On a personal note, it's painful for me to know that nearly every death we are seeing now from COVID-19 could have been prevented.

I say that as someone who has lost 10 family members to COVID-19 and who wishes each and every day that they had had the opportunity to get vaccinated.

With coronavirus cases on the rise, the U.S. Surgeon General issues a warning about the spread

of misinformation online.

The question is, what are social media companies doing to crack down?

And is it enough?

Plus, pushing ahead with infrastructure, majority leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will begin

procedural votes on a bipartisan bill next week. The question is, how realistic is that deadline?

And an 18-year-old is about to be the youngest person ever to go to space. Jeff Bezos has picked

a student from the Netherlands to join his company's first space flight after the winning bidder pulled out due to a scheduling

conflict. The question is, will that person try to get a $28 million refund? It's way too early, the show that is really wondering how on Earth,

no pun intended, you double book something for the day that you're supposed to go to space.

I mean, what?

I am Casey Hunt on this Friday, July 16th.

We made it.

We'll start with the news.

Fears are growing over a new COVID wave as cases climb and vaccination rates plateau.

Now the nation's largest county, Los Angeles, is turning back the pandemic clock,

issuing a new indoor mask mandate.

NBC News correspondent Miguel Almagare has the

latest. Los Angeles, the nation's largest county, taking a step back, requiring masks indoors,

even for the vaccinated effective Sunday. Impacting 10 million people here and breaking with

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