It was all going so well for the United States and Covid-19. Before the summer, vaccinations were rising and cases falling. It looked normal.

And then the Delta variant hit, cases rose, hospital wards began to fill again, and with all that, the death toll increased.

With vaccinations hitting a wall, with some governors refusing to impose new restrictions and fake news rife, President Biden introduced a vaccine mandate.

Our Washington correspondent, Siobhan Kennedy, looks at the summer of Delta in the US, the new policy from the Biden White House - and how this will play with a country where the party lines are even more rigid when it comes to the approach to Covid.

For more information on the Covid vaccine, read Factcheck.

Sources: CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, 11ALIVE, WPTZ.