this feels like a number worth celebrating. 77.6% of all eligible adults in the u.s. have received at least one dose. is the number still 85% that folks feel like we need to reach, or have the infections been so vast and so tragic and so sweeping that we may be inching towards something that 77% is a good number? you know, i think 77% is a good number in every zip code, nicole. the problem here is that in parts of florida, you still have 20% of the most vulnerable not vaccinated, which is why florida icus are full. i was just in tennessee, shipping patients that were critically ill over 65 to cleveland for advanced icu care. so it depends on the demographics of the zip code, so that number is great, but it would be great if it was in every single zip code. 75% or higher. tell me where folks like yourself who have sort of seen
businesses and their hometown, and they refused to do it. the same people that have been bellowing, let us get back to our normal routines for a year now have a passport to normalcy, they will not take it, instead they embrace the lies. they embrace the conspiracy theories, they believe what they read on web sites that are run by chinese religious cults more than they believe what they are told by their hometown doctor. it s all too much. well, you re not ramble because you re getting at the heart of the issue now, why people aren t getting vaccinated: why hospitals in those states you re talking about particularly in the south are not filling up, they re full to the max. they don t have icu beds left, and they re shipping patients out of state to care for them, and what you said is right is that people are now, because of the information filters they have, because of the political
but we are our hospitals are at a crisis point. in northwest arkansas, we re shipping patients to denver, colorado, because we can t find anywhere to put emergency patients. dr. gupta, in the time that we have left, i want to get your thoughts on this story in the new york times on tuesday about pfizer and fda authorization. fda aims to give final approval to pfizer vaccine by early next month. dr. gupta, how do you think if the fda says officially that the pfizer vaccine is it s been given our gold seal of approval, that that will is the thing that some people are looking for as a reason to then go get vaccinated? how helpful would that be? extremely helpful, jonathan. so it will help us address hesitancy and to help educate at the point of inoculation so absolutely vital. but it s also going to give
to that and i also try to pay attention to what the hospital leaders in communities are saying. you re seeing ceos of large hospital systems in missouri call out for help for more ventilators, for more respiratory therapists, they re shipping patients to other hospitals. that all is crisis. now, maybe it s not happening across the entire state, i m sure it s not, but there are pockets of mississippi that are really struggling and that we hear it from the healthcare leaders themselves. so, we ve got to pay attention to that. dr. ashish jha, thank you as always. new developments in the assassination of the president of haiti. the white house says officials from the fbi are going to head there soon to help investigate. plus we have the latest from surfside, florida. cnn goes inside the sister building of the one that collapsed. what a structural engineer is saying about the situation there now. welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about