this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk, and communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. you can see the patterns of local outbreaks in the slide of community transmissions. the blue and yellow counties have low or moderate transmission. the orange and red counties have substantial to high transmission. on the left, you can see where we were a month ago and compare it to where we are now on the right. in the last week, 10% of counties have moved into high transmission risk in the red, and 7% of counties have moved into substantial risk in the orange. those counties frequently correspond to counties with low vaccination rates. when we look over time, we can put these increasing cases in perspective. in january, shown in the middle of the slide, we were averaging nearly 200,000 cases per day. the entire country was in a high level of transmission. you can see that from january t

the decision to be unvaccinated impacts someone else. unvaccinated people spread the virus. get sick and fill up our hospitals and that means if someone else has a heart attack or breaks a hip, there may not be a hospital bed for them. if you're unvaccinated, you put your doctor and nurses at risk the same front line essential workers who put their lives on the line over the past year and have gone through hell. again, with freedom comes responsibility. so please exercise responsibility judgment. get vaccinated for yourself, for the people you love, for your country. i'm being literal when i say this, as i travel the world almost every day a foreign leader calls me asking can i provide his or her country more vaccines. their people are desperate for vaccines. we're doing everything to answer those calls, we're sending millions of vaccines to people around the world. but folks, it's an american blessing that we have vaccines for each and every american. we've made it our first and top priority to have available vaccines for every eligible american and that's never going to ch

this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have lower vaccination coverage, because unvaccinated people are at risk. communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. the blue and yellow counties have low or moderate transmission. orange or red counties have agile -- substantial to high transmission. on the left you can see where we wore a month ago. barrett to where we are now. -- compare it to where we are now. 10% of counties have moved into the red. 7% have moved into the orange. those counties must regally correspond to counties with low vaccination rates. when we look over time, we can put these increasing cases in perspective. in january, shown in the middle of the slide, we were averaging nearly 200,000 cases per day. the entire country was in a high level of transmission. from january to june, from left to right on the side, we made remarkable progress. the percent of counties with high transmission decreased, as shown by the red. ue and yello

that is true for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. why? even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from covid-19 you could have the delta variant in your system. and spread it to someone who is not vaccinated. stop the rapid spread of the virus as they work to get more people vaccinated that came from the masked guidance being laid down by the cdc. it certainly well and i have this is one of the areas in washington. and my decision, my direction all federal personnel and visitors to federal buildings will have to do the same thing. as i said from the beginning, a mask is not a political statement. it is about protecting your self. and protecting others. masking is one defense against the spread of covid-19. but make no mistake, vaccines are the best defense events you getting severely ill from covid-19. the very best defense. and do you want to know how we put this virus behind us? i will tell you how, we need to get more people vaccinated. look, it is important to understand what vaccines are due in what they do

and tonight, alabama's republican governor saying it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks for this spike. the highly transmissible delta variant pushing some hospitals to the limit. in kansas city, hospitals running out of beds. st. louis county reissuing its mask mandate. florida, missouri, and texas accounting for 40% of all new ca cases. and tonight that new model predicting this latest surge, that we won't see the worst of it until well into fall. tonight, dr. jha answering your questions about the millions heading back to school. under 12 not eligible for a vaccine. should they be wearing masks? how do you keep them safe? for vaccinated americans, the breakthrough cases. we ask the doctor when and where you should put a mask back on, even if you're vaccinated. the summer olympics under way in tokyo tonight with that city under a state of emergency because of the virus. the celebrations and the protests. demonstrators concerned about holding the games during a pandemic, clashing with police. what the u.s. women's soccer team and gymnastics team did today. images from the c

the unvaccinated or the vaccinated. there will be some level of civil disobedience either way, but allowing the unvaccinated to control virus policy, that's unjust and unhealthy. it is time for government to lead. which leads me to this week's survey question on my website. i want to know what you think. should president biden mandate all federal employees get vaccinated? joining me now to discuss this is kathleen sebelius, former health and human services committee. and director of the world health organization collaborating center on national and global health law, he wrote a great piece for my website this week. and he's the author of the book global health security, a blueprint for the tuch. professor, you have said that the law and judiciary have always supported immunization until now. that's whanged? >> what's changed is i have never seen in my own 30 yoorz of experience in public health the kind of politicization. just the basic public health and science tools, vaccines, masks, all of the kind of signals that th

