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Considering and what we heard from the governor, his concern over hospitals, how do you think things are going in texas? >> its fractured the way it is in large parts of this country. i applaud mayor adler for looking after the best interest of his constituents. our children are most vulnerable at any time and now particularly during this pandemic. we have vaccinated almost 200 million americans now. not a single one of those americans is under the age of 12. every one of our young children in t...

Transmissible. and now we have evidence that kids are getting sick. >> if we want these kids in the classrooms as opposed to learning remotely, and we do want them in the classrooms. and these are precautions that need to be taken. youre joining us from houston where we have new images, look at this, from the lyndon b. johnson hospital where a tent has now been set up as the icu units, the intensive care units, are nearing capacity. are we really back to this, dr. hotez? >> the we are. but even ...

South putting some medical staff and icus again at their breaking point. childrens hospitals are also getting overwhelmed. cases spiked 84% among children in one week at the end of last month with nearly 72,000 new child cases reported. as the director of the national institutes of health said sunday, the u.s. has the tools to prevent this but not enough of us are using them. >> we would not be in the place we are right now with this delta surge if wed been more effective in getting everybody to...

That message may be getting through. tonight, all 50 states now reporting more residents getting their first dose. but for this texas family, that message was too late. lawrence rodriguez, a father of four, died after a weeks long battle with the virus. his wife lydia is still on a ventilator in the icu. >> when she was in the intensive care unit before she went on the ventilator, she had asked the doctor if she could get vaccinated then, and he told her it was too late. one of the last things s...

So sepsis is when there is a severe infection, and when the bodys response to that severe infection leads to organ failure. it can set in without warning, and can affect anyone. this is a lady in her early 50s, she is in day four on the unit, she was very unwell initially. people are admitted to icus for many reasons, but sepsis tends to strike when patients are at their weakest. we literally collect every heartbeat and every breath. when you first start in intensive care, when i started, it was...

Population of 6,000, and youre talking upwards of half a million, all together, crowded in bars. >> i do want you to listen to a sound bite from one of the attendees here in sturgis. >> go out, ride, have fun, dont worry about the rest, you know? do your good hygiene. if youre going to get it, youre going to get it. it doesnt matter. just do your thing. >> have you seen some -- does that frighten you? >> yes. its very sad. we see the cases in the hospitals, the icus, there is a sense of real reg...

Different in the demographics after 18 months in a health care system thats really tired after having dealt with this for the last 18 months. it used to be that people thought about older people and people with chronic medical conditions in these units, and now because those patients are now vaccinated, there are breakthrough infections, but were not seeing them with morbidity and mortality. but what we are seeing is pregnant patients filling up the icus or people in their 20s, 30s, 40s who have...

We know that the cancers we are missing tend to be smaller, they tend to be more aggressive, and those are the ones that we want to find. but as the pandemic hit, all of this had to stop. and as breast clinics emptied out, elsewhere the nhs was about to be overrun. the coronavirus pushed intensive care units beyond their limit. but even before the pandemic, these wards had been running at very near capacity. and it is here that one of the biggest killers in the uk, and indeed the world, lurks. i...

Frequent in this disease. nearly all the patients coming through to icu now have this new sepsis, and for the ai, this was an illness it had never seen before, nor had any data on. and remember, just because a computer has learned to be good at one task, doesnt mean it can do a different one. the ai clinician was back to square one. but the humans werent. their idea was to gather data from icus across the uk to create a database of treatments that worked, so the doctors in the thick of it could ...

Was stalled by, no surprise, a partisan stalemate. senators are confident the deal will pass. when? that remains a little bit murky. joining us is one of the republican senators behind the bill, senator bill cassidy from louisiana. thank you so much for joining me, senator. i want to talk about infrastructure in a moment. i want to start by discussing the pandemic, which is really ravaging the country and especially your state of louisiana. its in dire crisis. record number of hospitalizations. ...