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Olympics on bars, and she got a bronze on the beam. she wanted to avenge both of those things. she couldn't do the other ones, but she came back and did it on the beam. it's amazing she went out and competed with everything she's dealing with now. she is a testament to strength. it doesn't mean you have to push yourself. if it was right for her, it's great to see. her taking care of herself first is the strongest position in the olympics. florida absolutely getting hit hard right now, and nobody wants to see that, but it is a laboratory right now for what the variant can do. they have four v...

The beam. she is a testament to strength. it doesn't mean you have to push yourself. if it was right for her, it's great to see. but she took a stronger stand than i've seen from anyone in the olympics. florida absolutely getting hit hard right now, and nobody wants to see that, but it is a laboratory right now for what the variant can do. they have four variants there that are spreading. and how measures in response will matter, especially their pushing back against the vaccine and now pushing back against masks. even as the state just broke its own record for hospitalizations for the third...

Hospitalized. and so our models predict we'll probably hit our all-time high for hospitalizations, within the next couple of weeks. and so that's what's really concerning for us. >> let's talk about that, we know hospitalizations can be a lagging indicator, and while we are breaking records for cases, not seen so far in this pandemic, are you finding that while more patients may be being admitted they're having better outcomes than we've seen in previous waves. >> yeah, so there's a couple of reasons for that. so, one is, there are more people vaccinated. and so there is some protection. now, ...

I think that cruise ships are still on the table. it is personal choice but maybe they would have a tighter system of figuring out how to screen you. airlines, too. you just said airports are even more of a problem than planes. i think screening should be more than just vaccine status. proof of immunity from prior infection and rapid testing if we had them. scarcity of rapid tests. >> trace: i want to put up the averages. the change from last week. cases 316,000, up 55%. hospitalizations up 9.1 percent. look at the bottom. deaths are down 10%. i know it is a lagging indicator. isn't this where...

In past surges? >> again, i think it's time to get very practical here. if your child is not yet vaccinated or not yet fully vaccinated, then you need to surround them with people who are vaccinated. get boosted if you have not yet been boosted. have them wear high quality masks outside. i know that's hard for the really little ones. anything we can do to improve our risk profiles, the better off we are. just keep pulling down that risk. i would avoid crowded places. i would avoid going indoors to places that you don't have to go to. i recognize this is all not possible for everyone all the ti...