difference. >> athena jones, thank you. louisiana is now breaking its record for the number of people in its hospitals, sick with covid. a short time ago, state's health department announced there are now more than 2,100 patients in covid wards which exceeds a record set back in january. you see every county in louisiana has high transmission of the virus. just 37% of the state is vaccinated. joining us now is rebecca gee, former secretary of the louisiana department of health. thank you very much for being here. how can louisiana be worse today than it was before vaccines were available? >> unfortunately louisiana is familiar with disaster. recently we fail ed with the covid vaccine. as you just pointed out we have one of the lowest rates of