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Hardest in the sense of most of those beds, more than 25% and in many cases overwhelmed with covid patients. look at the raw numbers. that helps make sense of it. florida now 668 open i.c.u. beds in the entire state. texas 368 in the entire state. add up those two numbers, yeah, you have around a thousand, somewhere in that area. but we're talking here about 50 million-plus people in those two states. another place is arkansas. 12 beds available. mississippi zero available. louisiana 206. alabama 112, so on. this is important for a lot of reasons. of course, every time you fill up those beds w...

That, 668 beds available. texas, population about 30 million. 368 beds available. oklahoma, 79. arkansas 12. alabama 112. louisiana 206. mississippi zero. that is how badly these people are being overwhelmed in the hospital, trying to deal with all of these folks. why does this matter? because icus are dealing with people who are having breathing problems, who are having heart problems, traumatic injury, tremendous problems. those people are now being pushed out by people who wouldn't take a tiny medical step and now are having to take enormous medical steps. erica. >> and that last line i thi...

Infringed. we're not going to engage in anything except say to the people you can do what you want and they are paying the terrible price right now. really important to compare when you start off by talking the beds running out, look at the raw numbers here. if the statistics are too much, look at the percentages that are too much, look at the raw numbers. these are how many open icu beds are being reported in these various states. 668 beds in florida. a state of roughly 22 million people. 368 in texas. a state of nearly 30 million people. look, mississippi, 0. alabama, 112. arkansas 12, louis...

Especially because we know how dangerous this delta variant is. >> again, i just want to go through it. i get criticized all the time saying we're overstating this, we're hyping this. this is where vaccinations are low. this is where cases are high. this is where hospitalizations are now going back up. the same overlapping area of the country. you mentioned politicians, many want to stay the course. florida adds cases, 668 deaths. miami herald, 23,000 new cases. more people than ever hospitalized. one of our other medical contributors, listen to this. >> it's so high in florida that i think if...

Very important number. let's look at the overall l.a. county numbers. at last count they dipped below 2,600 new cases. but those hospitalizations, 668. they are climbing rapidly. i'm at the county usc medical center. in june we saw the cases drop, we saw covid-19 cases here as the epidemiologists were telling us, one or two a day. now they have ten to 15 a day, almost every one of them are people who refused to get their vaccine, their shots. >> the numbers are extraordinary. >> as of right now this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. it's extraordinarily important. people who are vaccinated no...