it was a celebration of science when the president of john hopkins introduced her. he's trust the fact that she is a scientist that she believes in facts. that's not true for every word liter as we know. and that the university system in the united states kind of copied the german system. i'm actually self was referring to whom boyd as the grandfather of the idea that teaching and research has to come together in a university. so that was the celebration i shall say, of love between germany and the united states and a true commitment that science matters. her handling of the pandemic in as a feature in very prominently absolutely. i mean i'm going to, i'm actually from the very beginning, i think of a cold 19 made it really clear that she takes it seriously. she herself was wearing a mask film, and other leaders kind of put it down. she was one of the 1st who really said that this is a deadly worldwide. why rose, which only can kind of follow the world, comes together. she also stress the fact how important john hopkins university was in fighting the pandemic. becau

we heard earlier that she gave johns hopkins. she said, we can only solve the big challenges that we face through multilateralism and through strength and cooperation. and both of them will be looking to talk about that the bigger picture on, on multilateral cooperation. is there some way to put it on a stable footing, even if for example, the republicans were to take back one or both houses of congress in the mid term elections? what can be done to ensure continuity in the transit, lactic relationship, also between europe and the us. because these are countries that for all the differences that they sometimes have. and there are a number that are on the table that you're needing. but they, they share very strong values about how to address somebody pressing challenges we face, whether it's in terms of stabilizing democracy and restoring trust or the climate crisis we, we talked about the eviction that morocco bama has for on medical. what about george w bush? you know, he was interviewed this week by our washington bureau chief

where she is going to be honored with a doctorate from the world renowned johns hopkins university. while let chance america is one of the longest serving world leaders and we'll sit down after the general election in september, but she's not running as a candidate. she began her visit with a working breakfast posted by vice president. come harris is due to meet with president by halley me. and those were scenes from the ceremony that is getting under way. what we have team coverage for you with william blue cross here with me on that set. and our washington bureau chief in its pull right outside the white house. and guys, i just wanna preemptively apologize, i might have to interrupt you, shoot at the cell when you get underway in earnest, but want to go to you. in the meantime, 1st events in washington, slightly overshadowed, obviously by the catastrophic flooding taking place. here in germany, i understand the chancellor spoke about it. what did she say? exactly. she spoke about it and i just talked to some sources in the medical kam, and they said, you know, if this would not be

gives a johns hopkins michael bloomberg school of public health. thank you so much for joining us. have a wide -- jon and lisa have a wide set of questions. in august 2021, what are we going to in this next round of wearing or not wearing a mask? joshua: it is probably not a uniform recommendation given that vaccination aries so much across the -- varies so much across the country. where there is low vaccination rate and the virus is very common, it will probably make sense for people to put masks on indoors. i it is just to protect people until we can beat the virus back again. tom: what is the efficacy of a federal approach versus every city,, every town, every zip code for themselves? joshua: there is a middle ground here where the cdc gives guidelines. this is where you should seriously consider putting in place a mask requirement. based on the condition of the pandemic and each area, i think that would be a good idea. lisa: we are seeing protests around the world saying enough is enough. why should we live our lives in fear? we should just move on. how much do you respond to th

the fac page at johns hopkins university expresses our current level of knowledge very well. i think it says back scenes are likely to reduce the risk of virus transmission, but probably not completely for everyone. me . and that's all for this edition of our covered 1900 special for more information about the pandemic. you can check out the cobra, 1900 section on our website, d, w dot com. i'm w winter in berlin until next time. thanks for watching. we take the the news, the news,

she, in the words of johns hopkins university, which awarded her an honorary degree today. she seen as a beacon of principal leadership not only in the us and europe, but they said around the world. and they also talked about her background as a scientist. and about how she brings a scientists rigor to policy and politics. and i think you could say in a word in america, the chancellor is seen as the not trump. and she made that very clear today also in her various statements. and when she talked about democracy in which he talked about facts and truth, and those are remarks we've heard from her before in the united states, not least at harvard university when she was awarded an honorary degree there 2 years ago and gave some of the same messages and received one standing ovation after the other, particularly from those who are perhaps democratically inclined in the us and who are worried about the stability of democracy. do you think that she is worried about the stability of american democracy? i think she's worried about the stability of democracy altogether, and she said

