and now, vaccine hesitancy is meeting covid reality. did you get to a point when you were scared? i m still scared. reporter: p.j. perry says he and most of his family had refused to get the covid vaccine. where have you gotten most of your news from, regarding the vaccine? saw it on facebook, and you know, people saying stuff. reporter: now, this 48-year- old father says as soon as he leaves this hospital, he is getting vaccinated. i don t care if anybody is mad at me, they say i don t want to take it. i don t care anymore. i don t want to feel like this. reporter: across this country, 100 million people remain unvaccinated, including some health care workers. today, the mayor of new york city said anyone working in a public hospital or clinic must get vaccinated, or get weekly testing. this is about keeping people safe and stopping the delta variant. reporter: in louisiana. we need to be patient- centered, and that requires us as health care professionals to take
life expectancy in the u.s. has taken its most severe drop in more than seven decades. and the hardest hit? hispanic and black americans. cbs s david begnaud leads off our coverage tonight from louisiana, where covid wards are packed with patients. good evening, david. reporter: good evening, norah. experts say that delta variant has a viral load that is 1,000 times higher than the original coronavirus strain. one of the experts here in baton rouge said it appears as though the delta variant turns off your immune system for just a little bit, allowing that virus to multiply inside of you even before antibodies can start being developed. tonight, hospitals in louisiana are filling up, and dr. catherine o neal is fed up. are we about to be a community on fire? i think we already are. reporter: louisiana has just reported more than 5,000 covid infections. that is the worst since the winter surge. hospitalizations have more than tripled. i can t believe we admitted a whole floor of
this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. tonight, for the first time in months, the c.d.c. is predicting that the rate of covid deaths in the u.s. will rise well into august. across the country, the average daily number of new infections have more than tripled in a month. that s right. and there s this nearly one in three u.s. counties are experiencing a rapid spread of the virus. this summer surge is driven by that highly contagious delta variant. and tonight, we re learning more about exactly how powerful that mutant strain is. so, we ve got more on that in a moment. the troubling uptick in cases led new york city s mayor to announce a mandate for new yorkers who work in a health care setting. and, there s also alarming new information tonight on the toll that the pandemic is taking on american lives.
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cbs jericka duncan will lead off reporting from tennessee, where the head of that state s vaccine program was just fired. good evening, jericka. reporter: good evening to you, norah. i spoke to the former medical director of the immunizations program tonight, here at the tennessee department of health. she called this environment where she used to work toxic and says she stands by her decision to advocate that more children be vaccinated. new data tonight shows the dangerous delta variant is continuing to spread at an alarming rate, presenting a serious risk to the unvaccinated. because, that is what we expected. that the peak of this epidemic would really be sometime around the end of september, back to school season. unfortunately the worst is yet to come. reporter: new cases in every state except arizona and south dakota are up at least 10%. in 32 states, they are up 50% or more. and now the focus is turning to young people, just a quarter of