of tenure and she is instead accepting a faculty role at howard university. her tenure was initially denied by the board of trustees. >> she won the pulitzer prize for her work on the 1619 project which examines the consequences of slavery in the united states. that project has been attacked by conservative critics and politicians and hannah-jones says she was never told why her ten yu was denied, but speaking this morning she suspects politics and race and gender played a role. >> i went through the tenure process and received unanimous approval to be granted tenure. so to be denied it and to have the vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after threat of legal action, after weeks of protest, after it became a national scandal, it is not something that i want anymore. >> hillary rosen is a member of the board of trustees at howard university and a cnn political commentatory. thanks for being with us. we know that she will now be a tenured professor at howard university. you are on the board. i am an alumnus. when i saw the alert this

but i'll still be engaging with that university. it's my alma mater. >> i know this question may seem a little late. i've been off spending time with my family, three different generations especially of black women in my family. my family is dominated by women. my mom, my sisters, and my nieces, right? of course we have younger generations because it's my great nephews. so before you go, you will now be colleagues with actress felicia rashad, who is a dean of howard's college of fine arts. now, you know she sent this letter to the school students and parents apologizing for tweeting in celebration of bill cosby's sexual conviction being overturned. she since deleted that tweet. she's apologized. what do you think about that? what do you think of the situation? >> i was really bothered and offended by the tweet that dean rashad sent. i'm a woman. i know many women who were on that campus. i know women who were sexually assaulted while they were on a college campus. so i think she has some serious work to do to regain the trust of the

the problem for some at howard university is, was rashad's apology enough? >> we need to look at the student survivor committee, and if students in the committee feel she should be removed, howard university needs to take that seriously. >> students couldn't say for sure whether rashad should keep her position. the president of revolt, an on-campus group, helping to reserve a safe space for women. >> i understand if other students feel more action needs to be taken and i would support that as well. >> jason carroll, cnn. >> thank you, jason. >>> and now an update to a story we've been following. pulitzer prize-winning journalist nikole hannah-jones turning down a tenured teaching position at the university of north carolina, instead accepting a tenured professor position at howard university in washington, d.c. she was initially denied tenure at unc until hannah-jones protested. she blames did on her groundbreaking work on the 1619 project. that was when the first slave ship arrived. hannah-jones saying in a statement, these last few weeks have been very dar

potential money for themselves after they leave the university. this is no change in the market. i don't think there's any way in which this makes a huge slippery slope that wasn't already there. >> we're seeing some reaction from plenty of athletes who have been punished when this was illegal. usc famous case a year ago, reggie bush lost his heisman trophy, got his records vacated because he and his family were accused of getting money and benefits. usc got a two-year bowl ban. now he says he never cheated the game. he wants his records and his heisman back. should the ncaa right past wrongs here? >> that becomes a complicated issue, and in certain respects, you can't change the past by changing the rules in the present. i think there are other issues involved with reggie bush and the university and the ncaa could and should reconsider that situation but that wasn't simply using right of publicity, which the issue right now is the right of publicity for an athlete's image own their person, not whether or not you gain some benefit outside of the u

but let's just also celebrate what she's going to build at howard university, a great university. i'm thankful that all those foundations are supporting you. i just wish you were with me. but, you know, there's no doubt that we are at a moment in this country where race again has come to the forefront and journalism is -- it doesn't make friends. journalism really makes people feel uncomfortable. and i understand that our job as journalists and preparing a whole new generation, a changed generation, is to really prepare them to ignite the public conversation and boy has nicole ignited that public conversation. and we'll be forever changed here, nicole, and our faculty are supportive of you greatly and i hope that we will be able to continue to really build a better public university where all students and all of our faculty feel welcomed. and we would have loved to have done it with you, but we don't want to put the burden on you either. >> dean, again, i know you wanted her there, but how did unc blow this so badly? >> on every front. and i don't totally understand it. i think ni