almost all among the unvaccinated. and with the daily pace of vaccinations at the lowest point since january, doctors and government officials are begging the unvaccinated to protect themselves. >> it seems like we're fighting a losing battle here. >> reporter: as experts warn the more the virus circulates among the unvaccinated, the greater the chance of breakthrough infections among those who are fully vaccinated. still, doctors stress -- >> there are some breakthrough infections. i'm seeing them, but it's mild illness then. so that's a huge difference. and that's what vaccines do. >> reporter: and with millions of children set to head back to school, a cnn analysis finds less than a third of eligible kids are on track to be fully vaccinated against covid in the next two weeks. while public schools in atlanta, washington, d.c., and chicago are mandating masks for everyone -- >> we parents should have the right to choose whether or not our kids are suffocated by these masks all day. >> reporter: debates over masking in

almost all among the unvaccinated. d with the daily pace of vaccinations at the lowest point since january, doctors and government officials are begging the unvaccinated to protect themselves. >> it just seems like we're just fighting a losing battle here. >> reporter: as experts warn the more the virus circulates among the unvaccinated the greater the chance of so-called breakthrough infections among those who are fulfill vaccinated. still, doctors stress. >> there are some breakthrough infections. i've seen them in my practice, but it's mild illness. so that's a huge difference. and that's what vaccines do. >> reporter: and with millions of children set to head back to school, a cnn analysis finds less than a third of eligible kids are on track to be fully vaccinated against covid in the next two weeks. and while public schools in atlanta, washington, d.c., and chicago are mandating masks for everyone. >> we parents should have the right to choose whether or not our kids are suffocated by these masks all day. >> you a

we have the very vulnerable unvaccinated part, and we have the really relatively protected vaccinated part. if you are vaccinated you are in a very different category than someone who is not vaccinated. >> a new poll shows 80% of unvaccinated americans say that they probably will not get the shots or definitely will not get the shots. 80%. a lot of people are getting frustrated with those vaccine holdouts because the current state of this pandemic is completely preventable. here is republican alabama governor kay ivey. take a listen. >> these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. folks are supposed to have common sense. but it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. it's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. >> the unvaccinated folks are letting us down, she says. former white house adviser andy slavitt says he thinks that president biden should get very aggressive in turning up the heat on unvaccinated people. do you agree, and do you share governor ivey's anger? >> well, i'm very frustrated. i generally don't like t

but it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks because it's the unvaccinatedesident biden echoed governor kay ivey�*s assertion that the recent rise in covid—19 cases was the fault of those who have refused to get vaccinated. what we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. here's the point. first of all, the covid—19 deaths and hospitalisations today are among the unvaccinated people. and i know, i know this has gotten a bit politicised but i hope it is starting to change. a growing number of republicans and conservative leaders have called on people to get vaccinated in recent days following a nearly three—fold increase in coronavirus cases in the last two weeks. most of them involving people who have not been vaccinated. 56% of americans, including children, have now received at least one jab, but a new poll suggests that the majority of those who are yet to be vaccinated still say they are unlikely to do so. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. a marketing agency that asked social media stars to spread disinformation to undermine public confidence in a

the unvaccinated are the problem. vaccines are still our best and only way out of this pandemic. >> the new delta variant is incredibly, incredibly contagious, much more so than the original covid-19 virus. look at this. we put it up on the screen. dr. fauci just told mpr we're dealing with a different virus. if you look at these numbers put out by the cdc in the original common cold or the early covid-19 strain, a sick person could affect maybe two people. under the delta variant, a person who has the delta variant could infect 8 or 9 people. this is a major change. >> there is no doubt that we are dealing with something that is extremely contagious. look at the initial variant. we keep talking about, oh, well, this is so much more contagious. that caused a global pandemic. so we are really dealing with something that we have take additional precautions. again, we have to come back to this message, though, that it is the unvaccinated spreading it to other people who are unvaccinated and even to the vaccinated. so, ye

