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You see the vaccination rate is the lowest. this is vaccination rate. right? so now were going to look at cases for 100,000 people. where is the problem? the darker the state here, the higher the problem. its the same area. im going to stop here for a second. florida is the highest. but you see arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama. there is zero, zero, zero dispute here. where vaccinations are low, cases are higher and if you look at that florida number now, it jumps off the table at you. >...

He said in addition to prayer, he wants to take action which is why the church held a vak si flags event over the weekend and he tried to convince the members of the church that faith and science do go together. here is what he said. >> i just choose to believe our god gives us opportunities like this. we put our trust in jesus. we put our trust in jesus to take care of our hearts too. when your heart starts going bad, you go to the doctor to get it checked out. theres in reason why medical scie...

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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 ...

Brett: we talked briefly about the border with secretary buttigieg who is the transportation secretary, not the department of homeland security secretary. but there is this issue inside the administration about the border, how to talk about it, how vice president harris deals with it and were seeing covid numbers rise among the illegal immigrants coming across the border in record numbers. >> president bidens advisors view the border situation as among, if not the biggest political liability tha...

In alabama somehow getting applause for celebrating how unvaccinated that state is. listen. >> you lucky people here in alabama might get a knock on your door because i hear alabama white might be one of the most unvaccinated states. >> a pasta that. applause. >> i dont understand any of this. this is bizarre. you mention i have a loved one down there. fortunately she got vaccinated in march but they are putting her life in danger. shes working every day going out there dealing with a lot of unv...

Today than it was months ago. >> two times as harder. because the resources are low. the mentality of the nurses is strained because all of the patients are sick. and we want to do our best to take care of them but it is a never ending battle because there is always more patients to take care of. >> reporter: now lets show you a little bit of putting florida in the context of the nationwide trends here. new data showing that as of today, the hospital patients classified as covid-19 patients in f...

And propel us into the future. from pandemic star to politic al parriah. >> i never touched anyone inappropriately. that is just not who i am. >> the governor must resign. can he no longer do the job. >> inside politics, the best stories sourced by the best reporters now. >> im manu raju in for abby. 108,753, the new number of cases a day right now, the highest in six months. in 50.1, half the country is fully vaccinated, a major milestone, but that means half the country still is not. >> toda...

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...

But there is a risk that lambda may end up being a more resilient variant. whit? >> janai, thank you. for more on all this, lets bring in dr. aileen marty, distinguished university professor of infectious diseases from florida international university. dr. marty, thank you so much for joining us. we just heard in janais report there, your state of florida is seeing a real surge in covid cases. 134,000 just this past week. hospitalizations are the highest in the country. were getting reports of i...