i want to bring in the dean of brown university. as you heard, president biden just told americans that if you are in an area with high levels of vaccination, you don't need to wear a mask. but the cdc says it depends on case rates. can you set the record straight for us? a lot of us remain confused. >> yeah, absolutely wolf. thanks for having me here. so the cdc is right. it really should be driven by local transmission or case rates in your community. the more infections you have, the higher the risk for everybody. again, mostly for the unvaccinated, but it is spilling over to the vaccinated as well. i think what the president suz probably referring to is low vaccination places are where the big outbreaks are happening. so there is a correlation there. but you have to follow the case rates, the infection numbers to make that decision. >> are you optimistic that vaccine mandates from both the president or private companies are actually going to work? >> i am. you know, the experience so far has been really terrific. we saw this wit

hbcus can't draw the resources of a place like the university of north carolina. and those students are just as wo worthy to get someone like me to instruct them in journalism as the students at the university of north carolina. i'm sad i won't be instructing those students. those students are great advocates, they protested on my behalf. i'll still be engaging with those students, just not in the classroom. >> i've been off, spending time with my family, three different generations, right, especially of black women in my family, my family is dominated by women. my mom, my sisters, and my nieces. and then we of course are the younger generation, my great nephews, but they're nephews, guys. before you go, you will now be colleagues with actress felicia rashad who is the dean of howard's college of fine arts. she sent this letter to the school students and parents apologizing for tweeting in celebration of bill cosby's sexual assault conviction being overturned. she since deleted that tweet, she's apologized. what do you think about that, what do you think of the si

so today the university of michigan was also announcing it will be the latest university to require all staff, all students to be vaccinated. and that's really a massive number of people for that university. a lot of young adults have been quite slow to get vaccinated. so do you think it should be mandated at all colleges and universities? >> i do think so. we have plenty of really great data and information that those covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective. i know the recent news of breakthrough infections and universal mask mandates for those vaccinated are getting people their jumpy. the take home message is good that the covid-19 vaccines work. the more we can use them and mandate, you know, individuals that have public facing rules that are in the universities and in these types of settings, the better. in fact, i applaud over the 88 health care organizations that are looking at and have mandated, you know, the covid-19 vaccine for the 17 million health care workers we have in the united states. that's very important. >> i have a fewer asking questions about boosters and quote, t

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our league is comprised of historically black colleges and universities. you're not going to find a cohort of presidents who care more deeply about the health and safety of their students and student athletes than our presidents. one of the hallmarks of historically black colleges and universities is the personal and intimate relationships that the presidents have with their students. so the notion that any one of our presidents would do anything that would undermine the health and safety of students is contrary to the reason why our schools even exist. >> yeah, and, greg, we certainly hope that that is heard loud and clear. you are a very good messenger of this, and we certainly appreciate you being with us today. >> thank you guys for having me. >>> an alabama doctor is sharing how she has made progress changing people's minds on vaccinations, issuing -- issuing a warning to those who are still hesitant to get their dose before it's too late. dr. brittany koby a said she is admitting people with serious infections. all but one of her covid patients is un

you could require this in high schools, you could require it for colleges and universities. and that would change the outlook for this fall in really big ways. i think there are a lot of people who if they're in a situation where their workplace requires vaccination or school requires vaccination, they'll go ahead and get vaccinated. we've seen this with childhood immunization as well when mandates are there, more and more people say, hey, it's not worth fighting this, i'm just going to go ahead and do it. >> and lots of schools have mandates for vaccinations, just not the covid vaccination. i want to talk about breakthrough infections because with this continued problem of so many tens of millions of americans still not vaccinated we see this more breakthrough infections, that's a reference to people who are fully vaccinated getting covid. to be clear, the vaccine's credited with keeping most of these people out of the hospital. but it still is alarming. today we found out a white house official as well as an aide to speaker pelosi were both fully vaccinated. both tested po

university. both had big flying schools. and competitions and meets together and so on. so we grew up together in aviation. >> she's becoming a bit of a hero here in her 80s. i think she's getting her due. and people are paying attention to what you achieved as well. i wonder what it's like -- what is it like having that renewed attention and watching heron joy some notoriety now? >> i am so pleased for her because she had this in her mind all these years. she was going to go in space. and i guess i'm more of a realist. i just went along in aviation and was very happy in aviation. she was in aviation, too. she was doing a lot of flying. but she kept talking about space. she wanted to go in space. and we grew up in airplanes together at oklahoma. i was at oklahoma university, she was at oklahoma state university. so we had lots of combined competitions and so on. so we grew up together in aviation, and i've known all these years that she had in her mind that she was going to go in space. and she d

