New York City imposes a vaccine verification requirement for bars, restaurants, and gyms

as Delta reached over 100,000 cases a day nationwide.

The WHO calls for a moratorium on boosters until at least 10% of citizens in every country

can be vaccinated.

The worker shortage has hit hospitals.

In Arkansas, hospitals are offering a $25,000 signing bonus for new nurses.

This is America Disected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid.

If you're like me, the last few weeks of COVID-19 news have been a bit of a roller coaster.

First, there was this.

The CDC updating mask guidance, they are now recommending everyone, even vaccinated people

where masks indoors in areas where COVID is spreading rapidly.

And then this.

The Delta variant surging across the US appears to spread as easily as the chickenpox

and may be more transmissible than Ebola and smallpox.

All of this, according to an internal CDC document, our spring of hope was supposed to

lead to a summer of freedom.

But today, with fall fast approaching, Americans are leery about what changing mask guidelines

in a new raging variant mean for our future.

But this new wave, it hits a little different.

And just in the last week, new COVID infections up 47%.

We have a pandemic for those who haven't gotten a vaccination.

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