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President of the united states is backing all of florida school boards and superintendents that are going to take that position. >> reporter: at least three schools in mississippi have temporarily closed following an outbreak of covid-19 cases. in gwinnett, georgia, 629 positive cases between students and staff since the start of school on august 4th. even states traditionally doing were with the virus are getting hammered by the delta variant with oregon and hawaii both setting records of new cases on friday. >> friday 13th has never been so frightening. it is real. it is terrifying. and trag...

Parking garage at one hospital. for you it has to be frustrating to see. it's like a scene out of the spring of 2020. we're a year and change into this pandemic and it seems in a lot of ways we're losing progress. >> this virus is gaining so much speed ahead of the rest of the population, boris. i didn't think i would be having this conversation with you now. this is supposed to be summertime when the virus doesn't really misbehave. can you imagine what happens when we get into the colder weather? but i think what's most frustrating for me as a doctor that sees covid patients, is the fact this...

Fluid situation, but are you feeling and is your team feeling some battle fatigue at this point from this? >> oh, no question about it. ordinary, i have a nurse that was crying on my shoulder because she was -- we have a patient that have a cardiac arrest and nen another one and another one. it was one after the other. we are exhausted. i mean, we are working non-stop. patients keep on coming. and the worst part about this is that this was foreseeable and this was preventible. so not only we are exhausted. we are annoyed. we're annoyed because people are not doing the right thing. >> and talk ...

Cases per 100,000. but the state with the lowest vaccination rates are seeing 10 to 20 times as many new cases per 100,000 people. it's moving like wildfire through the unvaccinated community. and it's heartbreaking, particularly because it's preventible. that's why we're doing everything we can to get more people vaccinated. and we're seeing real results. in the past two weeks we've seen a 55% increase in the average number of new people getting vaccinated every day. in the last seven days alone, nearly 3 million americans have gotten their first shot. that's the highest seven-day total in a ...

Policies in place. mask mandates, social distancing, temperature checks and so forth. again, we felt well prepared for this, but we have certainly been surprised by what we have seen. >> one of the things that stands out to me in the reporting is that 1 of 5 staff members that tested positive had actually been vaccinated. i mean, this was preventible, do you feel like there was more you that could have done to get these people vaccinated? >> so, i'm pretty -- i'm proud of our vaccination rate at the school. at the school, we have 75% of our staff vaccinated. and that's almost double what the r...