we need to have a universal election code. >> the last part there, it sounds great. the speaker of the house, we want the same for everybody. the problem is texas is a giant state 2rks 50 counties, some are rural. you can have one precinct or maybe two. then harris county, houston, which is changing've during this conversation where people work 24 hours a day where they needed expanded voting. when republicans say they're making it the same for everybody, what that means is we're trying to tilt it to their advantage. >> in texas where you have such disparities in size and on lags, you're taking away e methods of voting. they'll say, yes, they support the idea of having clear guidelines so you know. i think that was one issue during the pandemic. it got so confusing for people to know how to vote. again, democrats would argue that republicans should be honest about what their goals are here, which is to make it more difficult for certain people in certain places to cast a ballot. >> if you're sitting in washington you're watching this or maybe one of the states, 14, w

indiana university is one of more than 100 u.s. colleges and universities requiring students to get vaccinated. >>> the state department out with a blunt new warning just as summer tourism heats up, do not travel to the uk. the reason is that cases of covid are surging once again in britain even as england is just lifting nearly all restrictions. and they raised the level to a very high risk advising if they must go, make sure they are fully vaccinated. >>> president biden hopes to see a bipartisan infrastructure deal advance in the senate this week. but republican leaders are threatening to block the vote. cnn's jasmine wright is live in washington for us. good morning, the democratic senate leader chuck schumer set a deadline, republicans push back, now this whole thing is on life support for people who maybe aren't following this minute to minute every day, please break down for us where does it stand and where is it going? >> reporter: that's right. yesterday senator schumer leaned in on that procedural vote having it on wednes

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. >> the university of california now planning to bar most unvaccinated students and faculty from in-person classes. the uc system includes ten campuses, about five medical centers with more than 280,000 students statewide. and as we've seen before, cases rise, vaccination pace also falling right now. it is now down about 75% in just the last two months. and that is why the surgeon general just yesterday at the white house revealing that he lost ten family members to the pandemic also saying that as a father he is also waiting to vaccinate his younger children. he declared the onslaught of misinformation on social media a public health hazard. >> millions of people don't have access to accurate information because on social media platforms and other tech platforms, we're seeing the rampant spread of misinformation and it is costing people their lives. tech companies will say that they have taken some steps forward and they have, but we need much more action from technology companies. this is not a problem that we can take years to solve. >> red sox game was postponed after six yankee player

kamala harris spoke on it while visiting howard university. >> this is the fight of our lifetime. this is the fight of our lifetime. we all stand on the shoulders of giants, we will always remember our history. we also understand their legacy. and that we are a part of that. >> texas is just one of many states enacting voting restrictions in some form. >>> parts of new york city are being hit by flooding ahead of tropical storm elsa. on thursday, several subway stations were impacted. the metropolitan transportation authority said it would take steps to keep customers and employees safe. the heavy rains and high winds created havoc on the roads causing the mta to implement a ban on empty tractor trailers on tunnels. and some 20 million americans along the east coast are under tropical storm warnings at this hour. elsa first hit florida on wednesday, one person was killed in jacksonville. tornadoes were reported across the state as well as in parts of southern georgia. now the powerful storm is making its way into the northeast and joining me now to talk about that is karen mcginnm

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i am a howard university alumnus. there's a lot of division about what should happen next as it related to dean rashad. in the entertainment community, are we seeing a division? are we seeing people come out, not with statements like we saw from cosby, to support her? >> not really to be perfectly honest. what we have seen across all of the spectrum in the entertain m industry is a rebuke of what bill cosby was convicted of, rebuke of the over turning of his sentence even though it was not said he did not do this. the courts did not say you were innocent. the court said it was a technicality so they over turned the conviction. what you have seen on the whole, there may be a couple of outliers but what you have seen a a full throated rebuke of this entire situation. >> yeah. it felt as if she missed the four years of the metoo movement. her tweet in support of her friend was just so tone deaf that we'll see. she says she's now going to do some active listening and take sensitivity training on the campus. it's interesti

