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Hospitalized have been above the age of 12. what that tells me are these are children that could have been immunized, this is a preventable disease. as we talked about in history when we had diseases before, polio, small pox, these are preventable. >> reporter: across the state, you are looking at vaccination rate of 49.1%. the numbers drop when you look at ages from 18 to 29. about 44%. we know it is less for children 12 to 18. somewhere around 40%. with high schools obviously starting to fill up in the school year, hard to keep cases down with vaccination rates so low. >> i know you can't gi...

The health situation is a dire one indeed. they're shifting patients from hospital to hospital. the state is running low on icu beds. so that is why the schools are shutting down. 38 out of 171 school districts are shut down right now in the state to try to control those numbers. central to all of this is a very ugly political fight over masks. for many superintendents in the state, it shouldn't be a political fight. take a listen to what the superintendent in harrison county told me a short time ago. >> masks are necessary in schools. absent masks we don't have the social space within the sch...

Technically tell us to stay at home when the government forged ahead with the olympics, despite strong public opposition. so this surge is probably inevitable, it's public opposition. so this surge is probably inevitable, its past 8pm now which is when bars and restaurants have been asked to close. but you can probably see behind me that some of them remain open. this is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story... england, scotland, and wales have relaxed travel rules allowing double—vaccinated visitors from the eu and united states with no quarantine. to the us, where the ...

Here because, yes, the authorities said that it's going to last until august, but experts say the way things are going, if the cases don't slow down, it could go on until september. interesting, september there again. to the us, where the delta variant is also spreading rapidly — and vaccination rates are low. officials say vaccination rates have fallen to the lowest level since january — 49.1% of the population have had both jabs. the head of the us centers for disease control and prevention said covid is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated. in alabama, state officials report 94% of covid ...

Be a legal, in their opinion, for businesses and organizations and employers to issue a mandate. >> thank you for having me. i think it is such a great piece of information, in our arsenal against the covid-19 vaccine. to have this information. it is critically important, that we encourage all members of society that are able to get the vaccine to get vaccinated it's only the way we are going to surmount the pandemic. >> it's kind of interesting. let's just put of the cdc's latest numbers on vaccinations. the percentage of the total population that is fully vaccinated is just under 50% right n...