Study: Five clusters with low vaccination rates now potential breeding grounds for more deadly variants; Biden: U.S. set to complete war in Afghanistan by August 31; Surfside disaster turns from rescue to recovery; TX GOP resumes push for voting restrictions in special session

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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24 States report cases up 10% or more in one week as Delta variant spreads; Missouri hospital system: ventilator supply low at one facility, patients transferred to other locations; Map of states with lower vaccination rates closely aligns with 2020 election map; Biden: Relocation flights for Afghans who helped U.S. forces will begin this month; Biden: We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build; Biden says U.S. achieved its objectives in Afghanistan, says U.S. support for Afghan people "will endure"; Biden: Taliban takeover of Afghanistan "is not inevitable"; Officials: U.S. withdrawal is more than 90% complete; 60 people confirmed dead in Surfside, 80 unaccounted for; All victims unaccounted for now presumed dead in Surfside; Biden meets with civil rights leaders over election reform; Psaki: Biden intends to give major voting rights speech; Texas GOP pushes to empower partisan poll watchers, add new ID requirements and ban drive-through, 24-hour voting; Federal investigation into native American children's remains found at boarding schools; TSA found more than 70 guns at checkpoint over July 4 weekend

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0:00.9	Scenes from the peak of the pandemic all over again.
0:04.4	The lead starts right now.
0:06.7	The danger of unvaccinated clusters in the United States,
0:10.0	one hospital now running out of ventilators,
0:12.9	and it could be a breeding ground for new variants.
0:16.6	Track and field, swimming and gymnastics only on TV,
0:20.4	how COVID is forcing something never seen before at the Olympics.
0:25.6	Plus, it's up to them.
0:27.3	President Biden's stern message to Afghanistan
0:29.9	is he defends increasing criticism about the speed of America's exit.
0:38.3	Welcome to the lead. We start with our health lead today and an urgent warning
0:42.5	that can't be repeated enough even at this stage of the pandemic.
0:48.0	Despite our progress, we're still losing people to this virus.
0:52.4	Virtually all COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States
0:57.1	are now occurring among unvaccinated individuals.
1:01.7	Knowing that, the Biden administration is trying to beef up a grassroots approach
1:06.0	towards getting more people vaccinated.
1:08.2	And here's where that effort may be needed most.
1:10.8	Take a look at this map on your screen.
1:12.7	Five clusters, described by researchers as breeding grounds for deadly COVID variants,
1:18.5	mostly across the south, each pocket with low vaccination rates.
1:23.3	CNN's Athena Jones starts us off this hour with the new COVID danger zones.
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