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i mean, this is from the university of indiana. this is, of course, a university. but the president of that school said this is saving lives. it's as simple as that. talking about the vaccine and the mandate. and it will enable us to have a normal-fall semester. so why is it a step too far? >> you know, we -- we've been pretty good in new hampshire, recently, with numbers of covid cases. even with the delta variant and everything else that's coming along. we were able to open up the schools. in the local districts with the educators and the administrators in the spring had worked together to make sure that schools could re-open. so we've been open, you know, for a little bit, at this point. we are looking forward to re-opening in the fall, fully. and we just don't feel a mandate is really in the best interest of new hampshire educators or the students, at this point. we need to keep going along with all the other mitigation procedures. when you look at the vaccination, that's more medication than it is the mitigation. if you put everything together, we feel that, y

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william schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center. dr. schaffner, nice to see you. do you share dr. fauci's belief that we would still be battling smallpox and polio if we had had the same level of disinformation around when we were fighting those diseases? >> i think dr. fauci had a great insight. you know, at the time when we were vaccinating against smallpox, children and adults all came forward to be vaccinated. when polio virus vaccine first was available, the line stretched down the block, of parents and children coming in to be vaccinated. and there was not this kind of pushback and grousing and hesitancy and concern. and we would still have measles. we would have tetanus. we have german measles. we would have mumps. all these illnesses have disappeared because we universally have vaccinated our children and as adults, have come forward to be vaccinated. we can get covid virus under control. but we all have to come in together and do this. we all have to roll up our sleeves and get that shot. >> just to put this into perspective a

at least 9 states banning public schools and universities from requiring proof of vaccination. some because it doesn't have full fda approval. asked about whether it should be required in schools like so many other vaccines, dr. fauci said -- >> i would not be surprised that in the future this is something that would be seriously considered. >> reporter: a federal judge just ruled indiana university can't require the vaccine for those returning to campus. opponents about to appeal the decision. >> we have the tools to end this epidemic. it is up to use to utilize those tools to their maximum. >> reporter: a lot of parents of course want to use that tool, the vaccine, with their children who are under 12 years old. asked about when that data could be available, dr. fauci said the data is likely to be available for younger children some time in the late fall or early winter that. that is just the data. we can tell you according to the american academy of pediatrics, 23,000 new cases of children were reported in the last week. that's nearly the double reported at the end of june f

they are depending on us. >> reporter: meantime, a federal judge ruling indiana university can require students to get the covid-19 vaccine to return to campus. >> the sooner that everyone gets vaccinated, the sooner we can go back to normal. >> reporter: the delta variant sending younger people to hospitals. doctors in several states, experiencing a surge say there is one thing most patients have in common. >> we are seeing this surge because of its almost a pandemic of the unvaccinated is what're seeing. >> reporter: at the white house president joe biden urging all americans to get vaccinated as soon as possible. >> the data couldn't be clearer, if you're fully vaccinated, you have a high degree of protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death. if you're unvaccinated, you are not protected. so please, please get vaccinated. >> erica hill, cnn, new york. >> and joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta who is live for us from tokyo. sanjay, first, before we get to the questions of health, which are so at the forefront of these games, what is t

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we have implemented a universal mask man dade. so within atlanta public schools, we will start the school year out with students in masks. in addition to that, we started this past semester with the surveillance testing opportunity. so surveillance test sergeant available weekly for all of our buildings, for students and staff, to get surveillance tested for covid on a weekly basis. we believe that's been another layer for effective mitigation towards protection within the classroom. the others are quite similar across the board, appropriate social distancing, hand washing, disinfecting our buildings, but the ones that are most prominent have been around masks. for us, the addition of universal surveillance testing. >> what are the triggers to force the schools to resume remote learning? >> yes. that's been top of mind for all of us. i want to acknowledge how we have watched data relative to vax neegsz here, of course in atlanta public schools. as of last week, we had about 18% of our student population, 12 and under -- i'm sorry,

