still not enough data on the johnson & johnson shot. so as the delta variant surges across the united states, two states, florida and louisiana, have the highest rate of new cases per capita in the country. yeah. the rise in cases comes as local leaders in florida push back against governor desantis s mask mandate. leila santiago has more. reporter: boris, christi, florida reporting more covid-19 cases in the past week than any other seven-day period in this pandemic. new numbers coming in from the department of health here in florida and they show that florida s reporting 151,000, more than 151,000 new cases over the past week here in florida. and here in broward county the broward teachers union telling us that two teachers as well as a teacher s assistant have died because of covid-19 complications. all three of them unvaccinated as the chairman of the school
are at the paramount. there are other things that are happening behind the scenes and our good friend john kirby didn t want to go down this route and claim this was a neo operation. certainly you don t call a neo. you never advertise you re doing that. that will cause terror in the government. you prepare for that behind the scenes. i think that s what some of the u.s. forces are doing both in kabul and doha and as well as in kuwait with a ready brigade from the 82nd airborne division. general mark hurtling, your expertise and thoughts are so valuable to us. thank you for being here with us and walking us through it. thank you, christi. absolutely. so this week three teachers in the same florida school district died from covid.
board points out, the school year here hasn t even started yet. let s just be honest, when we started covid we had leadership that first didn t even want to acknowledge that it was a real pandemic and that it was deadly. then all of the false information started to spread to make the vaccine suspect then, saying it was warp speed and all these kind of things that put fear and questions in people s mind that they didn t feel comfortable being vaccinated. and now we re paying a deadly consequence for it because people are dying. reporter: in a letter to the state education commissioner, the superintendent here in broward county is doubling down saying she prepares to move forward with a mask mandate that does not have an opt out for parents. something the governor said is noncompliant with his executive order that prohibits mask mandates. boris, christi? leila, thank you for that report.
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citi. in dallas we have zero icu beds left for children. that means if your child s in a car wreck, if your child has a heart congenital heart defect and needs an icu bed or if they have covid and need an icu bed, we don t have one. your child will wait for another child to die. that grim message coming out of dallas this week, similar to what we re seeing and hearing from children s hospitals in several states with beds filled nearly to capacity. the u.s. surgeon general told cnn this week that it s possible a vaccine for kids under 12 could be authorized for emergency use before the end of the year but ultimately that relief is still far away. here to share her experience is dr. aileen marty from florida