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And the case counts are going up and some are dying. we have to do everything we can to protect the whole community and that means the kids in this room who dont agree with me and the kids in the classrooms. if we dont do this, swrooel a needless tragedies i dont want that for my community. >> again, a majority of parents in the country do support masks but a vocal and in some cases angry minority do not. and after this tennessee meeting we just showed you there, some of that minority became thr...

The south already sent home back to virtual school. why? exposure and/or high case counts where they live. >> masking is i think a lot of us would say something pretty small that we can do in order to prevent all these negative consequences. >> nearly 99% of the u.s. population lives in counties where people should be wearing masks indoors according to new cdc guidancech meantime, more than 75,000 people are now in the hospital fighting the virus. look at that line climb over the past month. tha...

Tonight as the delta variant rages across the u.s., the fda is on the brink of authorizing the first covid-19 booster shots for some people with compromised immune systems. nick watt has our pandemic report. >> reporter: this is franklin, tennessee. >> we know who you are. we will find you, and we know who you are. >> reporter: after a school board vote for a mask mandate, members, doctors, nurses harassed. the president saw this video. >> our health care workers are heroes. to the mayors, schoo...

From the health and human services department. pediatric hospitalizations for covid-19 in the state of florida is more than four times higher than it was a month ago. were hearing a lot from hospitals in the state saying that they are feeling overwhelmed. in fact, florida right now has one of the highest hospitalization rates in the country. >> one of the highest case counts. thank you. nick, you are there in new orleans at childrens hospital in new orleans. what are you seeing there? >> reporte...

Covid case counts are surging. >> delta is changing the game of what we thought we knew about everything with covid. >> reporter: there were 94,000 new cases in children last week. while hospital rates are tripling icu doctors tell nbc news theyre seeing healthy children in addition to those with underlying conditions. doctors say delta variant is as contagious as the chicken pox, and unlike the flu, complications and long-term effects of covid on children are still unknown. >> it can be dangero...

>> delta is doubly infectious and its also deadlier, because more people become ill. theres an interesting set of graphs, comparing the united states with the united kingdom, rapid increasing case counts in both places but in the united kingdom where they have a higher vaccination rate, they see a much lower increase in hospitalizations and deaths. that kind of divergence between cases and severe illness that you see in the united kingdom, you see much less of in the u.s., particularly in places...

Professionals say theyre not taking it seriously. thats because of the mixed messages by the government. the prime minister has come out and said that the olympics has not resulted in the increase of covid-19 infections but medical professionals warn as a result of the olympics increasing the flow of people the case counts could triple in the coming weeks. michael. >> all right, blake, thank you. outside the stadium there in tokyo. appreciate it. well take a quick break. when we return, heat fue...

Worried because a lot of times there are critics who say dont focus on the case counts but results. it is true if younger get it theyre less serious to get sick or die. but with the new case counts, 61,000 people hospitalized in the united states because of covid, a year ago it was 65,000, the parallels are eerie, the numbers about the same as it was a year ago and heading back up again, to your point of being concerned, these hospitalizations may be unlike some of those, most of these are compl...

He can get the public to mask up. he can mandate masks. he can get the public to increase their vaccination rate by essentially either mandating vaccines or empowering businesses to use vaccine passports, but hes refusing to do that, or he can shut down. the governor of florida refused to do all three of those. the state is on fire, and if you prevent the fire department from coming to the rescue of a house fire, that house is going to burn to the ground and thats what is happening in florida no...

102-degree heat with no air circulation. my goodness. ashley. ashley: so amid the ongoing crisis at the border, officials are warning covid positive migrants are being released into the u.s. but the cdc director says migrants arent to blame for high covid-19 case counts. take a listen. >> do you know the surge, how the surge of illegal immigrants with covid is affecting the overall rate? >> the percentages in the southern part of the country are quite high and i dont necessarily think we can att...