an average of 49,000 new covid- 19 cases were confirmed in the last week according to the johns hopkins university tracker. and john lawrence has the latest on why so many have been hesitant to get the vaccine. >> reporter: the u.s. is facing another covid-19 surge this summer. >> so many people will get infected with this fake narrative out there that if you are young and healthy and take care of yourself you will not get sick. that is simply not true. >> reporter: every state has a seven day average that title rose above the previous week according to data from johns hopkins university. >> the new cases in covid are because of unvaccinated folks. almost 100% of them need hospitalizations are on on vaccinating folks. some of my family has been pushing me, but the delta variant kind of scares me. >> and others still say they will not roll up their veas cas are preparing for the start of a new school year. >> we continue to aggressively and intentionally educate our families and employees around the importance of vaccination. putting the data in front of them and highlighting our own mit

andrew pekosz with us of johns hopkins.uld join us this morning. the idea is that if i choose to be unvaccinated, how sick is sick when i get the delta variant? what is the level of sick we should expect? andrew: the data is rolling in now that the delta variant is causing disease primarily in unvaccinated populations and the disease it is showing seems to be a bit more severe than the disease we saw in similar age groups at the beginning of the pandemic. if you are unvaccinated, the risk from the delta variant is greater of infection and there will be a greater increase of severe disease from infection. there is nothing good about being unvaccinated when you think about the delta variant. tom: where are we on the vaccination process? i saw age over 12 vaccinated. are you pleased? andrew: i would love to see these vaccination rights get much higher than they are right now. we reached a stage where many of the people who are vaccinated now are obviously protected from disease. we have not reached those levels that give us a

we discussed with tober when johns hopkins university.his is the head of a really big day with u.s. cpi data and being bank earnings kicking off -- big bank earnings kicking off. it is the banks outperforming today ahead of those numbers. we are getting a bit of a flattening right now. sitting at 118 basis points or so and it is stronger in the space today including against the euro. i want to get back to the bond market and look at the 10-year treasury yield because we got a $38 billion auction. 1.36% after that. essentially where was before the auction. investors seem satisfied with the takedown. virgin galactic pulled off a key flight yesterday when richard branson completed a test flight to space. with us is ed ludlow who joins us from new mexico. space captures our imagination. we are watching with bated breath is richard branson took the trip to space. but what is the business case? how was virgin galactic going to make money off what we saw? ed: this really was the test phase. the plan was always for richard branson to go up and te

let's discuss as we bring in jennifer of johns hopkins.ngdom removing quarantine on tourists from the u.s.. jonathan: the u.k. to allow vaccinated residents to return without quarantine. theoretically if residents of the u.k. were allowed into the united states to travel directly from the u.k. they would be able to return and not quarantine that there is no reciprocal arrangement. there is no arrangement for you and i who have been fully vaccinated to travel to the united states directly from here and not quarantine even when this is brought in. this is the second headline, the way of removing quarantine on tourists from the u.s. and eu. you and i fully vaccinated they still don't have a plan to let us in without quarantine. tom: we will talk to the trent -- secretary of transportation about that. jennifer, i'm going to cut to the chase. we have passports, why don't we have certification of vaccination to make your life and professional lives easier? jennifer: i think we should be doing everything possible to incentivize people to get vacc

that was part of the reason johns hopkins gave her this award for her speaking of the truth during thepandemic. brent:nd a shes al iso a physicist and scientist. maybe the world needs a little bit more of that right now. it is always great to have you. thank you. rehe in germany, severe storms have triggered some of the worst flooding in decades. two people have died, including two firefighters. hundredsf o thousands of homes are without power. >> sweeping away anything in their path, these floodwaters have claimed homes and lives across western germany. emergency crews are trying to locate dozens of missing residents, some were trapped on rooftops as th water inundated their homes. rescue efforts are hindered by roads that have been ripped apart, raging floodwaters and debris. the german army has been deployed, clearing paths through the mud. >> you can see here that there is mud everywhere in the houses. the bridge there collapsed. there is water over it. further down, even houses have floated away. this is guaranteed to take 10 years to recover. it is just horrible now. these have b

