Surgeon General Talks About Slowing Vaccinations, Surging Variant

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

President Joe Biden meets with covid-19 response team ahead of major speech on the pandemic. Biden's covid-19 speech will include announcements on mandates, testing and a six-pronged strategy to fight the delta variant.

The United States surgeon general speaks about the rising covid cases among children. The United States surgeon general talks about slowing vaccinations and a surging variant and how vaccinated people are overestimating their risk. According to the CDC, the pace of covid-19 vaccinations is ticking down again. According to a study, severe breakthrough cases tend to be in older and sicker people. Kentucky sees a record number of new covid cases in one week. Covid hospitalizations in the United States are holdings at around 100,000.

13 Miami-Dade school staffers die of covid over the past few weeks. The United States is averaging nearly 1,5000 covid-19 deaths a day. A Florida judge allows for mask mandates to continue in schools, ruling against an appeal by GOP Gov. Desantis.

New video of the suspect who plants the pipe bombs ahead of the Jan 6 riot. A Capitol police memo warns of growing online talk of violence surrounding the September 18 rally supporting insurrectionists.

More than 12 million are under a flood watch in the storm-battered Northeast.

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