Delta variant increasing threat to unvaccinated Americans; White House puts new urgency on the unvaccinated as cases surge; Trump returns to Arizona to peddle election fraud claims;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Unvaccinated Americans behind rise in COVID-19 cases; Daily pace of vaccinations hits lowest point since January; Alabama’s GOP Gov: It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated; U.S. averaging more new cases now than spring 2020 surge; CNN analysts: most U.S. teens not vaccinated as back to school looms; CDC: Alabama is the least vaccinated state in the U.S. with just 34% fully vaccinated; NFL warns teams may have to forfeit games if outbreaks among unvaccinated players & staff cause cancelations; Biden: White House teams are looking at “all” possibilities in response to COVID surge; Psaki: COVID vaccines are not mandated for White House staff; COVID rules and protests hang over quiet opening ceremony; 110 COVID cases linked to Olympics as games begin; Wash Post: Trump PAC raises &75M but spends nothing on 2020 election audits; VP Harris making voting rights her top public focus; Fire officials: at least 83 wildfires burning in 13 states; Nation’s largest wildfire in Oregon burns more than 400K acres; Nation’s largest wildfire stirring pyro clouds & fire tornadoes; British government under fire for lifting COVID restrictions; COVID surge in U.K. is causing dome food & gas shortages; U.S. warns against travel to Britain as COVID cases surge; Retail exerts predict shortage of back-to-school supplies; Cleveland MLB team to switch name from Indians to Guardians; 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	How do you follow that act?
0:03.2	All right, Tokyo testing out the old saying better late than never.
0:07.8	The lead starts right now.
0:11.1	A governor of one of the most conservative states has its time to start blaming the unvaccinated.
0:16.9	As the current COVID surge starts to resemble the early dark days of the pandemic.
0:22.8	And let the games begin after a year of delays.
0:25.8	The torch is lit in Tokyo, but the Olympics still can't seem to outrun the pandemic.
0:32.8	Plus, explosive clouds and fire tornadoes, climate change making sci-fi non-fiction as a
0:39.9	historic wildfire impacts people from coast to coast.
0:48.4	Welcome to the lead.
0:49.4	I'm Pamela Brown and for Jake Tapper on this Friday.
0:52.3	And we start today with our health lead.
0:54.8	The alarm bells are sounding and the only way to turn them off is for more people to get
0:59.4	vaccinated.
1:00.4	It is as simple as that.
1:01.6	The average of new daily coronavirus cases in the United States is up 65% just from
1:07.6	this time last week.
1:09.3	So to put that into context, the surge we're dealing with right now, which is driven
1:13.0	by the unvaccinated, is worse than the horrible original spike from last spring.
1:19.0	But despite all of these warnings, from top health officials, doctors, politicians, local
1:23.0	leaders, and well, basically everybody, the daily pace of vaccinations, it keeps falling
1:28.8	as CNN's Athena Jones reports.
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