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well, earlier she received an honorary doctorate from the world we're noun to johns hopkins university. she was awarded the university's finest honor that of the doctrine of humane letters in recognition of her achievement as one of the world's longest serving leaders. university president praise the chancellor's science based response to the start of the corona virus pandemic ball. in her acceptance speech, chance a miracle. look back on the impact of the pandemic on people around the world to take a listen. and let's see if i think back my last night it's late in may. 2019. come on, come fuck. it's hard to imagine what has happened since this time, 2 years ago, very few people and the thought of a virus when they heard the word corona, but since 18 months. now we have seen how the world has been in the grip of this virus and how it isn't changed world as well. the chances are they're speaking at moments ago. do you wash and burn in a pole is on the white house lawn were joining her there. i see at some commotion behind you. people are getting ready for the chancellor's visit to the w

we do that with andy pekosz, johns hopkins university professor.new york city this morning, this is bloomberg. ritika: with the first word news, i am ritika gupta. l.a. county residents must wear masks indoors even if they are vaccinated. authorities are reacting to a surge in covid cases and the highly contagious delta variant. l.a. county added 1000 new cases yesterday for the seventh day in a row. 10 million people live there. u.k. is holding out the prospect of restoring some of its pandemic restrictions just three days before he plans to drop all social distancing rules. the number of people hospitalized in the u.k. has risen 43% in a week. the country's general told the news that if the situation increases, researchers can be imposed. in cuba, the government is promising it will learn from the protests. authorities believes researchers on food and medicine imports. thousands took to the streets to demand freedom and food. cuba's economy shrank 11% last year. white house officials meet with representatives of the homebuilding industry to addre

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that is based on official numbers compiled by johns hopkins university.th can't is believed to be even higher. in the u.s., public health leaders said today that most new deaths and infections are occurring where vaccination rates are low. we will return to this after the news summary. organizers of the mmer olympics banned japanese fans from the upcoming tokyo games in the face of surging covid infections. foreign fans were already banned. the new announcement came as the government declared an emergency in tokyo lasting through the olympics. the head of the japanese olympic committee acknowledged the event will not be the same. >> the tokyo games were supposed to be a real opportunity to feel the power of sports and unite communities. i am very sorry for the fan and the local people. stephanie: the games are set to start in two weeks. today marks two weeks since a condominium tower collapsed in surfside, florida. the death toll now reached 64. another 76 people are still missing. on wednesday evening, emergency workers held a moment of silence as they t

and again, that was part of the reason johns hopkins gave her this award for her. speaking of the truth during the pandemic, and it doesn't hurt that she's also by training a physicist, a scientist in which the world maybe needs a little bit more of right now. or chief political correspondent, belinda crane has always been that of thinking there are here in germany. severe storms have triggered some of the worst flooding. in decades, at least 50 people have died, including 2 firefighters, many more missing. hundreds of thousands of homes are without power. helicopter crews have lifted stranded villagers to safety. the sweeping away anything in their path. these flood waters have claimed homes and lives across west in germany. emergency crews trying to locate dozens of missing residents. some with traps on rooftops as the water inundated their homes. but rescue acids hindered by roads that had been ripped apart, raging flood waters and debris. the german army has been deployed clear and passed through the mud. you can see and there is much everywhere in the houses,

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earlier she received an honorary doctorate from the prestigious johns hopkins university. she was award at the university's highest honor, the doctorate of humane letters in recognition of her cheek. mintz is one of the world's longest serving leaders. the university president praised the chancellor's science based response to the start of the corona virus pandemic. and in her acceptance speech, transamerica look back on the impact of the pandemic on people around the world. and let's see if i think back my last night in may 2019. come on, come 1st. and it's hard to imagine what has happened since this time. and the other 2 years ago, very few people and thought of that a virus when they heard the word corona, but since 18 months. now we have seen how the world has been in the grip of this virus and how it hasn't changed world as well. the chancellor, they're speaking at moments ago, did you wash and bird in its pole is on the white house lawn were joining her there. i see at some commotion behind you. people are getting ready for the chancellor's visit to the white house.