the pandemic of the unvaccinated. urgent call from one republican governor in the face of rising cases and low vaccination rates. >>> and the nfl threatening big punishments for teams with unvaccinated players as they head into the new season. >>> president biden says eliminating the filibuster would throw the senate into chaos. >>> and hunter biden meeting with potential buyers at his upcoming art shows, raising ethics concerns for the white house. ♪ >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, here we are, at the end of the week. >> here we are. >> finally. >> it is july 23rd. and we are 18 months now into the pandemic. more than 600,000 americans have died so far, even with a safe and effective vaccine available. and we find ourselves entering this new deadly phase of a crisis that is now being fueled by the unvaccinated. half of the states in the country are falling behind the national average for vaccinations. alabama is at the bottom of this list, just a third of its reside

the cdc. it's that, too many people are unvaccinated. period. that's why i'm going to commit my show, going forward, tonight as well, obviously, to tracking efforts to beat the variant. this is going to be a covid-command center, of sorts. okay? and the most important stat to start with is the number of unvaccinated. they are the ones compromising the majority of you, who have made, you know, of all places and faces and politics, you have made the decision to protect yourselves and your families and others and they haven't. a third of the country, that is eligible to be vaccinated, has not been. now, that does include those 12 years old and older. president biden put the number at 90 million people, today, who could be vaccinated and are not. too many are making that choice, for bad reason. and too many in power are feeding a new farce, that staying unprotected, unvaccinated is, somehow, a perverse move of freedom. and that changing guidance proves that the government is up to no good. no. too many in this country have made choices that are no go

the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> a pandemic of the unva unvaccinated and yet, it is the fully vaccinated being told to mask up again. according to a source, the cdc's reversal on masks is based on new data, unpublished data saying vaccinated people infected with the delta coronavirus variant can have as much virus as those unvaccinated which does contradict what we've been explicitly told about the vaccinated. >> we know that in the rare event that people get infected after a vaek ccine, infection i likely to have a lower viral load, be shorter in duration and likely less risky of transmission to others. >> if you are, again, fully vaccinated your risks of getting sick and transmitting the virus are low. >> even though they are all breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely, not impossible but very, very low likelihood they will transmit it. >> okay. when the data develops and circumstances change, the guidance needs to, as well. it's an important

pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated. that is the reason it is heartening and positive to hear people like governor hutchinson and others to go out there in their own state and say, hey, let's get vaccinated because that is the solution to this. [end video clip] host: dr. fauci yesterday from the sunday shows. the highlight in the wall street journal taking a look at florida when it comes to new cases, the doctor referenced florida leading in cases, with one in five new infections in the u.s. and over 73,000 cases the past week, and epidemiologist say various factors are a relaxation of preventative measures like mask wearing and social distancing, the spread of the highly contagious delta variant and congregation of people indoors during the hot summer months. that is the case in the wall street journal. as far as your state, if you wish to tell us why you are vaccinated or not vaccinated, let's start with robert in virginia, vaccinated. go ahead. caller: good morning. i am vaccinated with pfizer, and my wife is vaccinate

. 99.5% of the deaths in this country are in unvaccinated people. y in the world you would choose -- choose death is beyond me. poppy? >> i mean, when you look at a state like alabama which has the lowest vaccination rate, elizabeth, our numbers show that their covid case rate is double what it was just a week ago. and by the way, you are putting young people in this country at risk because if they can't get vaccinated before 12 yet, they don't have other protection than you. >> exactly. and you're failing them. you're failing your children. you're failing your friends' children. you're also failing people who have immune problems. people who have immune issues who have gotten vaccinated, there is an excellent chance that vaccine didn't work, and they're relying on you to protect them. that's the meaning of 4herd immunity. when the herd turns its back on vulnerable people, on little children, on organ transplant recipients, on people who need to take drugs to suppress their immune systems, when the herd turns their back, that's unvaccinated people ag

