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Surge in COVID-19 cases in some areas

The U.S. is seeing an outbreak of new coronavirus cases in areas where vaccination rates remain low. Infections are being driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, which is now the dominant strain in the U.S. It accounts for 83 percent of cases. CBS' Michael George reports on the latest on the pandemic. Then Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the importance of vaccines.

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FDA flags small risk of neurological disorder after J&J vaccine

Federal health officials flagged "a small possible risk" of developing a nervous system disorder after receiving Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, after the CDC identified a very rare pattern of Guillain-Barré syndrome in some recipients of the shot. As Nikki Battiste reports, there have been about 100 cases, mostly in older men. Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, joins CBSN to discuss vaccine concerns and a recent spike in new infections.

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U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan by August 31

America's longest war is coming to an end, with President Biden announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan will conclude by August 31. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe, Politico White House correspondent and associate editor Anita Kumar, and The Washington Post's Capitol Hill reporter Rhonda Colvin join CBSN's "Red & Blue" with more on the impact, as well as the latest push by Democrats to protect voting rights.

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