CDC Director: “Virus has no incentive to let up”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged unvaccinated Americans to take the Delta variant seriously and said “this virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the next vulnerable person to infect.” President Biden didn’t rule out a change in mask guidance as he stressed the pandemic is among the unvaccinated. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent tells Anderson Cooper that if the mask issue “wasn’t so politicized,” I think the answer would be that if you’re vaccinated and inside around unvaccinated people, you should “probably put a mask on.” Plus, NFL Network Host Rich Eisen joins AC360 to discuss his reaction when he found out he tested positive for Covid-19, despite being vaccinated. Airdate: July 22, 2021 Guests: Dr. Leana Wen Rich Eisen 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, the Biden administration tonight striking an urgent new tone on
0:04.4	COVID. Now we're pedally calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated and that is
0:08.5	certainly true. Now most of the hospitalizations and deaths of people from
0:12.2	COVID are people who've chosen not to be vaccinated and that choice not to get
0:16.1	vaccinated does put millions of other Americans at risk. Those who can't get the
0:21.2	vaccine because they are immunocompromised because they're their children and
0:25.6	the vaccine hasn't been approved for kids under the age of 12 yet. So while this
0:29.4	is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, there are millions of children who can get sick
0:33.6	because adults won't do something to protect them. The Delta variant highly
0:38.1	infectious, much easier to catch if you're unvaccinated is now the dominant
0:42.2	strain in the country. Cases have doubled, tripled and now nearly quadrupled
0:45.8	over the last four weeks. Listen to HHS Secretary Javier Basera in Las Vegas
0:50.6	with the state's positivity rate now approaching 15% and only 39% of the
0:55.8	county encompassing Las Vegas fully vaccinated. This is not fiction. This is not
1:02.2	some kind of disinformation campaign. This is just a fact. If you are dying today in
1:07.8	America from COVID, it's because essentially you're unvaccinated. Why would you
1:13.5	want to die? And as we've been seeing all week, I see use in Nevada and Arkansas
1:18.5	and Louisiana and Florida are once again getting very busy. That's not just a
1:22.2	problem for the unvaccinated though, ER doctors, hospital staffers are once
1:26.6	again forced to deal with the stress and strain of treating people who wouldn't
1:30.2	be in the ICU if they'd gotten a vaccine. Already this week we've seen the
1:34.8	stock market dip on fears the Delta variant will put a chill into what was
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