now it's well, we know who they are, the unvaccinated. communities. what do the numbers tell us? >> it's not true. look, the unvaccinated folks at this point, it's a wide swath, away of folks. but at this point at least among adults the largest group that's unvaccinated, look at this, 37% of the unvaccinated group at this point are white republicans. hispanics are second, 18%. blacks are at 14%. that's within the margin of error when you are looking at the polling data. but the fact of the matter is if you wanted to get the largest slice of the unvaccinated pie, at this particular point it's white republicans. and you see this massive political divide among white americans at this point whereby 37% of the unvaccinated adult population is white republican versus just 10% who are white democrats. >> so, look. that screams to the politics of this situation. that's why we are pushing on the elected on the right side of the aisle to change your messaging. i have never said this before. but i will say it now. follow mitch mcconnell. okay? at le

it's the unvaccinated who are the threat. it's the unvaccinated who will make us close our schools, lose our jobs again, shut down the economy. make my friends with immune diseases sick. we keep talking again and again in this country about the rights of the unvaccinated. unvaccinated have rights, but they're limited when they start hurting, harming others. and i think we've got it all backwards. we basically need to recalibrate. i think it's time to move away from this mask debate and get serious about mandatory vaccination. it's the right thing to do. it works. if you look at the numberings, everybody who is dead from covid these days not vaccinated. and i'm tired of sort of in indulging if you will, my body, my choice. morally liberty ends when you, if you will, swinging your arm threaten to punch me. that happens, i have to restrict what you can do. and that's what covid is. >> dr. wen, what do you think about that? i mean, obviously, there are a whole host of some liberties issues regarding it. you were a baltimore healt

the unvaccinated to the va vacc vaccinated. the vaccinated, the majority of americans, democrats, independents, red, white and blue states. every face, every place. the majority of us have done this. who is speaking for them? what about their freedoms? >> there's only one group of people who is out there saying this is -- you don't have to do it. and that is -- that's conservatives or trump supporters. >> trumpers. >> that's it. you talk about, well, minorities aren't -- you don't have minority leaders coming out, on a whole, saying, do that. you don't have people, you know, from latino leaders saying, oh, you shouldn't. you don't have it. you have one group and that is the trumpers saying that. >> saying it's the illegal entrants. and now, the minority communities that are the unvaccinated. put up the numbers. it's just not true. >> not true. i have to go with our breaking news. love you, see you soon. >> i love you d. lem. >> i love you, as well. >>> this is "don lemon tonight." this is our breaking news. okay? cnn has confir

growing concern that the unvaccinated are fuelling resurgence of coronavirus pandemic fears are rattling the stock market. dr. fauci joins me live. >>> deal on brink, the infrastructure deal could collapse. and president biden is speaking this hour. blaming china, the u.s. and allies accusing beijing of hacking microsoft. what is the biden administration going to do about it now? thank you so much for being here. we have breaking news on multiple fronts on the pandemic and that where we must begin. by every measure, coronavirus is going the wrong direction in america. the number of new daily cases is 30,000, triple the number we were seeing one month ago. this is more like april and june of 2020. cases are rising in all 50 states, up sharply in 32 states now and the unvaccinated are fuelling this resurgence, the surgeon general said 99.5% of coronavirus deaths in the united states right now are among the unvaccinated. 97% of covid hospitalizations in america are people who are unvaccinated. these numbers are driving a major sell-off on wall street at this moment. all three u.s. stock ind

we are seeing it in the data, unvaccinated americans hospitalization cowrote deaths. each of the 19thh death is tragic those happening are even more tragic because they are preventable. every american involved, no matter where they live as vaccines readily available. the vaccines work. it's safe, it's free and readily available and never been more important. as we manage the virus, the whole of government efforts continue to work to get more people vaccinated, address areas where we see outbreaks among the unvaccinated and prepare for every scenario. first and foremost we continue to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of new people each day. unvaccinated americans meeting where they are my answering questions, helping them make up their mind and making it even easier and more convenient to get a shot as soon as they are ready to do so. we are doing this by trusting and empowering messengers, trusted messengers to have the conversations we know work whether it vaccinated people in communities across the country talking directly to theirmu neighbors, sharing their own vacci