and later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the former physicist the other medical time of german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left a lasting impression on the us precedent. and if they make a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you at our summits. i would truly will with the bite and presidency us german relations, all comma, but big differences remain now to the corona virus pandemic. let's take a look at the latest developments. there are the new york yankees baseball team has been forced to postpone home games after positive cobra, 1900 tests among vaccinated players. a member of the nigerian olympic team has been hospitalized with cope with 19, after arriving in japan for the games. and the philippine has reported it 1st locally transmitted cases of the delta variant. 11 people were infected domestically in one person has died. now a vast area, a south korea's coastal plains known as the get bull flats in the running to be awarded unesco world heritage status. the title slaps are home to a huge variety of birds and anim

farewell tour of washington began with a breakfast with vice president carmella harris and later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the form a physicist. the other medical time is german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left a lasting impression on the us precedent. and if they are personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you at our summits. i would truly will with the bite and presidency us german relations, all comma, but big differences remain for more. now let's speak to john coin bloom. he's a former us ambassador did or did germany 1st off. nice to see you again, mr. bass for how important was this visit for us german relations? i think this is, it was very important if for no other reason then because it signified the end of a very harsh and difficulty or a trauma. but that there was many things to talk about. you reports showed some of the both europe and united states facing a major change in the way the world is rubbing. and it's very important that we understand each other and try to have as close coordination as possible during the .

at johns hopkins associate professor of emergency medicine. those issues are always far more complex than some make it out to be. tom: we touched on that with the line of what we have done over 150 years of taking illnesses away. can i just say to our team that is booking all of this that this has been a real joy through 18 months of this natural disaster to speak to multi-degreed adults who note the science and know it cold. jonathan: i cannot wait to startup -- to stop talking to them. they cannot wait to stop talking to us. we are all surprised we are still doing this 18 months out. many of us thought we would have wrapped this up. tom: the article in the washington post on hospitalizations and deaths is devastating. jonathan: equity market up 15. we advanced 0.3% on the s&p. yields are higher. from new york, this is bloomberg. (announcer) back pain hurts, and it's frustrating. you can spend thousands on drugs, doctors, devices, and mattresses, and still not get relief. now there's aerotrainer by golo, the ergonomically correct exercise bre

in washington for a final trip to america, the chancellor received an honorary doctorate from johns hopkins university. she's saying farewell visit to the united states. it's one of her final overseas trips at the germ. later later, she'll hold talks president show by stick with the w. a business of next week robots, and i'll think about what the out the old in december 2019 the european councils new president show me shows embarked on a ground breaking mission. i had a clear door to make europe the 1st time i turn things on the planet by 2050 not all member states support it. and some persuasion is required to surprise you into the very heart of our to us. because when the game diplomatic poker treat, how we're please, and alliances behind the scenes of the climate summit starts august 5th on d, w. the the merkel meets bite and in washington for the 1st time since he became president. there's plenty on the agenda, including the controversial nod stream to pipeline because the pat make any progress. it's just 2 months until the chancellor steps down. mostly coming up. a global push to close

the fac page at johns hopkins university expresses our current level of knowledge very well. i think it says back scenes are likely to reduce the risk of virus transmission, but probably not completely for everyone. me . and that's all for this edition of our covered 1900 special for more information about the pandemic. you can check out the cobra, 1900 section on our website, d, w dot com. i'm w winter in berlin until next time. thanks for watching. we take the the news, the news, [000:00:00;00] news news the the the he's broke in a new time rec, making linda's legal history. he has no intention of stopping. robert live in dusky. how did it all begin? and what made disable drive to take all the kick off in 30 minutes on d w. oh, the news was right in front of them. they're all for this one moment. suddenly we agreed to postpone the or didn't the games that tokyo or 202021 off course during the qualifying round, not least for sports heroes. actually it was a flap in the face. but now we just have to fight their mobilizing superpowers. i'm fired up and ready count down during

i went to general surgery at johns hopkins and did plastic surgery at johns hopkins and then decidedgo and do specialized training in taywan to learn how to connect blood vessels and nerves under a microscope and it just happened we were at wash in iraq and afghanistan. >> it was the injuries he was seeing on soldiers coming back from iraq and afghanistan that drove him to do facial reconstruction. >> that was the motivation. our face and our hands are the only part of our body that we cannot cover. they're exposed to the world. and despite advances in medicine, despite the development of robotic arms, we don't have a solution for the face. and a lot of these soldiers that were basically maimed by ieds, we did not have a solution. >> sean: when i would visit the troops in walter reed and then bethesda and i would see these massive injuries, and then i've had instances where i would follow cases, and the whole process of building out prosthetics, life-changing for these men and women that thought they'd never walk again. >> and that was the motivation to create a better solution for t

