the crisis now, down from 66% in april. the administration is trying to slow the covid case load. now at one million a week with about 1,500 deaths every day. the white house is not ruling out taking additional steps, including requiring vaccinations to fly. we are always looking at more we can do to protect and save lives. we ll continue to look for ways to save more lives. and shortly after the president was visiting that school promoting mask wearing, a florida appeals court actually delivered a victory for ron desantis who issued a ban on any mask mandate, and the judge said for now the mandate can remain in place. the governor s decision can remain in place, so there will not be mask mandates, at least as this winds its way through court. governor desantis is among the republican governors leading the charge, pushing back against the white house. he focussed squarely on
so much. now, we want to take a look at the covid situation around the world. norway has seen a dramatic spike in recent weeks. for a third day in a row the country reported more than 1,000 cases. they ve been surging is there since mid-july when norway was only reporting 100 cases a day. the vaccine previously authorized for adults. in australia, new south wales is reporting more than 1,000 community cases. that s the highest case load so far in the pandemic. it comes as sydney has spent nine weeks in lockdown. all right. we are monitoring what the national hurricane center says will be an extremely dangerous major hurricane. a look at what the gulf coast can expect as it gets closer to landfall. and how the danger extends far, far inland. we ll have details after the break. and as the withdrawal of
much. we ll keep an eye on afghanistan and the other crisis facing the country is the covid cases are surging, and first responders handling the case load. that s next. this is andrea mitchell reports on msnbc.
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hospitalization? we re also seeing an increase in hospitalizations. you know, hospitalizations lag somewhat from the case load, but we ve seen doubling of the number of hospitalizations in the past couple of weeks. we re still well ka pas tated to handle that. we re worried when we look at the neighboring states, we think we re on the path to what happened in florida and louisiana and mississippi, alabama. so we re in a very concerned state right now. who are the patients coming in right now being hospitalized with covid? yeah. over 90% of them are unvaccinated. so it s a real message act the need to get vaccinated. we re also seeing younger patients we have seen in the past. over 50% of our patients are below the age of 60, which is unique. i believe this is largely because vaccination rates were quite high among people 60 and over. but we are seeing many teens. we re seeing some pediatric cases. so it is shifting from what we saw before. i think what s so interesting