those who are ending up in the hospitals. i was at jacksonville hospital recently at baptist medical center where 99% of their patients are unvaccinated. and i spoke to some of the patients who were on breathing machines in the covid ward and this is what one of them told me. bad? yeah, i cannot breathe good. i have shortness of breath. i feel sorry about not getting a vaccine. you re sorry you didn t get the vaccine. do you think you would be here if you had gotten the vaccine? no. we re seeing a lot of regret among those unvaccinated patients. that woman told me her whole family was unvaccinated and they all got covid. they now plan to get the vaccine but there s a lot of concern, too as schools start to reopen and kids return to the classrooms here. 10,585 new cases on average for children under 12.
a virus that for some will ravage the body killing to date more than 4 million people around the world. so imagine for a moment not being able to breathe. that s what our health care workers on the covid front line are seeing again and again every single day. i feel bad. bad? yeah. i cannot breathe good. i have shortness of breath. i feel sorry about not getting a vaccine. why didn t you get vaccinated, ma am? i was scared. do you regret not getting vaccinated a little sooner? i regret it, yes, i do. i feel like i was dying. i couldn t do nothing for myself. i wouldn t wish it on my worst enemy. it s horrible. joining me now is florida internist, dr. michelle aquino. this footage is heartbreaking and i want to make an appeal to the people who are watching, if
florida is now the epicenter of the surge we are seeing. cases have more than tripled in the past few weeks, and every coin county in the state has high levels of community transmission. cnn went inside one florida hospital where covid patients are pleading for vaccines after contracting the virus. we re getting ready to intubate the patient, putting them on a ventilator, and they say if i get the vaccine now, could i not go on the ventilator. so they are begging for it. bad? yeah, i cannot breathe good. i have shortness of breath. i feel sorry about not getting a vaccine. you re sorry you didn t get the vaccine. do you think you would be here if you had gotten the vaccine? no. all right. joining me now is politico reporter, gary fineout, who has spent the past two decades