| "Facebook and other social media platforms can provide helpful information on the facts behind the vaccine. But at the same time, there are those that can use those platforms for their own benefits to continue to push disinformation." - Former CISA director Chris Krebs on the spread of COVID-19 disinformation.
Welcome to the "Face the Nation" Five at Five newsletter. Scroll down for your five takeaways from today's broadcast of "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan on CBS. Did someone forward you this? Sign-up at cbsnews.com/email. 1. Gottlieb warns Delta variant will be "most serious virus" unvaccinated get in their lifetime  Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration, warned Sunday that for Americans who are unvaccinated and become infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the virus will be the "most serious" they get in their lifetime. What Gottlieb said: "This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious that it's going to infect the majority -- that most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected or they will get this Delta variant," Gottlieb said in an interview on "Face the Nation." "And for most people who get this Delta variant, it's going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital." Why it matters: The Delta variant has fueled a rise in coronavirus cases, with the number of new infections rising in all 50 states. Hospitalizations have also increased 36%, and deaths are up 26%. On Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said "this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," as nearly all people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 have not been inoculated. 2. COVID-19 cases spike as vaccination rates plummet  Fueled by the Delta variant, COVID-19 cases have spiked in all 50 states, while vaccination rates are plummeting. CBS News' Mark Strassmann reports from Texas, among the 20 states with the lowest vaccination rates. 3. Mullen says reports post-election chaos within Trump White House are "incredibly disturbing" 
Admiral Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that a reported episode contained in new books about former President Trump and his final months in the White House that described efforts for him to remain in power is "incredibly disturbing" and demonstrates the "chaotic environment" of the Trump administration.
Several of the recent books published about Mr. Trump, as well as an article in The New Yorker, detailed the concerns from General Mark Milley, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the former president would use the military to stage a coup to deny President Biden the presidency or launch a strike on Iranian interests as a way to remain in power. What Mullen said: "The two threats that you talked about, the external one, and whether or not we would commence some kind of combat or conflict with Iran, and then the internal one in terms of where it might go, particularly with respect to how the military would be used by President Trump to somehow validate that the election actually was a fraud and keep the president in power, I think that's all very accurate and obviously incredibly disturbing, literally in every respect," he told "Face the Nation." Why it matters: Mr. Trump spent the weeks after the presidential election spreading baseless claims that the contest was rife with widespread voter fraud and alleging the election was rigged against him. But the former president has lost many legal battles filed in an effort to reverse the outcome of the presidential elections in several key battleground states, and federal cyber agencies declared the 2020 election to be the most secure in U.S. history. 4. Schlesinger discusses what is behind the "biggest price increases in 30 years" 
Watch CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger discuss the economy and inflation.
Schlesinger says there is "red-hot consumer demand" and a bottleneck of supply in certain areas, which has led to the "biggest price increases in 30 years." 5. Becker says proposed changes to election procedures could be "national security issue"  David Becker, director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said Sunday that efforts to change elections procedures related to the counting of ballots and certification of results could potentially pose a national security issue if partisan officials are tempted to reverse the outcome of an election. What Becker said: "Imagine now we're in a highly partisan environment. We're concentrating more voting on Election Day in polling places where there might be long lines, where partisan poll watchers have free reign to engage in chaos. And then we are now injecting partisanship into the counting and certification process where partisans might be tempted to overturn the will of the people, and they are somewhat empowered to do that by their legislators. This could be a void that our adversaries see and try to exploit in some ways." Why it matters: In GOP-led states, Republican lawmakers are considering new election rules that voting rights advocates argue will restrict access to the ballot box. This week, Texas Democrats fled their state to block a vote on Republican-backed elections legislation. Becker said some of the changes being considered by the legislature in Texas are unprecedented and could open the door to chaos. | 
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