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developments in states around the country. i m jeremy diamond at the white house where the biden administration is having preliminary discussions about ways it can use the federal government s powers to leverage more vaccinations in the united states. now, these discussions while preliminary they do include, we re told, initial discussions about ways to with hold federal funds from nursing homes and other institutions unless they require vaccinations among their staff. now, these steps would mark a significant step towards a much more muscular federal vaccination campaign, but a white house official stressing there are no imminent policy decisions at this time. reporter: i m leyla santiago in in miami, florida, now leading the nation when it comes to covid-19 hospitalization. the florida hospital association warning that 60% of hospitals will face critical staff shortages in the next seven days. we re seeing additional measures being taken by places like jackson health system, now
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louisiana and missouri is an epidemic that could have been prevented and the stories of the people in the icus saying that i wish i had been vaccinate and a final text message from a 39-year-old father to the wife, i wish i had the vaccine before i died. isn t that enough to wake people up? we know that the vaccines are safe and effective and they work against the delta variant, and so if you have been on the fence, anybody listening right now, this is the moment to step aside from all of the misinformation and frankly disinformation put out there, and you can t count on the vaccinated people to save you. you have to become one of them. and so, now, looking at florida, the new covid cases, 1 of 5 cases in america is in florida. you can see it there. florida breaks the record for covid-19 hospitalization, and more people are hospitalized and suffering from covid than during what we thought was the worst of it, and this is from the miami
have to answer, but they are preparing for it, geoff. to hear it at our lady of the lake medical center in baton rouge, it is the largest hospital, and they have welcomed a team of 30 medical workers and part of the emergency team sent by hhs to shore up the staffing here and sent here, because this is the worst situation this hospital has seen not just in year, but since this pandemic began. full stop. so you would think this time last year, they could handle the influx, but they have the beds, but they don t have the staff to handle this influx of patients coming in right now, and 50% of the patients here under the age of 50, and within that group, they have a younger patients as vaughan mentioned as well. teenagers and the youngest patient admitted here for covid is four weeks old. the children here having difficulty breathing and some of them in icu, and that is why the chief medical officer here says it is crucial for people to get