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Dr. gupta, a grim milestone, 700,000 americans dead from covid-19. help us understand, how does that strike you, especially in a moment when we have vaccines, vaccines are free and readily accessible? >> geoff, good afternoon, great to see you. of course the last 200,000 deaths, probably 90% of those were preventible if we think about the loss of life since vaccines were widely available. geoff, we're expecting we'll cross an additional 100,000 deaths likely by january 1. we're continuing to lose americans, deaths that are preventible. what i would say for everybody out there right now watchin...

Their travelers because it's the best way to keep covid-19 from disrupting your business. >> dr. amish adalja and shaquille brewster, our thanks to you both. meantime the pandemic itself has taken another lethal turn. we're again at 2,000 covid deaths per day nationwide. more than 100,000 americans have died of covid since may when vaccines were widely available. nearly all of those deaths were preventible. there are so many unvaccinated covid patients in idaho that hospitals don't have room for them and many are being transported over the border to washington state where hospitals are now s...

Manifesting at your hospital? and how is what i would imagine to be the frustration and exhaustion among health care professionals, how does that show up, with people coming into the icu, these are covid cases that were preventible. >> it's hugely defeating. i think you look across our whole team, not just doctors and nurses but everybody who works in health care, just exhausted. we're tired of seeing needless death. right now death from covid is largely preventible. it's incredibly rare for us to see a patient in our icu who requires a ventilator that is vaccinated. and i've got to say when i...

Says transmission rates remain high, even with 58% of the eligible population vaccinated there, so the florida governor ron desantis has been adamantly opposed to almost any mask or vaccination requirements. what are you doing or what can you do to help your constituents? >> fredericka, it's been a tragic summer here in the state of florida due to covid-19. thousands and thousands of floridians have lost their lives during this covid surge. so god bless all of the families out there and the health care workers who have been struggling to provide care in our overwhelmed hospitals. it's especial...

Everyone-sixteenth and older. the decision is at odds with the biden administration's initial plan to start administering boosters to the general public, a plan that was supposed to roll out just days from now. officials later clarified that any action would depend on a signoff from the fda and cdc. >> the vote comes as hospitals across the southeast are on short supply of staff and icu beds. alabama, for instance, seeing coronavirus deaths on the rise. >> we're still more than maxed out. we still have more patients requiring critical care than we have icu beds. we have double digit numbers of...