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. Theyve 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. Lets 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. Lets be honest, the six points, all of us would say sure, lets do that. How is it going to happen . Reporter thats right, steph. Were 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 daily Case Counts duri
Significant. And this call for schools to implement regular testing. Talk us through what youre hearing from sources. Reporter hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the Covid19 Pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the Delta Variant changed those plans. White house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything theyve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. One of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. We talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a Vaccine Requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid19. What the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. You have to be vaccina
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