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and that's a major worry for this atmospheric scientist at the university of utah. perry says the dried lakebed soil could send naturally-occurring arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe. >> one of the concerns we have is the particles that are coming off the lake getting into people's lungs and it might contain potentially harmful arsenic. >> this lake could become one of the larger dust emission sources in north america. the ecosystem itself is on the verge of collapse. >> reporter: the great salt lake is also a critically important habitat for millions of birds and happens to be one of the largest breeding grounds for pelicans in the united states. >> if we don't take action, what's going to happen to the great salt lake? >> it will be an environmental, economic, and really cultural catastrophe all in one. there's all of these brine fly larva. >> reporter: jamie butler is a wildlife biologist who's dedicated her entire career to studying this ecosystem. for her the crisis is personal. >> i grew up here. like, you know a place becomes you. it, like,

in what universe does a politician not learn the fact you just don't make any comparison to the holocaust or hitler? >> to david's point, i think that it is happening in a post-trump world. this used to not be acceptable. people knew better than to say this. but after four years of donald trump anything goes. it is not just sad or dangerous because people are going to die because they're not vaccinated. it's also dangerous because we are seeing rising anti-semitism, more and more attacks. it is irresponsible and just appalling. >> i thought she would learn something by tours the museum here in washington. she didn't learn much. thank you. >>> we are learning some disturbing new information about a latest suspect arrested in the u.s. capitol siege investigation. brian todd is working the investigation for us. he is part of a sebible study group? >> reporter: that's a loosely knit group that he was affiliated. there's a broader concern. that extremisms are obsessed with the u.s. capitol. new information tonight on a chilling alleged plot to attack the capitol after january 6. court document

and universal masking works. we know it works. >> i love it because it has -- >> uncertainty is all uncertain about the guards that considered entering audrey into a vaccine trial but their bracing for the worst case scenario. >> i told my husband he could not work because he has to run at home school and audrey comes home and i'm the single breadwinner for the family of four. >> reporter: and around the country there is also this debate among many school officials whether or not they should require or offer routine covid-19 testing when classes resume here at david t. howard middle school, students and staff and faculty will have the option of guesting a covid-19 test every week. that is the policy for all atlanta public schools. as for gwinnett county where sarah is sending her daughter, that is unclear right now, poppy. >> thank you for your reporting. it is so important. so many families having to make hard choices. we appreciate it. >> and thank you for joining me today. i'll see you back here tomorrow morni

government should stand for universal values, for western values. they should not bury human rights under nuclear deal. that's my point. >> you said you've known for eight months of this plot to kidnap you, but you only learned the specifics last night. the plan to take you in a boat to venezuela, surveillance on not just you but on your family, on your friends. why do you think these details are coming out now? what changed? >> i'm not sure why, but i know that the fbi was going to publish these details earlier. i don't know what's going on behind the scenes. i really -- i mean, the fbi should answer this or white house should answer this or justice department. but i know that they were going to release this information earlier. i don't know what happened. it just came out now. >> what do you think if they had succeeded in kidnapping you, getting you on a boat and taking you on that boat to venezuela, what do you think they were going to do with you? >> can i be honest with you, jake? when you ask this question, i got goosebumps because it just rem

so until then, we have to go back on more universe al masking or it will spread like wildfire. >> and the agency is aware that it must overhaul its messaging as the best defense against the variant. the urgent city may actually be working here. in the last two weeks the number of people getting their first shot is un-44%. >> so how do you break down the brick wall of vaccine hesitancy thi in this country? president biden made his most serious plea yet. >> this is an american tragedy. people are dying and will die who don't have to die. >> and an urgent tone there. the president rolled out a new vaccine rermt for federal workers and he hinted a credit to presumptive democratic nominee since the vaccine was developed on his watch. i guess an attempt to blunt what has been some criticism on the right that this is a democratic vaccine. it is not. we also learned overnight members of the military will now have to disclose their vaccination status. jeff zeleny reports from the white house. >> reporter: president biden moving beyond simply asking americans to get vaccinations to requiring ma

we've put universal mask mandates back in place across our hospital. we've seen our governor put strong mask recommendations in place for all schools across the state. and many businesses are starting to put mask mandates back in place as well. i am concerned about the next month or so. it feels, once again, like the surge, the wave is coming. >> gosh, that is so hard to hear, but dr. megan ranney, we appreciate you giving it to us straight. thank you so much for all of your wisdom. >> thank you. >>> okay, joining us now is ken, the owner of the pilgrim house in provincetown, who is now requiring anyone who stays at his hotel to show proof of vaccination. ken, thank you so much for your time. we've been watching what's going on in provincetown so closely, so how did you get to your decision, that you're going to require all people coming into your hotel to show proof of vaccination? >> well, it's interesting, earlier, i think, alisyn, you used the word, "sobering." we had a very sobering experience shortly after the fourth of july week, which is a huge

