states. but there is good news from pfizer in an israeli study showing the pfizer booster shot did well against omicron. still, experts are warning to keep an eye on the delta variant which remains the biggest threat right now. cases are up in 45 states. according to johns hopkins, the u.s. is averaging about 121,000 new covid cases each day. that s a 62% increase in one month, and hospitalizations are up 40% compared to a month ago. michigan is now one of the hardest hit states with covid hospitalization there s at an all-time high. cnn s miguel marquez has gone to one hospital in the state where it is deja vu all over again with health care workers desperately trying the save live. here is miguel s report. reporter: clive ellis, one of thousands of patients suffering with covid-19 stretching michigan hospitals to the breaking point. when did you know you had to come to the hospital?
my oxygen numbers were down, in the upper 60s, low 70s. reporter: oh, dear, that s very low. yeah. reporter: what does it feel like? it feels like a wreck. reporter: unvaccinated. this is the 66-year-old s second bout of covid-19. whatever natural immunity he had. it s my second round of this is way worse. reporter: and this is worse than the first? the first one was bad. reporter: it didn t help. his message now would you encourage others to get vaccinated now, though? yes. reporter: how important it is? how bad is covid? it s terrible. you don t want it. reporter: still, there are those like 62-year-old deborah laroche, in the covid unit for a week now who says vaccination just isn t for her. i didn t want to be vaccinated. you did not want to be vaccinated? no. reporter: you think you ll get vaccinated after this? no. reporter: why?
from james. so it will be up to a judge to decide whether trump will have to give a deposition. one expert says if he is made to do that he s going to make a much worse witness than he used to make which is already pretty bad. why? because he s gone through four years where basically no one tries to control him. everyone is afraid to tell him not to say things. so he ll be a complete wild card during a deposition. reporter: there s a separate criminal investigation of the trump organization by manhattan district attorney cyrus vance looking into the same issues of property value manipulation. donald trump himself has not been personally accused of wrongdoing in those cases. but there are other legal moves afoot to examine his alleged role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. washington, d.c. s attorney general announced a criminal probe into whether trump incited protesters to act vileantly on january 6th. no charges have yet been filed. u.s. capitol police officers have
i should be okay now? reporter: you think? yeah. reporter: the sickness, death and seemingly endless suffering taking its toll on those who come to work every day to save lives at lansing s sparrow health. the other day i had my first panic attack, and i didn t know what it was. like i m a nurse. i should know these things. and i drove to work and was just i couldn t get out of the car. what is going on. and it was a full-on after i sat there for a minute, oh, my gosh, i m having a panic attack. i did not want to come to work. reporter: stress, tension, anxiety on the face and in the lives of every health care worker here. i ve gone home a few days and had days where i just cry. and as a mom, it s really hard, because my kids then are challenged to see that. so i have to put on a brave front for them too. but it s awful. reporter: though most staff here are vaccinated, sparrow has no vaccine mandate for its workers and is still suffering a shortage of staff, worn th
expansive economic bill with inflation numbers this high. i don t know the answer to that. i ll be talking to him the beginning of the week. reporter: manch sin concerned more federal spending now will make inflation worse but the president is pushing back. economists think it s going to diminish the impact on inflation because it s reducing costs for ordinary people. reducing costs for ordinary people. reporter: manchin is also concerned by the cost of the bill overall. i talked to him this morning. he was stunned. reporter: in a new report requested by republicans found the temperature rtemporary boos is made permanent it could add trillions to the price tag. this was about extending all of the programs that would expire without paying for them. the president would pay for them. there s no bill that exists on this front. reporter: inflation also a top concern for voters who are paying more for food, gas, rent and used cars. but some of the biggest drivers of inflation