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Got covid last august and was on a ventilator for 42 days. >> it's real. covid's real. i nearly died from it. and will, probably, have issues from it, for the rest of my life. i have family that they believe that it's real. but they're not concerned with taking the vaccine. they understand some people get it, and it's not bad. but i got it and it was bad. and now, we're seeing this new variant hit. and -- and it's really hitting arkansas. sorry. my sister doesn't have the vaccine. >> reporter: sunny says that recently, covid patients have been telling her they got it at church. this week, arka...

>> nick, thank you very much. this week, arkansas has its biggest spike in cases since february and it has the worst case rate in the country. now, some nurses there tell cnn they are not only fighting for unvaccinated people's lives but fighting against a torrent of verbal abuse by people who still do not plbelieve in the vaccine. one nurse spoke to cnn about how she and her co-workers are being pushed to the brink. >> they dubbed us health care heroes, it gave the public this really wrong impression that we were sacrificial lambs and willing to die for them. i want to save people and not a...

Vaccinated and writing president biden should be quote, applauded for the administration's vaccine efforts. that shift coincides with the delta variant tearing across the u.s. hitting conservative states hard where vaccination rates are some of the lowest in the country. >> it's safe and effective. i want to just encourage people. >> now republican lawmakers are being more outspoken in efforts to encourage people to get the shots. steve scalise announced he got the first dose of the vaccine on sunday after seeing the covid cases rise due to the delta variant. >> i was ready to get the vaccine,...

Vaccinated and writing president biden should be applauded for his administration's vaccine efforts. that shift in tone coincides with the delta vary yants tearing across the u.s. hitting conservative lee eaning states especially hard where vaccination rates are the lowest in the country. >> it's safe and effective. i wanted to show the picture to encourage medium. >> reporter: some republican lawmakers are being more outspoken to encourage people to get the shots. steve scalise announced he got first dose on sunday after seeing the covid scases rise. >> i was ready to get the vaccine. i alway...

Florida is once again a covid hot spot. right now it has the highest case rate in the country as new infections approach peak pandemic levels. governor ron desantis urges residents to get vaccinated, but that message is undercut by a group tied to desantis selling this anti-mask and anti-fauci merchandise. they're peddling this stuff in the middle of a surge that, once again, has local hospitals buckling. cnn's leyla santiago reports. >> and it shows you everything you have to wear before going into the room. >> reporter: behind every single door in this unit is a covid-19 patient. suiting up ...