know, any kind of virus spreading rapidly. so it will be a success, i think, viewed by organizers and something that they take with them to beijing for the winter olympics, jonathan. stephanie, you led me to my last question. it s hard to believe sunday is closing ceremonies, but it s even harder to believe in six months we ll be doing it again for the winter games in beijing. quickly, what lessons do you think the olympics takes from tokyo? reporter: one of the big issues back to the topic of vaccination, there wasn t a
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Be? it s really been a democratic proposition. we ve had kind of the beginnings of hearings hearing from the police that were there on the ground. but we re going into august recess, so i wouldn t expect for the next couple of weeks we re going to hear more details, but certainly the work continues. they re staffing up. i expect in september we re going to hear more. they re going to have a regular drumbeat in the investigation of what happened, and the real question, what s going to happen with the calling of former trump officials, will the former trump administration say there s white house executive privilege or not? these things are still being debated and something we re still covering closely. anna palmer of punch bowl, thank you so much. still ahead, the accomplishment of a diver. way too early is back on this friday in a moment. way too early is back on this friday in a moment
Time since president biden took office coronavirus cases going up. and some republicans are pointing to it and questioning his leadership. and poll numbers suggest that americans, their view of how he s handled the pandemic has slipped a little. how effective do you think this could be as a campaign issue for republicans, considering it s largely republican voters in red states that are unvaccinated and leading to the rising cases? there has been slippage for biden on this issue but relatively stable approval ratings across the board. and there is republicans saying you inherited a situation you had the vaccine, you had to go administer it you only got so far. that was only so fair, there was a chaotic situation he inherited, the vaccine situation was a mess from the reporting we had about it. but the question is does that affect him politically that they