it's the pandemic of the unvaccinated. there are about 90 million americans who are eligible to get the shot that haven't gotten it yet. as i just mentioned nearly all of the cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to covid-19 today are from unvaccinated people. last month studied showed over 90% of covid-19 deaths had been among the unvaccinated. 99%. this is an american tragedy. people are dying and will die who don't have to die. if you're out there unvaccinated you don't have to die. read the news. you'll see stories about unvaccinated patients in hospitals as they're lying in bed dying from covid-19, they're asking, doc, can i get the vaccine? the doctors have to say, sorry, it's too late. right now too many people are dying or watching someone they love dying and saying if i'd just got vaccinated. if i just -- it's heartbreaking. it is complicated even more because it's preventable. america is divided between the majority of eligible people who are vaccinated and those who are not. i understand many of you in the major

it's the pandemic of the unvaccinated. there's about 90 million americans that are eligible to get the shot that haven't gotten it yet. as i just mentioned, nearly all of the cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to covid-19 today are from unvaccinated people. last month the studied showed ohio 99% of covid-19 deaths have been among the unvaccinated. 99%. this is an american tragedy. people are dying and will die that don't have to die. if you're out there unvaccinated, you don't have to die. read the news. you'll see stories about unvaccinated patients in hospitals. add they're lying in bed die from covid-19,doc, can i get the vaccine? the doctors have to say sorry, it's too late. right now too many people are dying watching someone they love dying and saying if i just got vaccinated. if i just. it's heart breaking. it's complicated even more because it's preventible. america is divided between the majority of eligible people that are vaccinated and those that not. many of you in the majority are frustrated with those tha

, with over half of the country still unvaccinated. d right now we just got new data from the cdc that shows today was one of the lowest vaccination points since january. when of course that vaccination campaign just got kicked off. what we are hearing not just here at the white house but from leaders nationwide is they are growing very concerned about what's to come. a new sense of urgency in the white house tonight as the u.s. enters a troubling phase of the pandemic with officials nationwide voicing concern. >> we understand the frustration of leaders out there and public voices who are trying to say the right thing, save people in their communities. >> reporter: more than half the nation remains unvaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to spread like wildfire. >> we're the first to say, and we have long said, that that's not enough. we need to ensure more people and more communities are vaccinated. >> reporter: president biden and his top aides are worried the gains they've made are being erased, while issuing blun

100% of the new hospitalizations are with unvaccinated folks and the deaths certainly ocho consicon ccurring with unvaccinated folks. these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflected pain. it is time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks, it's the unvaccinated folks letting us down. >> governor kay ivy. let's remember, a republican. red state. let's remember those unvaccinated people are not just the people who are vaccine hesitant or resistant who believe the misinformation. let's remember that children under 12 cannot get vaccinated yet. and it's up to the rest of us to protect them. and with all of this going on with that delta variant changing everything, the gop is split right down the middle. on one side you have governors like kay ivy, lawmakers like mitch mcconnell urging people to get vaccinated. on the other side, you have people like the -- i hate talking about her but she's spreading misinformation, the qanon congresswoman in the face of rising covid cases across the country still spreading lies claiming that democrats want panic so

this is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated. it is now a pandemic of choice. choice not to get vaccinated. and it's a choice that's having a profound impact, a bad one on the rest of us. the facts bear it out. >> the facts only 49% of the country is vaccinated and that is still a far cry from the 70 to 85% threshold that health officials say is needed to reach herd immunity. >> the world health organization says the u.s. recorded the highest number of cases in the world over the past seven days in a country where the vaccine is everywhere. if you choose to get it. >> health agencies and states all report that nearly a a a of the current hospitalizations and deaths as a result of covid are from the unvaccinated. again, nearly all. more than 97% across the nation. and there's very rarely anything 97% right, but vaccine efficacy is getting pretty close here. >> but you have to take it for it to work. now with the ferociously contagious delta variant, cases up in nearly every state, 36 seeing increases of more than 50% in the past week, more than 70% of the u.s. po

