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WAVERLY— This week, the Pike County General Health District reported two additional COVID-19 deaths.

Dominant strain in england. all right, now to michigan, where hospitals are overburdened with covid-19 patients. health officials say many of these patients arent vaccinated. cnns jason carroll visited one hospital to see how theyre handling the case load. >> its been a lot worse lately, but we do what we can. >> the hours at work for nurses like lisa maddox seem never-ending. >> unfortunately, im not a super hero, im just a nurse. >> reporter: mad ddox is a covi worth working on eighth north te...

Has had an outbreak now causing staffing short action and other disruptions. what more do you know? >> right. it was described as a material uptick in covid-positive cases here that were detected with the district attorneys office in a letter that was sent to staff. they said that many of those cases have been relatively mild to moderate and they do expect obviously full recovery for those individuals there, and yes its led to staff shortages so they are trying to keep up obviously with the case...

To become infected in the first place. >> sandra: a doctor from johns hopkins says dont watch the case load, watch the hospitalization rate, the death rate, it is a more telling story when you have large percentage of your population vaccinated. great discussion, thank you. >> ari: thank you, sandra. >> trace: the parents of the michigan high school student charged with killing four during a mass shooting set to appear in court moments from now. do prosecutors have must have to go to trial? well...

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Driving this chart. the country is back to averaging 1,500 deaths every day, and that line is on a steep climb right now. the majority of those deaths, however, are still coming among the unvaccinated. i want to bring in now the director of medicine at baylor medical college we earring seeing 1,500 daily deaths and the number is climbing. can a push for vaccinations alone tap down these numbers? >> a push for vaccinations can definitely help but we also have to push for changes in behavior. i kn...

For a likely surge in cases. and they know that fair or not, the presidents political fortunes are tied to the presidents case load. hes the president, he gets the credit or the blame. >> for more, i want to bring in andy slavitt, a former white house senior adviser for covid response and a former acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. dr. uche blackstock is a physician and the founder and ceo of advancing health equities. she is also an msnbc medical contributo...

In Lewis and Clark County, and across Montana, the number of active COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has remained high last month.

Covid, and people get their information about it from different sources, which then inform these ongoing debates about how covid is going and what we should do about it. medical and journalistic sources are not random chatter from friends or facebook posts from who knows what its by. i will tell you the press has a different issue. our approach and tone about covid does have its own shortcomings, one being we cover it more when things are bad and less when things are good, which is where this co...