that was jeffrey rathke from the johns that was jeffrey rathke from thejohns hopkins university the johnsng thejohns hopkins university speaking to me a short time ago. the lebanese politician saad hariri has given up on his efforts to form a government, nine months after he was designated prime minister. he said it was clear he would not be able to reach agreement with the president after the two men held a brief meeting. tim allman has the details. for far too long now this is how politics in lebanon tend to play out. crowds clashing with security forces in beirut. a country without proper government, deep in recession, and descending further into chaos. there was who paid a price when there was problems with sunni and shi'ite. i'm a believer in dialogue. shi'ite. i'm a believer in dialogue-— dialogue. the president criticised _ dialogue. the president criticised mr _ dialogue. the president criticised mr hariri - dialogue. the president. criticised mr hariri saying dialogue. the president - criticised mr hariri saying he wasn't prepared to discuss changes of any kind and he will now co

nisha doll just with johns hopkins center. talk to you about the medicine realities within democracy and liberty. ian bremmer is talking from a political aspect. you represent the medical aspect. can you succeed at your medicine amid american democracy and our definition of american liberty? >> i think we can and if we are talking about vaccine mandates, it's one thing for the government mandate. that's very difficult and doesn't usually happen. we've got so many private organizations, employers, schools, transportation companies where i do think it's justified for mandates including in my own industry where we are struggling to get nurses. when we institute mandates, ec vaccination rates go up. it illustrates confidence in the vaccine. this should be a noncontroversial vaccine. tom: why are nurses afraid to be vaccinated? >> it's unclear to me. it's likely because they have swallowed misinformation. these nurses have seen something on facebook, specifically things about fertility, things about this being experimental and ther

the john hopkins researchers found that the cbc is barely doing anything to answer that question.'s reports on natural immunity and what that means and what the people who have it should get the vaccine or benefit or needed, they noted that that's guidance was outdated. outdated? a year and a half into this pandemic? these are relevant and vital questions. they are hardly denial of anything. they are the opposite. they are a search for truth. an open-minded one, a relentless one, and it will not be shamed into silence. that is what science is. and we should not allow ourselves to be bullied by political forces into ignoring obvious questions. we like to speak to responsible people who know something and we are joined by one of them right now. doctor, think so much for coming on. my understanding is that the vaccine does have benefits. it seems -- they seem to lower the effects of the disease, make it less severe on people. less likely to go the hospital. that makes sense. my objection is to the political nature of, the talking points we are hearing and using sin from anyone that t

gigi gronvall, a senior scholar at johns hopkins. johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health is supported by michael r. bloomberg, founder of bloomberg lp and bloomberg philanthropies. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i'm matt miller. now to something that caught my eye. the price of nickel rising for a third straight session, approaching a seven-year high on booming demand for the metal used in stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries. you can see metal outperforming on the bloomberg commodity index. i also like to use the command to look at the entire commodities universe. you'll see any metals having to do with batteries have done very well as carmakers invest tens of billions of dollars into producing more electric vehicles. our next guest is shane smith, chief operating officer of microvast, which just made its debut on the nasdaq. thanks for joining us. let's talk about what you do at microvast. you make batteries. this is exciting because we are figuring out ways to put more power in smaller pac

infections climbed to an average of 23,000 per day accordingo johns hopkins. that is up. remains of one of napoleon's famous generals was discovered. a1 leggett skeleton was found buried in a park. the identity confirmed by dna. he was hit by a cannonball during the french invasion of russia in 1812. you' watching bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's program. africa's last absolute monarchy is facing ptests. security forces are accused of a brutal crackdown. laura: in iraq people have died due to a fire. officials say the blaze is under control and the search is underway. reporter: this morning, relatives search for their loved ones. the temporary ward left mangled by the heat. the building was new, the structure tacked onto the side of the hospital. likely an oxygen tank exploded. promising repercussions for this catastrophic failure has ended up taking so many. laura: the kingdom in africa is seeing protests against the king. dozens have been killed. security forces have been accused of using heavy-handed tactics. this report contains distressing images. r