the problem are the unvaccinated, who constitute, as dr. murthy said, the vast majority of the transmission. and so, i think the cdc should be really clear that, the reason why locales and businesses want to be implementing indoor-mask mandates. it's not that, somehow, something isn't right with the vaccinated. it's that if we don't have proof of vaccination, there is no way to tell who is vaccinated and who's not. so in a sense, the vaccinated are maybe some people are kind of mad saying why do i need to put a mask on, now? well, the reason is we don't have the honor code that's working. and we are putting on masks, now, because we can't trust the unvaccinated to be masking. >> art, i mean, just through kind of an ethical lens. this idea that the burden lies, again, on the vaccinated population. who have made a responsible choice. what do you say to those who feel like they are being punished for the actions of the unvaccinated or people who are not fulfilling their duty as citizens? >> well, i think it's time to get our moral house in orde

the unvaccinated are letting us down. that's a quote from the republican governor of alabama, the least vaccinated state in the country. governor ivey also said it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated for the covid comeback around the u.s. the country is now averaging 43,000 new covid cases a day. that's a 65% increase from just last week. just one month ago, for a point of comparison, the daily average of new cases was under 12,000. about a third of the u.s. population lives in a community considered to have high covid transmission. one of our medical experts says the delta variant is like nothing he's ever seen before. we'll speak to him in a minute. it is so contagious that it's impacting some people who are fully vaccinated, and it's pushing frontline healthcare workers to the brink. cnn's athena jones has been tracking the latest for us across the country. athena, what's happening on the ground? >> reporter: hi, alisyn. it wasn't supposed to be this way. the vaccines approved months ago were supposed to help preve

the unvaccinated are letting us down. vaccinated state in the country. governor ivey also said it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated for the covid comeback around the u.s. the country is now averaging 43,000 new covid cases a day. that's a 65% increase from just last week. just one month ago, for a point of comparison, the daily average of new cases was under 12,000. about a third of the u.s. population lives

the actions of the unvaccinate also affect the vaccinated, too. if you are surrounded by all of these people who there infected, chances are higher that you might get infected yourself even if you are vaccinated. >> yes, of course. and back to school is starting soon. so many parents have questions for their kids. another question from their viewer is, what would you do if your kids have preexisting conditions, not eligible for vaccines, and their school system is leaving masking to parent preference? would you send them back to school and take the risk or choose an online option like k-12 until they are vaccinated? >> this is really tough. i mean certainly if schools have not yet made that decision, i really hope that the school will say that masks are required in indoor settings. if they've already said that it is not required, i would do two things. one is look at what is going on in your community. if it is a community with very high vaccination rates and very low infection rates, i would probably take the chance and send my child to school. i

and the unvaccinated paying the highest price.o not get the covid-19 vaccine is something she says she now regrets. >> you know, just being in the hospital, you know, having to go through a lot of things. the treatment and everything. and not knowing if i was going to end up on a ventilator. you know, it's just scary. >> reporter: she survived her battle with eph couldid, fighting for life at memorial hospital miramar in florida. >> i'm a believer now that we need to make sure that everyone is vaccinated. >> reporter: cobb's home state of florida has one of the highest rates of new covid cases in the country. arkansas and louisiana also among the hardest-hit states. florida alone averaging more than 10,000 new cases per day, accounting for one in five new cases in the u.s. dr. michelle aquino, a physician in florida, says she's been seeing an uptick in covid patients coming through her doors. >> the unvaccinated percentage of our patients, right now in our hospitals of all our covid patients 99.9% are unvaccinated. when you see so

he made a desperate plea, really the most desperate plea he made to unvaccinated americans to get their shots. the delta variant is spreading so quickly that the white house is discussing whether tougher masking guidance is needed for the vaccinated. >> the president also made a plea for a bipartisan investigation of the january 6th capitol riot. and he pushed for his economic and legislative agenda as well. but his primary focus is ramping up the vaccination rate and crushing covid for good. >> it's real simple. we have a pandemic for those who haven't gotten the vaccination. it's that basic, that simple. if you're vaccinated, you're not going to be hospitalized, you're not going to be in the i.c.u. unit and you're not going to die. there's legitimate questions people can ask that they worry about getting vaccinated. but the questions should be asked, answered, and people should get vaccinated. >> when will children under 12 be able to get vaccinated? >> soon, i believe. they are doing, they are doing examinations now, the testing now, and making the decision now. the cdc is going to s

