you know this curve very well with covid right now. it s astonishing how fast delta has surged in the state of kentucky. you re trying to deal with it, but you ve been limited in your ability to do certain things by your republican legislature. what can you get done now to try to slow this surge in kentucky? well, our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital battling covid, in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved one who is on a ventilator needing that assistance to breathe. recent supreme court case and our legislature limit my ability to do some things like masking. if i had the ability to do it right now, we would have a masking order when you are in public and indoors. we know that s a proven way to slow the spread of the virus and ultimately help our health care capacity, but that doesn t mean there aren t things we can do. i sent the national guard to our harde
and begging for help. about 80% of icu beds across the country are full right now, a third of them with covid patients. it s gotten so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital, in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved ones on a ventilator, needing that assistance to breathe. new cases are spiking. the seven-day average is 300% higher than it was last labor day. this as the white house planned to roll out booster shots that maybe by changing. let s bring in elizabeth cohen. so, elizabeth, what is the update on boosters?
mentioned. that had tripled in july. doubled again in august. a little bit of good news is that the weekly national numbers showed a 2% increase on thursday. so maybe there s easing on the horizon. but still, icu beds are filling up. let s zone in specifically on kentucky now and look at their hospitalizations which are topping 2500 people each day. the governor has called a special session at the state legislature to meet on tuesday to address these issues. well, our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital battling covid. in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved one on a ventilator and needing that assistance to breathe. i ve sent the national guard to the hardest hit hospitals and brought in fema who sent strike teams and now deployed nursing students all over kentucky.
information on it. as soon as we get more, wooem come back to you. thanks for that. hospitals across the united states this weekend are crying out for help. last year s covid hot spots are eclipsing their own records for hospitalizations. it s so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of ken kentuckians in the hospital battling covid and battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved ones on a ventilator and needing assistance to breathe. in georgia, less than 10% of icu beds are open. some hospitals there reporting even their emergency departments are full right now. we also learned that more children are needing emergency room visits and hospitalization in states with those lower vaccination rates. we have been hammering that
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