We've historically had vaccination requirements in schools, but those have always come at the state level, never at the national level.

And so this is an unprecedented assumption of federal mandate authority that really disrupts and divides the country.

A growing number of Republican governors come out against President Biden's sweeping new vaccine

mandates, but the president is hitting back at critics, threatening legal challenges and saying,

bring it on. The question is, how will this fight play out? Plus, Senators Joe Manchin and Bernie

Sanders at odds over Democrats' $3.5 trillion

budget resolution. The question is, what does the inviting mean for the president's economic

agenda? And California's gubernatorial recall election is in its final stretch. With voters heading

to the polls tomorrow, the question is, can Governor Gavin Newsom

hang on to his job? It's way too early for this.

Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that is California Dreaming. I'm Jonathan

Lemire on this Monday, September 13th. We'll start with the news. Three major new studies by the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight the power of the COVID-19 vaccine amid the spread

of the highly contagious Delta variant. The first report found people who are not fully vaccinated

are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared to those who are. That study looked

at more than 600,000 COVID cases from April through mid-July in 13 states. Meanwhile, according

to the Washington Post, a second study showed that Moderna's vaccine was more

effective in preventing hospitalizations compared to vaccines from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson.

That assessment was based on the largest U.S. study to date of the real-world effectiveness

of all three vaccines, involving about 32,000 patients.

And a third study looked at the effectiveness of the two MRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna. That report found those vaccines were

87% effective in preventing hospitalizations and remained highly effective even during Delta's

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