it is the delta variant spread amongst the unvaccinated. here in los angeles, highest case rates they have seen in months, and the vast majority of those people catching the virus are unvaccinated. what are they doing about it? like elsewhere in the country, they are encouraging more people to get the vaccine and also here in los angeles the mask mandate is back. indoors, even if you are vaccinated, you are supposed to wear a mask now. some law enforcement are saying they won't enforce that, but that is the message from health offi officials. they use this analogy to explain why. they say think of this pandemic as a weather event. heavy rain. so your umbrella is your vaccine. that keeps you pretty safe. until the winds pick up and the rain gets even heavier. that's the delta variant. then you are going to need a raincoat as well, and that is your mask. they want to stifle this delta variant as quickly as they possibly can here and across the country. jim? >> all right. let's stamp it out together. jim watt, thank you so much. let's bring in

the unvaccinated hardest hit. some doctors sounding the alarm. >> if you don't choose the vaccine, you're choosing death. >> children paying a terrifying price. >> she's on a dialysis machine right now. her kidneys have failed. it's all been very overwhelming. >> with mask mandates largely gone and kids in some states gearing up to go back to school. >> i'm really nervous about going back to in-person instruction. >> and this father with a stark warning. >> please, if you are not vaccinated, do not go around children. >> and later, answering your questions. breaking down the highly contagious delta variant. if you've been vaccinated, could you still be at risk? >> announcer: "nightline" will be right back. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette (vo) for over 50 years purina cat chow has been helping cats feel at home. with trusted

in the meantime, this is fast becoming a crisis of the unvaccinated. here's what the republican governor of alabama had to say. >> folks supposed to have common sense but it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. yamiche: what can leaders in washington do to get more americans vaccinated and will the delta variant reverse the progress made against the pandemic? joining us, top reporters, yasmeen abutaleb, healt reporter for "the washington post." and joining us in studio, eva mckend, with the spectrum news. and carol leonnig of "the waington post" and philip rucker of "the washington post." carol and phil are authors of the best selling book "i alone can fix it, donald trump's catastrophic final year." i'm so excited to dig into all of the things that happened this this week. yasmeen, some data suggests the u.s. is seeing as many as 1,000 new covid cases every hour. but today i talked to a white house source who underscored to me tha people who are unvaccinated should be the most concerned about the numbers. why are unvac

the unvaccinated putting this whole country at risk. how can the white house convince these people to get vaccinated with so many on the right still pushing dangerous misinformation? >> i think the most important thing they can do right now is take the unvaccinated people who have come out of the hospital with these near-death experiences, who have had a conversion, a death bed conversion. let them speak to the unvaccinated about why it's important that we all get vaccinated, you know, to protect not just ourselves but or friends and in this case our unvaccinated friends and family. and keep pounding the point home that all these people are in the hospital. nearly 100% of them are unvaccinated. this is just insane. take these powerful voices of people who have just come out of the hospital, near death. let them speak to the unvaccinated. if the unvaccinated don't listen to them, i don't know who they'll listen to. >> we just had one at the top of the 10:00 hour, a couple. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. >>> i want to talk more abo

the biggest chunk of the unvaccinated is white republicans. is, are they unvaccinated because of this tripe? and imagine having that on your head, in your heart. any way you look at it, it's got to stop. this isn't like convincing people that trump is a victim, okay? deep state, trust only us, the rest of the bs playbook. they are victimizing people for profit. and they only have it half right. this is the land of the free. freedom is the signature trait. but we are free, why? because this is the home of the brave. and there is no valor in being unvaccinated and exposing loved ones, especially kids, and holding the majority of this country hostage. that is not going to work out well. i know many of you who are spinning this, you're trying to become the next trump. but you are failing to learn the biggest lesson of his presidency. playing people about a pandemic is a losing proposition. do better. now, in terms of dealing with the latest suck, it's the new mask, we've got to wear it. the messaging from the cdc about being vaccinated is being me