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Significant comorbidities, underlying heart disease, lung disease. there's a couple that have active cancer, undergoing chemotherapy, active hematologic mag lig nan see, don't have the immune system to work correctly. that's an important point to continue to address is that the people that have gotten vaccinated that we have seen in our hospital have significant comorbidities. even if they aren't specifically ill from covid itself, that disease process of covid may tip them over the line as far as other conditions go, like heart disease or underlying lung disease. >> so bottom line, get vaccin...

Five weeks ago. maybe three weeks ago, it is 10% of those sequenced and as of last week, it appeared to be 90%. so i think it is the delta variant and there is a lot of kindling with low vaccination rates so we're seeing it expand rapidly. we never imagined this big of an increase. >> 90% with the delta variant which we know is more transmissible. are the patients younger, are some of them vaccinated? >> we're seeing younger patients, we're seeing them sicker and we're seeing them arrive at our facility later in the disease process which limits some of the therapies we can do. we are seeing so...

Now makes up 90% of their new cases. >> the patients are younger and they're sicker. they're coming in later in the disease process, so we often have less therapies that are available for them. >> reporter: with the vaccination rates slowing and the country no longer on pace to meet president biden's goal of 70% of adults with at least one shot by july 4th, health officials are now trying to meet people where they are. in ohio, this pop-up clinic at an akron transit station brought doses directly to holdouts like james crumbley. >> what brought me here is i had to catch the bus to the other si...

In devastation until the u.s. >> we have seen increased in hospitalized patients in less than four weeks. our doctors are describing them as younger, sicker. they are often coming to us later in the disease process, so we have less therapy options for them. and it's turned from probably about 10% of our cases look to be delta variant and our healthy department is coming back with 90% of delta variants, so that's turned very quickly. the delta variant is fueling this because we have low v vaccination rates throughout the south. it's a reminder that much of the places with low vaccination rates,...

Diminished. this is problem attic from both perspectives. this decision may end up delaying development of treatments that may truly help people with alzheimer's. >> you mentioned, though, this was accelerated approval, which means that there will be ongoing studies of this particular drug and the fda explained their decision saying, in part this, currently available therapies only treat symptoms of the disease. this treatment option is the first therapy to target and affect the underlying disease process of alzheimer's. as we have learned from the fight against cancer the lettered approval pa...