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on friday, michigan state university and the university of michigan, both announcing the new changes to their policies because of the rising number of cases on campus, because of the highly infectious delta variant. both universities also have mask mandates in place, requiring that masks be worn indoors at all campus buildings and facilities. meantime, in hollywood, one of marvel's biggest stars is suing disney. actress scarlett johansson said disney breached her contract when they released the equipment "black widow" on its streaming service, disney plus and theaters at the same time. the actress claims she was promised a theatrical release. disney claims they fully complied with the contract. they say there is, quote, no merit whatsoever to this filing and that it's, quote, distress and callous disregard to the covid-19 pandemic. >>> since the president trump battle over tax returns, the justice department told the treasury department they must turn them over to the house ways and means compete. >> it's been a multiyear process for this to happen. caitlin pollen joins us now. the j

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university of arkansas for medical science is actually joining forces with a local church here in little rock, they know that some of the most trusted, most established institutions and communities are churches. so in order to try to gain confidence of so many people still unvaccinated, they are out there right now trying to get that number of the vaccination rate here in arkansas just 40%. the nation's top infectious disease expert is saying listen to the cdc and not pfizer when it comes to needing a vaccine booster. friday, this is what anthony anthony fauci told about a phone call he received from the head of pfizer. >> the ceo was a really good guy. got on the phone with me last night and apologized that they came out with that recomm recommendation. not the apologize about the recommendation but not letting us know that he was going to do it ahead of time. >> reporter: this after pfizer announced on thursday it was applying for emergency fda authorization for a booster shot to protect against covid-19. a booster for americans to get early as six months after their second dose. pfize

researchers at georgetown university have identified five significant clusters of unvaccinated people. primarily, in the southeastern u.s. stretching into texas and missouri. experts warn those areas could be especially vulnerable to outbreaks, and could allow new variants to develop. president biden's team changing its strategy, in recent days, focusing on a more targeted approach to get people vaccinated. >> now, we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood. and ofttimes, literally knocking on doors. >> one expert says it's time for the biden administration to consider vaccine mandates. >> the unvaccinated, also, affect the vaccinated. if you are a vaccinated person, but you are living among a lot of unvaccinated individuals, your chance of having a breakthrough infection increases. your chance of infecting others around you who are unvaccinated, also, increases. and by the way, the more unvaccinated people there are, the longer this pandemic is going to be. >> reporter: low vaccination rates, also, plaguing japan. where only 15% of the population has been i

capella university. don't just learn. learn smarter. >>> the u.s. has set a new record for pandemic-era air travel as we kick off the holiday weekend. 2.2 million travelers passed through tsa security checkpoints saturday. polo sandoval is joining me from new york city. when do experts expect the numbers to peak, if not now? >> reporter: yeah, that's a really good question. behind me, fred, are some of the roughly 48 million people who you said are going to be traveling, according to aaa. when you look at the other number you also mentioned, it is really quite telling here. just under 2.2 million people were screened at t sa checkpoins around the country. it is a record that's even higher than 2019. it speaks to the confidence that people have, hopefully many of them, obviously, being vaccinated. at the same time, this is also leading to some challenges for some airlines. you do have the increase in staffing that many airlines are trying to actually institute. american airlines, for example, they actually scaled back their flights by 1%, trying to c

we have supported, like i said, our universities, our brown university, university of rhode island, our other universities in the state, they've made that a condition for their students to get into the classrooms and onto campus. we support that. but we're not going to mandate anything. we've been very successful in rhode island to appeal to people that live in all our communities, all 39 cities and towns, to get vaccinated. and it is working. and as a result, i mean, just this week, you know, i attended the opening of the newport music festival. i'll be at the newport folk festival later this month. i marched in the fourth of july parade in bristol. it's the longest running fourth of july celebration in the entire country. so us being very diligent on this, pamela, it is allowing rhode island to come back real strong. and last year we had 26 million visitors to the state, you know, in terms of tourism. we want to keep that going. but we want to make sure people who are coming in are vaccinated, because we want to keep our state healthy and keep our economy healthy and open up our schoo

