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That. lets talk about the whole issue of the public health crisis, get the public health facts and yes, decide for yourself. here are the facts. covid are getting way worse, it is worse than last year. thats why alabama is out of icu beds. 36% of its residents are vaccinated. it is a problem there. 88% of the patients in alabama hospitals where this is going on are the unvaccinated. they are the people doctors are trying to help by say hey, if you are vaccinated, far less likely you are in the h...

That the situation is under control. there is a few more details coming in. again this is a man who is in a pickup truck, law enforcement sources telling me and evan perez, the pickup truck doesnt have plates on it so we dont know if theyre from washington, d.c. or came from far away. we dont know the details yet. but this is continuing to unfold, kate. >> thank you very much. well get back to you as this clearly is developing as we speak. thank you very much for those details. coming up for u...

And could completely eradicate the usage of the vaccines in the first place. we have to start thinking broader than the united states and america. >> which is so much of what weve been hearing. i do want to ask you though, dr. hilton, so much of how this happens will have to do with the rollout itself. what will it look like to get this right? >> the rollout. unfortunately what we saw is the first rollout took a mobilization. those have disappeared. the reason why were saying were going to wait ...

Now, there are across the state makeshift icus. icu patients in hallways, icu patients being held in e.r.s, med-surge patients on high flow oxygen and more invasive devices that are in nontraditional areas that they should be. look, in terms of the state of the hospital system, were standing in a garage with field hospitals. i think that speaks for itself. i mean health care in mississippi is not good right now in terms of what we can do just from -- just from the standpoint of being able to car...

Limits. that field hospital, though, in the basement at the university of mississippi medical center is still not enough in mississippi. today mississippi health officials held a press conference to announce a second field hospital being opened in a second parking garage at the university of mississippi medical center. one of the doctors at the press conference today, dr. alan jones, said last week that the state was on the brink of the states hospital system failing. a reporter today asked him ...

Could just see, if we could get more cameras into these icus, they would not be willing to accept some of these lies and conspiracy theories. >> oh, absolutely. and our miguel marquez has done a wonderful job of doing that and showing it to our viewers. but our viewers are not necessarily the people who need to see it the most. >> "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. president biden pushing a boost in the nations fight against covid. "the lead" starts right now. this hour, president biden...

>> pressure hasnt phased the school board which voted to extend the school mask mandate for another eight weeks. and not permitting a parent opt out. broward county also returns today with a mask mandate. arizona increasing school funding but promised to withhold extra money from schools with mask mandates. all this back and forth over masking at a critical time here in the u.s., 88,000 americans are currently in the hospital. that is the highest number since early february and more than five ti...

Announce his diagnosis but announce thats how he has been treated. the biden administration has been encouraging people to seek out this kind of treatment. the idea is if you find out that you have covid and you have even just mild symptoms, you should get a monoclonal antibody infusion before you get sick, before you rush to the hospital or the emergency room. they can reduce hospitalization by 80% among people who are otherwise at high risk of progressing in their covid disease to that need fo...

Officials into action with the announcement of a third dose for moderna and pfizer vaccine recipients subject to an independent review from the fda. >> it is now our clinical judgment that the time to lay out a plan for covid-19 boosters is now. we planned to start this program the week of september 20, 2021. i want to emphasize that this decision was not made lightly. it was made with careful consideration by the top medical and public health experts and it was made by data, thoughtful analysis...

That people need from the virus. >> you dont want to find yourself behind playing catch up. better stay ahead of it than chasing after it. >> it sounds like well see booster shots on a pretty large scale beginning september. what can people expect if youve had two shots and going to get a third? how should people be getting the booster shots sooner rather than later. >> i would respectfully disagree in making this available based on the date that we have publicly to everybody. i think its a smar...