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Vaccinated blue states, our vaccine rates are not universal. you still have large pockets of folks who are unvaccinated, and i will tell you, working in the e.r. that i am seeing increasing numbers of people who are unvaccinated coming in really sick with covid and getting hospitalized despite living in rhode island, a very blue state with good vaccination rates. it will still spread among the unvaccinated folks in our communities. the second thing is that every hospital in the country is short ...

We are seeing the federal government surge personnel and resources to some of the worst-off states, mostly in the south, to try to increase among other things uptake of these life-saving drugs. this antibody therapy is now a big part of the strategy to try to keep people out of the hospitals, keep people out of the icus, keep beds open as the delta variant keeps spiking and hospitals in multiple states are getting swamped. you will recall our reporting from last week about the university of miss...

Wood Mackenzie’s latest study outlines the major role that the Firth of Forth industrial cluster could play in Scotland’s journey to net-zero.

The goal is not to prevent from you testing positive. its to keep you out of the hospital. if it is to keep you protesting positive well never have enough shots in arms. constantly booster shots every six months is craziness. we need simple goals that make sense. >> dr. gupta, do you think once every head of a household mom or dad can make a decision about vaccinating their child as young as they are when vaccines are approved, do you think we really risk a split in this country, the vaccinated ...

Care act. we need financial incentives, well penalize them if they decide not to get vaccinated or we need to think about ways we have a ration kill already now, nicole in icus across the country. kids are filling up icus across the hospitals for non-covid pneumonia. when are we going to prioritize for those who are responsible ahead of those who are not. >> dr. gupta thank you for spending time with us. the next hour starts after a quick break. dont go anywhere. were just getting started. qua...

Especially i speak as a critical care provider, we provide advanced therapies in the hospitals to people like organ donations. we expect those people to make responsible decisions, you need a liver transplant and cant drink. here we are providing critical services like ecmo, dialysis to let 99% of people in icus that are unvaccinated, we think how to ration care, there are other things leading to being in the icu, nonrespiratory viruses. we need to prioritize and think how we ration care. >> wha...

Texas and florida leading the nation in the number of current pediatric coronavirus hospitalizations. thats according to the latest data from the u.s. health and human services. meanwhile, the cdc says just 70% of the eligible population has received at least one dose of a vaccine. ill say that again. only 70% of those eligible have received at least one dose of a vaccine. vaccines have been widely available for months. we are nowhere near herd immunity. the head of the nih is predicting the u...

About how dangerous the delta variant could be for children. let me play for you what the dire director of the national institute of health has said about this. >> more than 400 children have died of covid-19 and right now we have almost 2,000 kids in the hospital, many of them in icus. some of them under the age of four. so anybody who tried to tell you well dont worry about the kids, the virus wont bother them, that is not the evidence and especially with delta being so contagious, kids are ve...

That we should use them all because that is really what its about, protecting our kids. >> you mentioned earlier about how important it is to follow the data. what more do we know? i saw dr. collins on tv over the weekend saying more children are now ending up in icus? is that because more adults are vaccinated or the delta strain, in particular, is hurting children more? >> i dont think we know the answer to this. we definitely know that the unvaccinate are at much higher risk because the delta...

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