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Houstons five pediatric wards out of bed space. forcing 11-month-old ava rivera to be airlifted, 1 50 miles away. >> my baby is not breathing, help me, please. they told me that there was no room in houston, no pediatric beds. >> ava testing positive for covid. what was it like for you to watch your daughter be flown away. >> one of the most heart breaking things a mom would have to go through. it was really painful having to see her connected to all these machines and having to see her be airli...

Vaxed. and theyre backing it with data that proves the vaccines more than halve their chance of reinfection than natural immunity does. this is about protecting one another, protecting children, who are now in one of the most at-risk categories because many are too young to be vaxed. an 11-month-old covid patient in texas just airlifted to another hospital 150 miles away because there was no bed space for her. none of the major pediatric hospitals in the houston area have beds available to a loc...

Saving lives. some of the unvaccinated whove already been infected with covid cling to the notion that they have natural immunity. but the cdc today is strongly urging the recovered now to get vaxed. and theyre backing it with data that proves the vaccines more than halve their chance of reinfection than natural immunity does. this is about protecting one another, protecting children, who are now in one of the most at-risk categories because many are too young to be vaxed. an 11-month-old covid ...

By fears about the spread of the delta variant. and driven by date that a that shows that unvaccinated people face a much higher riskch death from covid. were still taking steps backward. the rate of new vaccinations isnt fast enough to outoperation the delta variant or any new variant that could emerge. we just learned that the u.s. is now averaging more than 107,000 new cases of covid-19 every day. the highest in nearly six months, thats according to data from johns hopkins. and as this case c...

Week. >> all right. florida state senator, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. lets turn to texas now. its reporting the second most cases behind florida in the past week and in a sign of how dire the situation is there, i want to show you these pictures. an 11-month-old girl from the houston area needed to be air lifted to another hospital 150 miles away because there was no bed space for her. one of the officials at the hospital says they were disheartened by the transfer bu...

Houston had to be air lifted 150 miles away because of a lack of bed space in pediatric hospitals. >> the emergency rooms at our major childrens hospitals here in houston, home of the largest medical center in the world, are extremely crowded. they are filling if not full. >> the surge in the delta variant now delaying return to office for many companies. wells fargo and blackrock both giving it another month. amazon bumped it back to 2022. cnn also pushed its return back by a month and fired th...

Dream of joining the army and becoming a pilot so she can travel around the world. >> thats why i want to get vaccinated so, like, i can help the world, that the world can get better. we can go back to normal life. and i also want to be safe. and, yeah, thats why i want to get the vaccine. >> reporter: camillas mother tells us that several days after getting that first vaccine shot that the young girl is doing great. there are ominous warning signs that the toll the latest coronavirus surge is p...

The vaccination front. and alisyn, if you look at the trend lines here, just in the last month and a half or so, everything is spiking dramatically. its like going straight up. hospitalizations, in some areas around texas, youre starting to see areas that dont have icu bed space or theyre under ten available icu beds. and the number of cases also spiking dramatically in just the last month. and despite all of this, the governor says -- well, you can listen to it for yourself. and this is his app...

Have the co-morbidities have been vaccinated. it is young people, people who are completely resistant that are not getting vaccinated, so hospitals are seeing younger people coming in and theyre seeing them come in sicker. because theyre young and able to fight hospitalization, they stay longer now. theyre staying two and three weeks. the problem is not so much the bed space in hospitals but staffing. thats what they are going to be -- thats what theyre increasingly concerned with now. one top s...

The peak of the surge over the last winter, we hit our peak on december 28th at 113 patients in the springfield hospital. we surpassed that over the weekend at 116, 115, and today we are at 122. >> wow. we know from the peak of the pandemic that not just the bed space and the resources -- first, lets talk about the ventilators. i know that you were looking for ventilators. do you have enough for those patients you need? >> we do have enough ventilators. you know, we are blessed to be part of a l...