coronavirus vaccines. you don t need to yell, i ll give you the microphone. reporter: these are meant to boost the state s lagging vaccination rate. we love that you keep covering it up. reporter: the governor hutchinson said vaccinations are up. we have a 40% increase in people getting the doses. reporter: that might sound good but it still means only about 40% of the state s population is fully vaccinated. meanwhile, covid hospitalizations have been rising daily over the past three weeks. the last time the state s icu had this many covid patients was january. but one little rock hospital has never had so many covid 19 patients. arkansas children s hospital. so throughout the pandemic, this is the worst you ve seen this is the worst we ve seen our kids, yeah, absolutely. reporter: half of the hospital s young covid patients are in the pediatric intensive care unit. at least two are on ventilators. when a child come into your
that. but you know, looking forward, you know, the scientists could tell us best what is happening with the pandemic but that is the crux of what is happening with the economy. heather, thank you for coming on. appreciate your time. thank you. coming up for us, health officials are facing backlash as they try to push to get more people vaccinated. we ll take you inside of a hospital seeing more children critically ill with coronavirus, next. [truck horn blares] (vo) the subaru forester. dog tested. dog approved. life can be a lot to handle. this magic moment,
this place down. now, dr. besser, that statement was kind of a chock-full of inaccurate information. i also try to leave on the possibility that maybe he s confused by the guidance and the science which some people are. with the revised guidance. what do you say to that? well, i was really pleased by the new cdc guidance because what it represents to me is rea realtime learning. when the cdc back in may said fully vaccinated people don t need to wear masks any more, it based on a number of pieces of information. one was the declining spread of covid. another was that vaccines were widely available. but a critical piece was that there was data that shows that people who were fully vaccinated would not spread this to other people. even if they were asymptomatically infected or had a mild breakthrough infection. what they ve learned now through
Man who had 1st COVID-19 case in Riley County speaks about virus journey
Andrew Smith and his entire family felt sick after going to the UK
The first person to test positive for COVID-19 in Riley County, Kansas is reflecting on his virus journey and what life was like a year ago for him.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The first person to test positive for COVID-19 in Riley County, Kansas, is reflecting on his virus journey and what life was like a year ago for him. At the end of that 10 days, things started to go a little. started to feel like something wasn t quite right, Andrew Smith said.