correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, this is, i think, really on everyone s mind as we re sending our kids back to school here. more than one in four of these new infections are children. how concerned are you? how concerned should we be? well, the problem is we have just so much viral spread. so even though kids, as you point out, are less likely to get infected, less likely to get hospitalized, you increase viral spread in the country by that much kids are inadvertently going to get infected. this delta virus is not as forgiving. let me show you something this labor day compared to last labor day. in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. 3 1/2 times more cases, 2 1/2 times more hospitalizations. almost 2 times more deaths. this labor day compared to last labor day. if you were to ask me last year at this time, shown me these numbers, i would say, i guess we didn t get to the vaccine. truth is we have a vaccine. these numbers should be a lot lower than labor day
allowing strangers to sue anyone suspected of helping a woman get an abortion. the new york times describes the court s decision like this. quote, the majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. it said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in novel and procedural question. the majority stressed it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the texas law. it did not need to limit proper challenges to it. justice sonia sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent. the court s order stunning, a flagrantly unconstitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny? a majority of justices opted to bury their heads in the sand. sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state s citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their ne
figure in the taliban. and they were inserted to go start that mission, to go find their target inserted by air, by helicopter. once they were on the ground, they ended up in some sort of significant fight on the ground. and a decision was made that a second bolstering force would be sent in. basically, to help them to bolster what they were doing and also to get them. that force was a considerable force. bringing with them a considerable amount of weaponry, skill, combat experience. almost unparalleled among the u.s. military. and that second force was sent in on one of these. a huge u.s. army chinook helicopter. there were 38 u.s. personnel excuse me, there were 38 personnel onboard that chinook that went in as that bolstering force that night. it was ten years ago this month, it was august 6th, 2011, and that night somehow it may have just been a lucky shot with a low-tech rocket-propelled grenade. but somehow, that gigantic chinook helicopter with all those men onboard
skill, combat experience. almost unparalleled among the u.s. military. and that second force was sent in on one of these. a huge u.s. army chinook helicopter. there were 38 u.s. personnel excuse me, there were 38 personnel onboard that chinook that went in as that bolsteringr force that night. it was ten years ago this month, it was august 6th, 2011, and that night somehow it may have just been a lucky shot with a om low-tech rocket-propelled a grenade. but somehow, that gigantic chinook helicopter with all l those men onboard was shot down. and the toll was absolutely devastating. everybody onboard was killed. it was 22 u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s, three u.s. air force airmen, five u.s. army and army national guard soldiers, seven commandos from the afghan national army. seven afghan commandos, an afghan translator. also, a u.s. military working dog that was assigned to members of one of the s.e.a.l. teams onboard. 38 personnel onboard. all 38 of them killed. that was the single d
young to be vaccinated masking is the most effective strategy for preventing transmission in schools. their data shows, quote, more than 7,000 children and adults acquired the coronavirus attended school while infectious because of close contact with those cases more than 40,000 people required quarantine through contact tracing and testing, however, we found only 363 additional children and adults acquired the coronavirus. we believe this low rate of transmission occurred because of the mask-on mask school environment, both the infected person and close contact wore masks. in other words, there s a less than 1% chance of passing covid on to a peer or adult in school if universal masking is in place. this is sound research from reputable health experts but then again so is this. on the same day, another article was published prominently on the home page of the wall street journal with this headline, the case against masks against children, it s abusive to force kids who str