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Group of individuals who are hospitalized for covid in our intensive care units on ventilators. these are healthy young 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds, who because of the aggressive nature of the delta variant are now being hospitalized. >> reporter: in florida and texas, the battle over masks and schools continues. the texas supreme court ruling the governor cannot stop schools from imposing mask orders. in florida, the state ordered two counties to give an opt-out option for their school mask mandates or lose funding and face new scrutiny from the state. >> my view is that the parents understand...

Pocket expenses associated with hospitalizations related to covid. initially they were and now they are starting to pull back. >> if care gets rationed, we know that there are some states with no icu beds left, should vaccine status be a factor in who gets a bed? >> i don't think that you can really do that in this setting because there is a lot of other set beings where people choose not to get vaccinated when they require hospitalization. we don't make those judgments. certainly flu is one of those. i would admit a lot of patients with influenza and many were unvaccinated. we didn't differen...

With georgia, mississippi, and texas. icus filling to concerning levels all at more than 90% capacity. alabama is out of icu beds statewide. >> we are seeing a much younger group of individuals who are hospitalized for covid in our intensive care units on ventilators. these are healthy, young 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds who because of the aggressive nature of the delta variant are now being hospitalized. the supreme court ruling the governor cannot stop schools from imposing mask orders. in florida, the state ordered two counties to give an opt-out option for their school mask mandates or lose ...

But what is perhaps most troubling is the spike in covid cases among children. now returning to school as mask orders turn their classrooms into battlegrounds. tens of thousands of kids are already in quarantine or isolation and school has just begun. what's quickly emerging in plain sight with the modern day political pawn. public school kids, many of whom can't get vaccinated, with nearly 6,000 students testing positive or getting exposed to covid in one florida school district alone. joining me now is dr. anthony fauci, chief medical advisor to president biden and director of the national i...

The procedures will be, how they're going to be able to be safe around everything else. other than that, i trust it. give it to the lord. >> reporter: and as you mention, the texas supreme court did halt some mask orders in dallas and bear county near san antonio, but hours later a judge in bear county issued an injunction on that order, allowing the mask mandate to stand. this is something that's changing by the hour, making it somewhat complicated for parents working to make decisions for their students. steph? >> complicated for you, stephanie. what is your plan now that the texas supreme c...