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There were also protests in switzerland. a pass is required there to enter bars, restaurants, and fitness centers. meantime, argentina has started vaccinating children as young as 3. right now the rollout is focused on children with weakened immune systems and other high-risk conditions. covid cases are unfortunately surging in russia. on saturday the government reported more than 1,000 deaths for the first time ever. for more we are joined by cnn's nada bashir in london. the breaking of the record is so tragic, yet things could still get worse. case loads continue to climb. what is the fear...

West virginia second highest in the nation. national politics is getting in the way of public health. >> if they had more vaccinations i would think these numbers would not nearly be as bad. seven-day new case average third highest, current hospitalizations, highest. seven-day death average, fifth highest. lower vaccinations, higher case loads, higher hospitalizations, higher deaths. >> justice is pleading with them to get vaccinated. are they listening? >> unfortunately not. we've seen as cases go up, states that even have low vaccination levels tend to get more vaccinations. that has not hap...

We're seeing more patients not only in volume, but they're sicker. so more patients on ventilators, more patients that need icu beds, and of course that's putting a strain on the staff and the especiallized staff needed who are taking on more and more case loads. some nurses are quitting. the national guard has come in to help a lot of these hospitals in areas just recently. some national guard members came in a couple days ago to this facility behind me, the university of texas medical center. and in tennessee it's actually tied west virginia now, those highest number of covid cases per capit...

That's a positive unintended conse consequence, or is it possible it will go the other way and we'll see just many more people hurting? >> well, i think it is positive in the sense that, you know, one of the strange things about this period is that you had a lot of labor shortages. you know, the first hit from covid, you had 22 million people losing jobs. and so, you know bs b, business just shut down, and then ramping back up takes time. so labor shortages have been a real problem over the last few months. so getting more people back in the market could help ease things. it's a very strange m...

Explain. >> there's not a consensus for vaccine mandates at this point. public is pretty closely divided when you ask about the various vaccine mandates that might be imposed on federal workers or health care workers or eggers or -- educators. requirements for vaccine to get on an airplane. the country is still evenly, pretty evenly divided. as i show in the piece, among the vaccinated, there's a much stronger consensus for all of those measures, including as i said, a substantial portion somewhere between a third and a half of the vaccinated republicans. i think that points to direction of wh...