vaccination. i guarantee you people need a little extra push sometimes. there is a lot of people willing to be vaccinated. they haven t focussed or gotten that final piece of inspiration. but when you can t go to a restaurant or movie theater, people will say, it s time to get vaccinated. it is time. so simple. so easy. readily available for free. just takes a few minutes. mayor, thank you so much for joining me. thank you, wolf. just ahead, we will get an update from one of the major new covid hot spots. we re talking about louisiana which just broke a pandemic era record for hospitalizations. stay with us. you re in the situation room. not all 5g networks are created equal. it s clear to see. t-mobile is the leader in 5g.
4.7 million americans have been vaccinated. according to the washington post s vaccine tracker more than 806,000 doses were administered on friday, the highest daily figure since july 3rd. many of the new vaccinations are taking place in covid hot spots. on friday multiple media outlets reported that louisiana had seen a 114% increase in vaccinations. arkansas saw a 96% increase. alabama saw a 65% increase. and missouri had a 49% increase. another report now from nbc s vaughn hillyard on the rising rates of vaccines across the country. reporter: the country s hottest infection spots this month are also leading the country in vaccinations. across the u.s., a 31% jump this week in first doses
reporter: and in those internal c.d.c. documents, a recommendation that masks be reinstated unilaterally across the country, not just in those covid hot spots. but the c.d.c. has yet to make that official. norah. o donnell: all right, thank you. and this just in, actually. president biden was just asked by our weijia jiang if americans should expect more covid restrictions. and he said, in all probability. another element there. charlie de mar, thank you. let s bring in our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. he speaks regularly with c.d.c. director rochelle walensky and other top health officials. dr. lapook, so glad you are here. all right, let s talk about this, because the c.d.c. using those words the war has changed, what exactly does that mean?he well, the war has changed because the enemy has some new weapons. it s more transmissible, more infectious, probably more deadly. remember in may when the c.d.c. relaxed its guidance about mashes, back then the delta va
testing even vaccinated people to make sure this variant isn t evading the vaccines. current cdc guidelines say fully-vaccinated people can refrain from routine testing. thanks so much, athena jones from new york for us. in springfield, missouri, right now, right in the middle of one of those covid hot spots. today, the ceo of a hospital group there said one of his locations was running low on ventilators. and they took in 97 new patients at just one hospital. cnn s miguel marquez is in springfield. miguel, over and over, these health professionals say it s the unvaccinated getting sick and dying. reporter: yeah. and over and over, they are correct. one, little statistic for you. i could quote them, all day long. but here in green county, where we are in springfield, the county reported 17 deaths this week. didn t all occur this week but they reported 17 deaths this week. all 17, they were unvaccinated. at cox health here, the the delta variant is a real concern here. it was, f
The researchers also identified locations that could easily become hot spots with changes in land use. They found that parts of Japan, the north Philippines and China south of Shanghai are at risk of becoming hot spots with further forest fragmentation, while parts of Indochina and Thailand may transition into hot spots with increases in livestock production.