COVID-19 cases rising in all 50 states & DC; Biden’s Hill agenda in trouble as bipartisan talks fray; CDC: 2020 saw highest overdose deaths ever recorded; Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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L.A. county reinstates indoor mask mandate amid surge; Cases rising in all states; vaccinations slow to 300K per day; Baseball game postponed after 6 Yankees test positive; CNN looks into unvaccinated Americans and big lie believers; Census survey: 48% “probably” or “definitely” won’t get vaccine; Biden says Facebook is “killing people” with COVID misinformation; Schumer calls rushed test vote for bipartisan infrastructure deal; Biden & Dems try to push through 2 massive pieces of budget spending; CDC: 93K people died from overdoses in 2020, a 30% increase; New CNN reporting: U.S. intel warning Taliban are advancing at accelerated pace in Afghanistan; George W. Bush: Afghanistan withdrawal is a “mistake”; Fears future for Afghan women & girls under Taliban; Pulitzer-winning photojournalist killed in Afghanistan; Shrinking of Utah’s Great Salt Lake disrupts ecosystems, threatens wildlife; May become dangerous source of dust; 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	There is no state in the United States where you can hide.
0:05.8	The lead starts right now.
0:08.6	Every single state in the nation, single rise in COVID cases as the United States hits
0:13.9	a fourth wave, largely because of the tens of millions of Americans who refuse to get
0:19.5	vaccinated and one of the biggest cities in the United States is now bringing back masks.
0:25.5	Women and girls living in fear of a return to the dark oppressive rule of the Taliban
0:29.4	as the US leaves Afghanistan will, they lose their freedom, their chance at an education
0:35.0	even their lives, plus rivers exploding their banks, hundreds missing dozens dead after
0:41.3	the heaviest rainfall in a century in Europe.
0:49.3	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the health lead and the
0:53.0	pandemic of the unvaccinated, that's what the White House is calling, the alarming rise
0:58.4	of new COVID cases across the United States, that's right for the first time in months
1:03.2	every single state in the US is seeing a rise in new cases, the majority of the country
1:09.9	shockingly red as you see in that graph, deaths, hospitalizations, they're also up from
1:15.2	last week and that's because the Delta variant is surging and not nearly enough Americans
1:19.5	are vaccinated.
1:20.5	The White House says that four states, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada account for
1:26.5	more than 40% of all the cases in the past week.
1:30.1	The White House also says that one in five of all cases is in Florida.
1:35.1	The Biden administration is blaming misinformation, not just on far right TV channels, they're
1:40.4	singing, singling out social media and specifically Facebook for enabling misleading claims
1:46.0	about vaccines to spread.
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