megan rainy at brown university and also joining us is dr. ali khan, the dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health. he advised major league baseball on their plans to resume play during the pandemic. i want to start with you, doctor rainy, because you wrote about your concerns of the olympics back in february. given the state of the global pandemic, was it ever realistic that japan would hold the games with spectators in a safe and secure way? >> no, i don't think it was. not with a rate of vaccinations on a global level. i mean, look at japan's numbers. they only have about 11% of folks within japan itself vaccinated. if you go globally, we're looking in the single-digits at the percentage of people that are vaccinated. back when i wrote that piece, we were worried about the b 117 delta variant and we knew it was just a time before the variants emerged and sure enough here we have the delta variant. banning spectators is the appropriate thing to do but i worry about the athletes brought together across the wo

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megan rainy, the associate professor of emergency medicine at brown university. dr. ranny, you're among health officials who believe full fda approval on vaccinations will encourage more people to get a shot. if people didn't want a shot under emergency use authorization, why would it change in classification do the trick in your view? >> there's some people who hear that emergency and emergency use authorization and somehow think the vaccine is risky or hasn't been fully tested yet. once it receives full approval, it takes away that small little bit of fear, and although people like me, scientists, physicians, public health professionals can say over and over again, listen, these vaccines have passed every scientific test needed, shown to be safe, getting that extra seal of approval will get some folks over the hump. >> just to be clear, what is the difference between the emergency use and full approval? >> so the really big difference is just that the full approval means that when the covid pandemic is no longer a public health emergency, these vaccines will still

colleen kraft is associate chief medical officer at emory university hospital. if we can begin with the risk to children here, i want to put some context around this, and maybe you can help. there are a lot of parents watching. poppy and i are parents. we are still talking about a very low percentage, by our math less than .07% of all covid deaths, 400 out of 600,000 nationally are children. if you're a parent of one of those kids, it doesn't matter what the numbers are. one death is too much. in terms of risks as parents are making judgments on how and how much to protect their children, how much of a risk is this? >> so i think, you know, elizabeth's segment just now is really clear. so we think this is the most transmissible. we think this is probably the most serious virus that you can get in your lifetime. so i think we know how to protect against transmission. it's just sort of whether or not we can balance our fatigue and sort of make it through this current wave of this current surge. i think we all thought we would be in a different place by the month o

dana hawkinson, an infectious disease expert at university of kansas health system. good to have you with us. just across the state line we've learned a hospital system in m missouri is having to divert patients because they're overwhelmed. is that impacting you at all? >> yes, it is. there's a couple of different cities or counties and the springfal springfield area, but we take transfers from the area. certain we've had more. it is not only for covid but it is for other regular or normal medical problems which people seek care for. but, unfortunately, the capacity issues at those hospitals because of covid, they aren't able to treat them either. so it is for covid reasons but it is also for normal medical reasons which people seek care for that they just don't have the capacity to. >> i hear you. what is the covid situation for you in your own hospital's capacity and resources to deal with it? >> yeah. you know, i think we've been very fortunate here in the metro area, in the kansas city metro area since the pandemic began. overall, we haven't had too much capacity

he is an infectious disease and global-health expert at the university of oxford. so, you heard boris johnson. you know, he -- he will find support for this, throughout england and beyond. the fact that, look, this is a virus we have to live with. do you believe, though, that he is moving too quickly? >> i do. it's quite a stunning reversal. and, you know, what -- what concerns me a little bit is this kind of all-or-nothing approach that is only either all lockdowns or we have to get rid of everything. normally, we see restrictions being lifted when cases are falling. what's, of course, fairly unique about this situation is that we're currently seeing an exponential rise in cases. 25,000 a day and climbing, quite quickly, across the uk. now, the key thing here, of course, is because the relatively high level of vaccinations. about 50% of the population. it's weakened the so-called link between cases and hospitalizations. so hospitalizations are rising, but low. i think the government is really betting on the idea that we can tolerate a steep rise in cases, without