and later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the former physicist the other medical's time. as german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left a lasting impression on the us precedent. if they meet on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you in our summits. i would truly will with the bite and presidency us german relations, all comma, but big differences remain. d w reporter william glue crossed is following the chancellor's visit to the states for us by william. but we heard in that report the differences do remain. so tell us more about how those differences were discussed in these talks. good morning to me there's so. busy many differences in this relationship that have no clear strategy for resolving as much as they say, they want to resolve them and want to remain on a, a friendly, agreeable path. you have, you know, china, for example, the u. s. t as a, not just an economic threat, but also a strategic and military one, germany and europe more broadly has basically, she's only as an economic opportunity. you have your opinio

amber desousa joins us from john hopkins.nitive in net cancer and also infectious disease, a terrific career in medical research. amber, when someone mentions the delta strain, he comes down to every conversation is the infectious reality. do you have an understanding of how communicable the delta variant is? >> i haven't seen data to tell us exactly what the reproductive rate is, which is how many people each infected person is running into, but we know that the proportions of people who are covered positive that have this variant is increasing rapidly, which tells us it is definitely more infectious than the other strains. tom: looking at the exponential realities bacteria and viruses, where does delta fit in? is it a normal lung function, or is there something -- log function or is there something different to it? >> it is within the normal spectrum. this is what infectious diseases do. the more we allow an infectious disease to spread, we know it will mutate, and some of the mutations will be more transmissible. this is w

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the johns hopkins associate professor of emergency medicine.e had 50,000 people in wembley stadium watching the game. tom: there was a game last night? jonathan: we will go into that a little bit later. the broader point is that europe has been able to do this over the past month. if japan cannot do it they should've set a couple of months ago that they were not going to be able to do it and a lot of people are scratching their heads about the ability to get this done in the fashion people would like to see it done. tom: what is amazing is that the doctor is world acclaimed and she stole that line from surveillance. every morning we say why are we doing this? why are we doing this? jonathan: what is the exit strategy if still today we are focused on the same thing. are we in a pandemic in newark city, do you still believe that? tom: i believe that. jonathan: you honestly believe that with the honest -- with the level of death? tom: we are in elements of epidemic but much less than other places. i go back to what the doctor said yesterday which

joshua, from the johns hopkins school has been discussing with us the risks around the covid-19 deltacy to vaccinate or people. let's get an update. >> there are parts of america that are 40% vaccinated or 35% vaccinated and those are the parts that are not only seeing an increase in cases but also hospitalizations due to the delta variant. it is like, here we go again in those places. it is important to be vaccinated but more generally it reflects a big problem we are having. >> i get that but what we do the parts of the country that are 60%, 70% or more vaccinated? do we have to amend our lives because another part of america is down at 38%? >> as long as there are places at 38%, the places at 70% or 80% will be at risk. what about people that have conditions where the vaccine does not work so well for them? they are immunocompromised or children or older adults. >> i apologize for interrupting but this is a crucial point that i have not heard before. the vaccine does not work for certain individuals. how many people are we talking about? >> probably hundreds of thousands or more th

doctor marty makary is a professor at john hopkins university school of benefits and always welcome onmplain truth. its it's a campus full of art. >> good morning, harris. i think president biden had goo intentions, breakthrough infections have been known for long time, but it downgrades th infection when your vaccinated to a milder asymptomatic case. in massachusetts, they looked a 1,000 people vaccinated in one person got a mild infection for every 1,000 people vaccinated i their whole state population. our battle is not against the sniffles, it's against death an disability and overrun hospital and if we have a powerful tool that downgrades the two is seasonal mild common cold type of illness, that's not what we need to change society for. >> why can't you say that? none of us knows what he can sa that. we are monitoring right now the briefing by the white house covid response team so we will pop that up on the screen is cd director just said there have been a 19 percent uptick in the past seven days across an average she also warned about the highly transmissible delta variant sayi

she is a expert in infectious diseases and assistant professor oat john hopkins.t, it is obvious, the biden administration has tried to address that in rural areas where you see the lowest vaccination rates by going to gp's personal doctors because they trust them. are any of those efforts working to break through this. >> you know, jim, it is extremely challenging because we're so fortunate to have these highly effective vaccines available to us. and the problem that we're now dealing with, as miguel so nicely outlined is that we have pockets of the population across the country and that are hesitant to avail of these vaccines so there is a lot of community efforts engage these p populations, and help educate and allay the fears they may have about the vaccination. but they've been given to millions of people across the world and so highly effective and highly safe. and with this delta variant that is spreading through our communities, really waging through the unvaccinated population, this is truly a significant concern for hospitalizations and the health care s

