For the safe upcoming school year. Now, earlier at the White House today, the covid Response Team released new numbers showing that 83 of all counties in the country are reporting a substantial or high transmission rate. And this is all counties. But theres also a spike in vaccinations. 864,000 over the last 24 hours, the most in more than month. Clearly americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected. And the response is doing their part by rolling up the sleeve and getting vaccinated. And that is where we start with heidi prybylia, and the director of the national Preparedness Leonard and also our national correspondent on health, and so i apologize ahead of time if i have to cut you off with the speaker who makes it to the podium. What did we learn, heidi . Well, he is clearly concerned with the politics of the parents who wont go along with it. The administration is through a number of pediatricians, and the american academy of pediatricians working in concert
Welcome to mtp daily. I am chuck todd. I have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the United States, so goes the biden presidency. As pandemic numbers increase, the president s numbers are starting to decrease. More than a month ago, President Biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the United States flat lined to 10,000 a day. We are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. Cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. The administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. The Education Secretary will be at the white House Press Briefing, expected to begin any minute. Well keep an ear on what he says. We have an idea what theyre proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, High Transmission of the virus. Some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records, Running Out of bed
A window here to get more of this vaccinated. What you cant mandate, the biden administration is hoping it can achieve working through sports physicals, working with The American of pediatrics, as well as new Guide Ambassador to pediatricians and forms that they could use to deliver these physicals, about 60 to 70 of the nations kids do participate in team sports. They think that he a good way to reach them. Also working deploying pediatricians to attend those first backtoschool meetings to get all kids vaccinated. Im going to throw up a couple of maps to illustrate why we have the perfect conditions. All of these overlap with actual bans on mask mandates. States like arkansas, oklahoma, florida and that is why when the Education Secretary spoke with us exclusively, he sounded a note of urgency. Heres what he said. I would hate to see this year the same level of disruption in our classrooms because of decisions that adults made. Unfortunately as you know, it become politicized in some
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mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou