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Is in places with very low vaccination rates. states like mississippi, alabama and louisiana. all in the bottom five in terms of vaccinations, but the top five in terms of cases. the situation is particularly bad across the south. talking about places like florida where covid patients are taking up a quarter of the hospital beds in the state and at the same time, the states governor ron desantis has tried to ban masks and so-called vaccine passports that prove he got the shot. just yesterday, a ...

Conference rooms, literally doing everything we can to try to accommodate that volume. >> reporter: that state reporting more than 130,000 new infections over the last week, driven mostly by the delta variant. and its not just florida. covid tearing through unvaccinated communities. across the u.s., the average number of hospital admissions up by more than 40% in the last week. health-care workers stretched thin in louisiana, reporting the highest case rate in the country. the positivity rate th...

Seriously. a national play to republican-based audience to do anything to oppose president biden. >> let me say things in florida are not just bad, they are epically bad. the case rate per capita in florida, over 90 per 100,000 is among the worst in the world. louisiana is worse, and botswana is worse. thats it. if florida were another country, the u.s. would consider banning travel from florida. it is extraordinarily bad. and the governors statement that we can either have a free state or a bio...

44% over two weeks. these improving signs come but not soon enough for everyone. consider that last year, around this time, there were about 57,000 new covid cases per day. so thats one way to count it. that is a clear number. and that was obviously a lot. you know, we lived through this together. 2020 was a year that became synonymous with tough times. so how are we doing now? tonight? are we approaching that same rate i just showed you? are we a bit higher? a lot? well, the news is no good the...

Underlying conditions are already fully vaccinated, we are going to see a much lower death rate compared to the case rate. so vaccines are saving tens of thousands of lives. but basically, bottom line, youre about 100 times more likely to be killed by this virus if you dont get vaccinated. >> i want to come back to the vaccination. you talk about things could get worse as we look. its largely in the south, the southeast part of the country will the vaccine rate is behind the national average. 39...

From case rate so why arent people like tom friedman celebrating that instead of creating panic with no basis in fact? is reckless misinformation is a total fraud and then is to public health. he should be given the time of day. we have the unfathomable idiocy of the surgeon general of the united states, telling all of us, including the vaccinated, to wear a mask outdoors. theres barely any evidence of the virus transmitted outdoors. how is this? the top doctor? its not science. it is to do. non...

From case rate so why arent people like tom friedman celebrating that instead of creating panic with no basis in fact? is reckless misinformation is a total fraud and then is to public health. he should be given the time of day. we have the unfathomable idiocy of the surgeon general of the united states, telling all of us, including the vaccinated, to wear a mask outdoors. theres barely any evidence of the virus transmitted outdoors. how is this? the top doctor? its not science. it is to do. non...

From case rate so why arent people like tom friedman celebrating that instead of creating panic with no basis in fact? is reckless misinformation is a total fraud and then is to public health. he should be given the time of day. we have the unfathomable idiocy of the surgeon general of the united states, telling all of us, including the vaccinated, to wear a mask outdoors. theres barely any evidence of the virus transmitted outdoors. how is this? the top doctor? its not science. it is to do. non...

Past week, but there are glimmers of hope. weekly vaccinations rates are up from just three weeks ago still, far short of when the white house hoped s in the south, not seeing the number of shots double, but the south still has a long way to go. as bad as things are in the south, theyre about to get worse, if for lots of unvaccinated individuals. >> new cases in florida have jumped by more than 50%, in neighboring georgia, the new case rate has tripled. in louisiana, where they had the most case...

Provincetown outbreak, the cluster there, was a game changer for doctors and for researchers, so what did that teach us? >> that taught us that unfortunately, alisyn, although being vaccinated does continue to protect us against severe disease and hospitalization, vaccination does not fully break the chain of transmission. in other words, unmasking indoors for fully vaccinated people is no longer a safe choice, especially if you have people at home like kids or elderly parents who are higher ris...