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Is in places with very low vaccination rates. states like mississippi, alabama and louisiana. all in the bottom five in terms of vaccinations, but the top five in terms of cases. the situation is particularly bad across the south. talking about places like florida where covid patients are taking up a quarter of the hospital beds in the state and at the same time, the state's governor ron desantis has tried to ban masks and so-called vaccine passports that prove he got the shot. just yesterday, a judge ruled in favor of norwegian cruise lines saying they can demand proof of vaccines. the state ...

Conference rooms, literally doing everything we can to try to accommodate that volume. >> reporter: that state reporting more than 130,000 new infections over the last week, driven mostly by the delta variant. and it's not just florida. covid tearing through unvaccinated communities. across the u.s., the average number of hospital admissions up by more than 40% in the last week. health-care workers stretched thin in louisiana, reporting the highest case rate in the country. the positivity rate there now over 15%, the highest since the start of the pandemic. >> we continue to not yet see any ta...

Seriously. a national play to republican-based audience to do anything to oppose president biden. >> let me say things in florida are not just bad, they are epically bad. the case rate per capita in florida, over 90 per 100,000 is among the worst in the world. louisiana is worse, and botswana is worse. that's it. if florida were another country, the u.s. would consider banning travel from florida. it is extraordinarily bad. and the governor's statement that we can either have a free state or a biomedically locked down state say false dichotomy. you can do both. he is doing nothing to stem this...

44% over two weeks. these improving signs come but not soon enough for everyone. consider that last year, around this time, there were about 57,000 new covid cases per day. so that's one way to count it. that is a clear number. and that was obviously a lot. you know, we lived through this together. 2020 was a year that became synonymous with tough times. so how are we doing now? tonight? are we approaching that same rate i just showed you? are we a bit higher? a lot? well, the news is no good there. the daily case rate is now almost double. that's about 100,000 cases, spurred by this contagiou...

Underlying conditions are already fully vaccinated, we are going to see a much lower death rate compared to the case rate. so vaccines are saving tens of thousands of lives. but basically, bottom line, you're about 100 times more likely to be killed by this virus if you don't get vaccinated. >> i want to come back to the vaccination. you talk about things could get worse as we look. it's largely in the south, the southeast part of the country will the vaccine rate is behind the national average. 39%, 34%. 35% across georgia, mississippi. those are also the places that go back to school earlier...