AS SUMMER FADES INTO FALL THERE'S A PUSH TO TRY TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES. THIRTY STATES HAVE YET TO GET AT LEAST 50-PERCENT OF ITS RESIDENTS FULLY VACCINATED, ACCORDING TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. AND THE CLEAR MAJORITY OF THOSE GETTING INFECTED: PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T HAD A COVID-19 SHOT. PRESIDENT BIDEN'S TOP MEDICAL ADVISER SAYS THE U-S IS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION ON COVID CASES AND THOSE VACCINATED AND UNVACCINATED WILL SUFFER. SOT Dr. Anthony Fauci/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease :11-:22 "we gotta get more people who relate well to the individuals that are not getting vaccinated to get out there and encourage them to get vaccinated as well as the trusted messengers in tthe community. :25-:30 We have the tools to do this. This is an uneccesary predicament we're putting ourselves in." THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS DISCUSSING WHETHER MASK GUIDELINES SHOULD BE REVISITED AND THE C-D-C IS RECONSIDERING ITS CURRENT STANCE ON FACIAL COVERINGS.
THREE - POINT - FIVE MILLION DOSES OF THE MODERNA VACCINE AGAINST COVID-19 ARRIVED IN COLOMBIA TODAY. THE SHIPMENT WAS THE SECOND DONATION FROM THE UNITED STATES. COLOMBIA GOT ITS FIRST DONATION OF TWO-POINT-FIVE MILLION DOSES OF THE JOHNSON AND JOHNSON VACCINE ON JULY 1ST. THE LATEST SHIPMENT WILL ALSO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE GROWING POPULATION OF VENEZUALA REFUGEES WHO HAVE FLED THEIR NEIGHBORING COUNTRY TO COLOMBIA. THE DONATION IS PART OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S PROMISE TO DONATE 14 MILLION DOSES OF VARYING BRANDS OF VACCINES TO COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCED ANOTHER APPOINTMENT TO THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TASKED WITH INVESTIGATING THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U-S CAPITOL. PELOSI TAPPED REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE ADAM KINZINGER TO JOIN THE COMMITTEE. KINZINGER HAS BEEN A VOCAL CRITIC OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND ONE OF 10 HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO VOTE FOR HIS SECOND IMPEACHMENT. HE IS JOINING REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY OF WYOMING AS THE ONLY REPUBLICANS ON THE NEW COMMITTEE.