this is accord ing to johns hopkins. there's a new issue concerning the johnson and johnson vaccine. >>> a new warning about johnson and johnson's e million hagotten the shot, about 100 people developed a rare but serious disorder. the cases have been reported in men 50 and over, about two weeks after receiving the so. >> we have seen this with one of the flu vaccin lef decade it looks liit'svery rare. >> the fda said the benefits of the vaccine out weigh the potential risks. >> we have this beat. >> the vaccines have allowed some areas of the country to resume prepandemic life. >> now we have wasted that opportunity partially, at least in parts of the country. if the delta variant is allowed to accelerate i think we could see more variants. >> since just last week average daily cases in the united states are up 30%. more than a third of them in five hot spots. >> everybody is tired of hearing about coronavirus. we are tired of it too. >> kayla is a nurse at cox medical center branson in missouri. the hospital is sharing

how concerns should we be was appropriate response with me now fox news medical contributor and john hopkinschool of public health doctor marty makary, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. how serious is the rising cases driven by the delta variant, how concerned should we be. >> too entirely different things happening in the united states, we have outbreaks in areas with low vaccination rates and low natural immunity, that is really concentrated 50% of the new cases in the united states are in pockets of five states missouri, louisiana, alabama and parts of texas for the rest of the united states there is a strong population immunity but those who are vaccinated are testing positive with asymptomatic and mild cases and people are conflating the two phenomenons and is creating a lot of confusion and hysteria if your vaccinated in natural immunity you should feel good about the immunity and continued to live a normal life. gerry: there's a lot of people hesitant to get the vaccine and we see that in those states that you mentioned they have concerns and they hear things about

that's according to the trackers at johns hopkins. the u.s.accounts for more than 600,000 of those deaths. >>> no relief in sight from those pumped up gas prices. aaa reporting crude oil will hit a seven-year high later this week. that's expected to push the national average for gas to $3.25 a gallon this month, and another $.10-$.20 higher by the end of august. that's still far below california's current average of $4.30 in the bay area, it's even higher. the white house says it's working on it and is in discussions with opec. >> we want of gas low. that's why the president also, a redline for him was no gas taxes for the american people in these infrastructure negotiations. >>> president biden wasn't quite four years old when jimmy carter and roslyn smith walked down the aisle. first couple celebrating their 75th anniversary today. how about this fact -- about six weeks after the carter's tied the knot, bill clinton was born. >> what a great story, amazing. >> congratulations to them. >>> some major up raids now underway at anderson dam in m

and in a relatively short period of months, the dark winter exercise done by johns hopkins universitym going to be wrong by a bit, but concluded that something in the neighborhood of 800,000 americans would be dead. someone here knows that exact number. is that -- where's keith? no keith. that's close enough. and that something -- a multiple of that would be infected with smallpox. and imagine, in our country, if that happened, think of the martial law that would be imposed, think of the inability to move from state to state. i mean, free people, that's what we are, we are people who want to get up in the morning and go where we want and say what we want and think what we want, and the purpose of terrorism is not to kill people. the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. it is to alter your behavior. and imagine this country if we had 800,000 people dead from smallpox and martial law imposed across our country, and that study exists, it's available, and it is that concern that caused george w. bush and his administration to step up and decide that you couldn't wait to be attacked again

is reporting an increase in coronavirus infections due to the delta variant researchers at johns hopkins university are saying that the 7 day average for each state is higher than the week before. thanks so much for joining us this evening. i'm vicki liviakis and i'm grant lotus here in california. our most recent seven-day average for positive tests. >> is up to 4.1% and that number comes from the state covid was released on friday. but rely just a week before that july 8th year, 2.6 was the positive test rate. so we're going in the wrong direction, wrong direction. the number of people hospitalized in the u.s. for covid it is 25% higher than last week as is the number of people who are admitted to intensive care over the weekend. the former commissioner of the fda warned that most unvaccinated people. adults in america are fully vaccinated to the south bay now a city official who nearly died after contracting the virus is pleading with people to get the shot. >> and calling for the reopening of one of the largest mass vaccination sites in san jose four's. rob fladeboe has more on that