vaccinated, and in many states, like in the state of georgia, for example, around 51% of the population is vaccinated, so unless we get our vaccination rates up, we are going to see major problems with transmission in the u.s. so we have to really, you know, take vaccinations seriously. i think that s why mandates make sense, and at the end of the day is really is important that we get as many people vaccinated in the u.s. as quickly as we can. we have ample vaccines. i think what you re seeing globally is countries like the u.s. like where there s too much vaccine and not enough demand and countries like south africa where there s a lot of demand at not enough vaccines. if people don t get vaccinate it had allows the new spread to spread and contaminate and allow that awful cycle we ve been living with you thank you. a rash of smash-and-grab robberies particularly in california. we ll be speaking with san francisco s police chief.
the virus gets worse if you have a good deal of the population that s unvaccinated. right. the math is simple. we still struggle. we ve had health care officials warning about this for six months now. yes, we need to get the vaccination rates up, as close to 100% as we can in the united states. if we really want to go after the variants that we ve seen, how much worse the delta variant is, if we want to prevent other variants from sweeping across the world and coming to us, we re going to also have to have a vaccination plan that aggressively vaccinates people across the world. again, to stop variants from coming into this country and causing the wide spread sickness and death. more later. coming up on morning joe, other headlines making news this morning. new polling shows most republicans don t consider the january 6th insurrection an
texas, for example, has huge nursing home clusters and the reason why is at some point in the study showed 50% of nursing home workers are actually vaccinated and so are potentially bringing in the virus and passing it on. mandates in those types mandates in those type of situations is helping the vulnerable, but if you don t do that the path, you know, we know the only way to get to the other side is we get vaccinated or, unfortunately, we get the infection. so the path open to texans and others where you don t bring the vaccination rates up, unfortunately, is to get the infection. i think most of us would say that s much more dangerous. it is going to end up with more people in the hospital, more people passing away and more people with long covid. you flagged this tweet for us. i want to pull it up. it is from andy slavitt who writes, i am hopeful that covid is reaching a peak in southern states. the key to this is stopping the spread in schools, which is also a really good idea.
continues and we target the hesitant groups as much as possible to prevent future vdela variants. so you mentioned a key thing, vaccinations. because when we re comparing here looking here in the u.s., we re hoping that we won t see the catastrophic numbers linked to the delta variant that some are predicting if we don t get the vaccination rates up, and that our infection rates will mirror the decline we saw there in the uk, but i m wondering if that is a false hope because our vaccination rates are much lower. and also it depends on the spread. and in the u.s. there are high regions where the vaccination rate is much lower than other areas. and that in particular means that you can have more aggressive outbreaks in those regions. and so i think all countries need to be looking at their strategies on vaccination to
it s still very protected even against the most circulating variance. but you have to look across the country, it s not one-size-fits-all. there are different areas of the country with low vaccine rates. i really hope we don t see horrible surges in the winter like we did over the last winter, but if these states can t get these vaccination rates up, they are probably going to have a rise in cases and unfortunately with those rising cases may come some restrictions. sean: we will be watching the full interview onie fox nation. we now turn to developments overseas, iranian backed militias reportedly firing rockets at u.s. forces in following this week s air strikes. damages are still being assessed at the u.s. base in easternse syria and so far no injuries have been reported. there was a reaction, carolina senator lindsey graham. cai don t know if i m allowed to talk about an off the record