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Duval county, and the beds that are occupied by covid patient, and geoff, i can see that the beds are needed for other things other than covid, so it is causing a strain on care, and rationing of care and not just florida, but elsewhere. so, geoff, we are at the end of the road here, we are using something called e.c.h.o., and that is a way to oxygenate the blood outside of the body. a few of these exist in the zip codes across the country. so they are sparse life-saving techniques that we can u...

We are and why were there and what we need to do -- we talk about last mile in transportation, were potentially in the last mile of the pandemic. that last mile can be really tough. >> dr. gupta, are we in the last mile of the pandemic? >> this surge is going to certainly answer the call, i think well see, as some projections say 800 to 1,000 deaths a day attributable to those zip codes of 40% vaccination rates or less. were in the last mile in most places but there are going to be a bunch of ja...

Driving a wedge, saying that the vaccine and that the pandemic is really made up, are being so irresponsible, they have to have soul searching in my opinion. we know that getting the vaccine keeps people alive. thats the number one duty of any branch of government. >> yeah, for sure. when i mentioned that 46.6% of baltimore is fully vaccinated, it doesnt really tell the whole story, because you have pockets where the numbers are much more troubling than that. there are certain parts of the city ...

Hospital bed as some covid patients have saying, can i still get the vaccine. dont wait until its that late. were going to continue, as we have been, going directly into our zip codes that have the lowest vaccination rate, using our credible messenger, our partners, taking our mobile vaccinations to those communities so were having an impact where were most needed. this is about keeping people alive. we also have an increase over the last four months of positivity rate of 95%, and 100% of fatali...

Pillars. >> yeah. dont call it a mandate mandate feels like the direction we may have to go. let me ask you this, dr. gupta. if we dont see our vaccination intake increase, if the current wave doesnt scare the next ring of people to go get vaccinated the next couple months, what are we looking at for the fall? >> chuck, i can say from university of washington forecast, we expect worst case scenario if that occurs, if many zip codes, fully vaccinated rates less than 60%, especially with cold, dry...

Model here. how do you see that changing? >> we have philanthropists that are giving tickets to people. spacexs inspiration for, isaac is letting people from one woman, not hailey, i cant remember her name but she was a patient at st. judes with brain cancer. shes going to space to raise money to help other kids to help other people and i think that there will be more people giving their seats away. wally funk, she flew, she didnt pay the $28 million. there is this level of philanthropy i feel t...

Filibuster to protect our vote. it should be free elections regardless of the color of skin or amount of money in the bank account or zip codes. but thats not what is happening. what is happening if you live in georgia or other states across the nation your right to vote is not as strong as it is in colorado because legislators there are systematically taking away some americans freedom to have their voice heard in elections. >> it has been noted that your state has one of the highest voter turn...

Founder and ceo of advancing health equity. good morning to you both. steve, talk us through the rising code rates and what is being done in places like vegas where you are for people who have held off on getting the vaccine so far. >> reporter: well, there is a widespread effort to get people vaccinated. the good news, if there is any about the state of covid in nevada, is that people actually do regret not having the vaccine if they havent in the state. it is because there may be no more dange...

>> tucker: what does mckenzie tell them? >> this is fantastic. i told them you need to increase the sales representatives who were going out, the detail team, those that are selling the drugs directly to doctors by 20%, make them make more visits and dont have them waste their time on the low prescribing doctors because thats not worth it. go just for the high prescribing, go to the ones who are. >> tucker: i think a lot of people who first read about the story 20 years ago said to themselves th...

>> tucker: what does mckenzie tell them? >> this is fantastic. you need to increase the sales representatives who were going out, the detail team those that are selling the drugs directly to doctors by 20%, mako them make more visits and dont have them waste their time on the low prescribing doctors because thats not worth it. go just for the high prescribing, go to the ones who are -- >> tucker: i think a lot of people who first read about the story 20 years ago said to him and themselves thats...