support. we ve been in court twice with the governor so far this year. we ve won both times at the district court level. the supreme court hasn t ruled on the merits yet and there s some uncertainty there, but regardless, it s important that we take a strong stance and so that the messaging and the communication is just unequivocal to the community and the community is doing everything that we can do to keep the kids safe. and texas is, as you know better than we do, one of the four states getting hit the hardest by the most recent wave on the delta variant cases. they re 50% of those eligible to be vaccinated. how do you get more shots in arms? what are you doing that s different? at this point we re literally going door to door to make the shots available to people to make it as easy as we can. we re trying to get out the information that the vaccines are safe and effective and billions of people have taken it at this point. we re telling people that sharing with them what s happ
they ve already seen 50 positive cases among students and staff and 194 in quarantine, but andrea, despite these numbers, there is no mask mandate in place and no social distancing requirements and no strict protocols around quarantining kids who have been exposed at school and this school district and the majority of districts in this area and health workers are seeing these trends and they re terrified of what s coming to these hospitals in the coming weeks as the kids get deeper into the school year. i spoke to the ceo of ballad health s children s hospital. take a listen to what she had to say. think the hardest part for me personally is trying to get people to understand. i stood in the pediatric intensive care unit last week and watched everything that was unfolding and it was just heartbreaking. i mean, it was just heartbreaking to see.
a dallas district judge has granted its county a temporary authority to defy the governor s order and allow mask mandate on campuses and what could this mean for students with covid cases and hospitalizations? i think it means that we aren t going to completely follow the data and the doctors which is really good news. the cdc, the american academy of pediatrics all indicate that the way to keep our children safe is for people to be masking in schools and we re going to do, everything we can with our resources to keep our community and children safe. do you think you can resist the governor s order? can he override the courts and what do you see as the legal outcome there? in the city of austin we ve taken the position that the local health authority and local government officials have the power to decide what it is that happens in their local communities with community
as well as rising delta variant cases, the agency is still so severe, even as the eviction moratorium was allowed to expire today. it was only on thursday that the white house essentially said they were not going to press for further eviction moratoriums on their own, and really kicked the can to congress which was totally unprepared to pass a new bill before this weekend, so what we have been really struggling with and what renters and landlords have been struggling with, is this is not news, this has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic, and yet when the deadline actually arrived there was no plan to basically meet people in need. there are landlords, especially small landlords who have not been able to collect rent, who rely on rent for their own income, and are supposed to be made whole by the billion dollars that congress approved, but it s unclear what will happen starting monday in the weeks and months that followed. there has been focused on trying to do work that