point on it, if everyone was vaccinated you would have zero or near zero patients in your hospital suffering from covid? you can never say near zero because some people are clearly remember, the vaccines are 94% to 95% effective so you re always going to have a small group of peep not totally effective. we also have people who are immune compromised. they don t respond as well to the vaccine. but in general all you have to do is look at other states like vermont vermont, for example, right, which have achieved astonishing levels of vaccine coverage and they re not seeing anything remotely like this. in fact, if you graph the rates of vaccination coverage with the hospital rate you ll see there s a completely inverse correlation, so i think there s no question. also, when we look at the people in our hospital who are ill, we know that most of them are not vaccinated. probably less than three over
devastating surge, which is largely here being driven by the delta variant. just to put a punctuation point on it if everybody was vaccinated, you would have zero or near zero patients in your hospital, suffering from covid. you can never say near zero, because some people are clearly remember the vaccines are 94 to 95% effective. you will always have a small percentage of people who are not going to be totally protected, but we also have people who have immune immune compromise. people on dialysis and receiving transplants. they don t respond so well to the vaccine, but look at other states like vermont. they have achieved astonishing amounts of vaccine coverage, they are not seeing anything remotely like this. the rates of vaccine coverage with the hospitalization, right you will see there is and completely inverse correlation.
46% in oklahoma. 39% in tennessee. missouri across the southeast, then you look at the case map right now. where are cases going up? see the darkness? that s in the same area. dark is bad for cases. light is bad for vaccines. the overlap is indisputable in places where the vaccine count is lagging, the case count is climbing. be careful looking at the numbers of in a broad sense. when i ve had to do epidemic investigations, sometimes they re in an area with high vaccine coverage and looks good. all you need is one small pocket of low vaccination coverage to cause big eer outbreaks. in some cases you re looking at neighbors states. one state is a red state. one is blue. they have different vaccine kovrnl levels. both experiencing significant outbreaks. we need to keep driving this message whether we re talking about vaccine mandates potentially, whether we re talking about masking.
it s also insisting ferry passengers traveling to the greek islands show proof of immunity to protect its vital tourism industry. over on the other side of the world on saturday police in sydney ducked flower pots hurled by protestors furious about a new lockdown. australia had kept covid at pay australia had kept covid at bay by closing its borders but the virus sneaked in anyway and infections are now on the rise. and here in england, young clubbers celebrated not only the end of lockdown but all covid restrictions. partying in crowded venues on so called freedom day at the start of the week. the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in britain is back up again, over 30,000 every day but thanks to good vaccine coverage, the number of deaths so far, anyway, has remained low. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london.
newspaper of the villages in florida, delta variant fuels rise and hospitalizations. it s right there on their front page. here s the marietta times right in mariata, ohio. i should tell you in ohio it is literally front page news they want people to start backing into parking places on main street instead of going in head first. that s the usual level of like news you can use in the meriata times. look at their banner headline today. covid cases in the u.s. triple over two weeks. up in idaho, idaho leaders urge shots as covid cases rise. in austin, texas, the front page of the austin statesman today, delta variant driving virus spike. east austin lags in vaccine coverage. over in san antonio, texas, the front page of the san antonio