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Fall, midwest not as bad. now it is sort of changed a bit. there are a couple reasons. you still have a large, unvaccinated population in michigan. more than 40%. i think close to 45% still unvaccinated so a lot of people who don't probably have vaccine add vaccine induced immunity. it is getting colder, people are going indoors more, more chances for the virus to spread. the screen now is important in terms of the story in michigan with hospitalizations. the vast majority of people in the hospital in the icu on ventilators, 8 #8% are unvaccinated covid-19 patients. that is really a concerning...

West to new york in the east six cases in nebraska alone connected to one person's trip to nigeria. >> i would consider the cases to be mild to moderate. >> reporter: but for now experts say the real threat is more delta than omicron on average, 860 people still dying every day. the unvaccinated 11 times more likely to be hospitalized. 14 times more likely to die than those who are vaccinated at uw health, swedish american hospital in rockford, illinois, they have never seen so many covid cases at once 108 patients hospitalized 20 in the icu on ventilators. all but one unvaccinated. this icu d...

South. and the risk of hospitalization once a child is infected has not really changed that much. i think people would be surprised to recognize that only about 50 to 60 kids have been hospitalized in the entire northeast region this past week in terms of the hospital census. so this has been very localized. you'll see at children's hospitals, because kids centralize there, you'll see a few kids in the icu, on ventilators, and certainly you'll see deaths from time to time. that's reason enough to vaccinate kids. but i think we have to be careful not to overstate how much severe disease we're s...

Children mixing in casual gatherings with unvaccinated and vaccinated adults, in areas with low vaccination rates, we're seeing a lot more kids getting infected. but when you actually look at the hospitalizations, they've been very concentrated in the south. and the risk of hospitalization once a child is infected has not really changed that much. i think people would be surprised to recognize that only about 50 to 60 kids have been hospitalized in the entire northeast region this past week in terms of the hospital census. so this has been very localized. you'll see at children's hospitals, be...

The national guard, these clinicians have day jobs, but they're also part-time federal employees that can be activated by the federal government and deployed in times of disaster. >> how many people can you treat in this mobile hospital? >> the maximum is gonna be 50, but that will decrease depending on acuity, the higher acuity, the sicker the patients and the few where the patients will be able to treat. you >> mentioned the pediatric hospital. where is the capacity for the pediatric hospital? >> so our pediatric hospital is full. we had 21 pediatric patients today, six in the icu, for on ve...