teachers and everyone involved in the education system had what they needed. they were having another discussion. on an important topic but not a topic that it appears should have been the priority. and i think that the sentiment of san francisco, what you re seeing in san francisco is being seen all across the country. people want elected officials to focus, and that does not appear to have been the case with this board of education. dade, only six states in the entire u.s. still have indoor mask mandates in place in perpetuity. they re all run by democrats. we have hawaii, new mexico, washington state and puerto rico. the only ones left to announce whether or not they ll lift their indoor mask rules. do you think republicans criticizing these mask mandates, will it still be effective against democrats if those restrictions are lifted in the next few months?
reporter: that s whfor the o site testing. there s the search for the at-home rapid test kits. miami/dade distributed 152,000 test kits. they have put another request in for more. people are scrambling for those test kits. leyla santiago, thanks. joining me is dr. jha. great to see you. appreciate your expertise. this is troubling news. the u.s.i hitting a record numbr of average cases. the next month will be dire when it comes to the new infections, particularly for the unvaccinated who have been warned time and again to get vaccinated. what should we be bracing for?
supposed to wait a couple of days before you can safely work. it s not a direct we re being technical issues with the audio. we want to go to the other side of the country, sam brock in miami. daily cases in florida there five times higher than two weeks ago. the curve there looks vertical. it s not really even a curve. it s like a line. now the miami dade mayor is taking new measures to combat covid. what s changing there? what are you seeing and hearing on this holiday? that s right. what we ve seen in terms of the increase of infections is remarkable. 420% in two weeks. part of that equation is this. we ve been talking about it all week. all the people that are coming in right now to get tested.
only 6 million who have been vaccinated. they don t want to put everybody together. here is one couple i spoke with a few minutes ago. we will have 12 people. we have a little baby grandson. we have to take care of him. the virus is still out there. i don t want to get sick. i don t want anyone in my family to catch it. that s why you canceled christmas? yes. reporter: hallie, florida does get a bad wrap. everybody i talked with today has received their booster shot and here s the bottom line. 63% of eligible floridians are vaccinated. that s 80% in miami dade. what percentage received boosters? less than 20%. that s the key figure right now. not just in this state, but southeast and large chunks of the country that president biden is speaking to ahead of the