Biden: “The pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated”

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After months of encouraging employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, companies like Google, Facebook and Netflix are starting to take a harder line and roll out mandates. President Joe Biden said “we still have a lot of people not vaccinated” and “the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells Anderson Cooper the reason cases are going up is because unvaccinated people are spreading the virus to other unvaccinated people. Plus, Simone Biles dropped out of the women’s gymnastics individual all-around competition to focus on her well-being. Apolo Ohno won eight Olympic medals in short track speed skating. He joins AC360 to discuss the pressure that comes with being an Olympic athlete and says we should support athletes when they “need it most.” Airdate: July 28, 2021 Guests: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Apolo Ohno To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. There's no shortage of important COVID news tonight. There's also more than a hint of
0:05.0	whiplash from all of it. People are understandably frustrated at the rise of the Delta variant, which
0:09.6	is now pushed the seven-day running average of new cases above the 60,000 per day mark, and it could
0:15.5	get worse. Just the other night in this program, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former CDC Director,
0:20.0	warned that cases could hit 200,000 a day in the next several weeks if we follow a similar
0:25.4	trajectory as the United Kingdom. The spike has prompted local state and now the federal government
0:30.3	to begin reimposing mask mandates and more big companies to mandate vaccinations for their workers.
0:36.1	Google, Netflix, Netflix and Facebook becoming the latest today. As for the public sector,
0:41.6	President Biden is now telling federal agencies to require masking inside buildings in areas with
0:47.3	what they are calling substantial or high COVID-19 transmission, including Washington, D.C. The Pentagon,
0:53.5	now telling all military and civilian personnel and high risk areas to mask up, regardless of vaccination
0:59.5	status. New York's governor ordering vaccinations or regular testing for state employees.
1:05.1	At the same time, even as some localities in their states are amping up restrictions,
1:10.0	many red state governors are resisting any calls to remask more whiplash, more anger from parents
1:16.0	of school boards way mask mandates for the return to classes. Here's how that played out yesterday
1:20.7	in Broward County, Florida. Protesters outside of school board meeting, burning masks.
1:24.8	It is time to pass the off this symbol of tyranny, this symbol of child abuse.
1:34.4	We will not stand for it anymore.
1:37.7	Symbol of tyranny and child abuse. In Washington, meantime, more political posturing on the subject.
1:42.9	Today, according to CNN's Denial Adidas, Democratic Congressman Jared Huffman and Republican
1:47.3	Byron Donald has gotten to a shouting match just off the House floor. Congressman Huffman,
1:51.4	who was wearing a mask, calling Congressman Donald's, who wasn't selfish. Congressman Donald's
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