'We are failing' to contain delta variant surge: NIH director - ABC News
George Stephanopoulos interviews Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, on "This Week." Aired on 08/08/2021.
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I think he's referring to the NIH which the anti-vaxxers aren't listening to - they prefer the "expertise" of whatever internet trolls which continue to repeat TFG's outdated "hoax" theory or recommend horse medicine instead of drinking bleach this time. 
Making up for the lost time squandered over the previous year when nothing was done except for espousing crackpot theories and dangerous recommendations which led to the nationwide crisis we're experiencing today.
And now we have the more transmissible variant! How is this allowed to go on?! A few months back I was in the grocery store and I noticed the guy pushing a cart ahead of me was wearing a Sturgis shirt! Yikes! I turned around and put half the store between us! 
Not really paying close attention to the question. She pointed back and said that person has COVID. I don't care, I already had it.
Her sister died of Covid on Friday. That side of my family are all lifelong Democrats and were all vaccinated, but she just turned 88 and had some other health issues. This is the first person I've known and this makes it personal.
She did all the right things to take care of herself. She had 4 kids, was especially proud of the eldest (Mary Ann!) who is a graduate of West Point! And she was the family historian. I always turned to her with questions. I was hoping that the call was about a family picnic - though I had to know better since we skipped last year and this year is worse. Before that, the last time I saw her was at a ceremony honoring their father (my great uncle) with a posthumous Silver Star for his service in WWI. 
And 700,000 maskholes all together...
Sickening thought.
They're the real baby killers. 
So why would they give a shit. Nothing lost nothing gained.
I am so angry.
And the vaccines that are protecting us now may not protect us from more virulent variants. So it's essential now - though it's criminal that nothing was done over a year ago - that vaccines are now mandated - and that we make the vaccines available to other countries in the world who are desperate for them.
And how there was a portion of the population who resisted using them initially. However, these days it's easier to avoid an auto accident than for the unvaccinated contracting Covid. The statistics are in and they're terrifying. Despite that we've had the vaccine which can prevent hospitalization and death for over 6 months, there are still idiots out there willing to take chances. And they're the reason it's spreading like wildfire and it's morphing into more transmissible and virulent variants.
I completely agree, we need to mandate vaccinations the same way we mandate seat belts - to keep everyone safe.
