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To figure out if you want to function in this world, and we want to move forward, we have to do that. the president was very very firm about where the resistance, theres always some legitimate resistance to vaccinations and drugs but the president was very clear that a lot of this is politicized. does that make a difference, is it going to make people sit there and say i need to get vaccinated. >> i think it is. if we go to other countries where they have had something similar, france, italy, gr...

Is clearly nervous here about the delta variant, about the resurgence in the virus, but also the effect on the economy. those two things key to his approval rating. one reason weve seen his approval rating drop over time here. first question to you, do you think he gets it right here by going to mandates now in response to this? >> reporter: oh, absolutely. look, the president was reflecting a rising anger in parts of the population that doesnt get a lot of news attention. when he says, our pati...

Governor jim justice exasperated with vaccine conspiracy theories as the number of covid patients in his states icus has reached an all-time high. this morning well hear more about the presidents big announcements today as it pertains to dealing with covid. jen psaki is going to be on the show to talk about that. so theres a big speech. and theres also still a big problem in places like west virginia and florida where, in miami alone, 13 school employees have died. there are growing numbers of c...

>> thats a lie. theres no nice way to say. its a lie. it affects an enormous number of people. there are peoples children who are dying in icus. and there are peoples relatives dying and icus. because desantis is an incompetent governor. >> i think, thats important because again, there is a cartoonish we sort of bullying version, of the public help messaging on vaccines that might not work very. well or may offend. people and i think theres reasons to try to avoid that. but theres also of course...

Protective tool america and the rest of the world had over generations for ailments that otherwise would kill millions and millions of people. why negate this possibility. do i think theres some lever appropriate and forceful enough, of course. funding is that type of lever. without having access at this point still to the last batch of federal funding which for miami represents about $1.2 billion, yeah, that is a critical element. >> alberto carvalho, chad geston, interesting similar challenges...

Efficiently without having numerous and just an unbelievable amount of quarantine. >> reporter: now, as a backdrop of schools closed and a special legislative session at the capital which will last through this week, you have hospitalizations at an all-time high, cases at an al-time high. 13 now, in one week. the governor says the situation is at a brink. hospitals are having to move patients around in icus that are full. last week was the first week since the pandemic began where kentucky fell ...

It has to be transported for smaller hospitals to a care centers like ours is. one of the things we really concerned about is not being able to service other patients other than the covid patients. we serve a large referral area. >> what could the national guard do for you in your hospital? >> we think they could do thing thinks like helping with patients in the icus manually prone them. thats one of the ways were trying to save people and on the ventilator is flip them over on their abdomen and...

>> you had three covid patients nap was two months ago. today, whats the situation? >> youre right. we had three and none in the icu. today we have over 110. it has gone up like a rocket. our icus are filling up. we have covid floors that are quasi icus . we just seen the numbers shoot through the roof. >> are you getting ting assista from the national guard and fema task force and strike force as miguel described? >> we requested assistance from the national guard.

More afraid to ask questions, and engage in thoughtful conversations. i just try and empathize with them. >> youre sort of on the rise in iowa, the past few weeks, case counts have been up nearly 50%. hospitalizations are also on the rise. what are you facing in your state? >> you know, our biggest difficulty regionally is just finding access to critical beds and its not just for covid patients. we are still seeing the same mix of heart attack, stroke, and you know, trauma. its when we need to f...

Weve done a lot at the department in terms of handbooks and guidance. we really need to work together to keep our students safe, number one, and learning the classroom. theyve -- as i said earlier, theyve suffered enough. theyve been disrupted. we cant let this year be another year of disruption. i tell you, anderson, in those places that are less likely to enforce the mitigation strategies that we know work, were seeing sad stories of emergency rooms being filled up and icus being filled up. we...