and that s why we are here. and here, in terms of the statistics, here s where we are. we re at more than 64,000 new cases, just today. that puts us back a year, literally, one year ago, on this day, that s where we were. why? the vaccine. i ll make this point clearly and in two different ways. you find low-vaccination rates in this country, you find cases. specifically, in the southeast. arkansas, louisiana, tennessee, mississippi, alabama, georgia. florida alone, now big state, number-three state, right? makes up a huge chunk of the new cases. they have been in the top five for new cases, going back to april. now, if you look, you will see that there s some toxic politics that have gone along with that. don t fauci florida and all this other stuff. and now he s anti-mask down there, the governor. i get the political play. it works with the trump fold but it s making people sick. you could say that, look, they have a big population. okay? so they re going to have bigger numbers. but t
literally, one year ago, on this day, that s where we were. why? the vaccine. i ll make this point, clearly, and in two different ways. you find low-vaccination rates in this country, you find cases. specifically, in the southeast. arkansas, louisiana, tennessee, mississippi, alabama, georgia. florida, alone, now, big state, number-three state, right? makes up a huge chunk of the new cases. they have been in the top five for new cases, going back to april. now, if you look, you will see that there s some toxic politics that go along with that. don t fauci florida and all this other stuff. and now, he is anti-masks down there, the governor. i get the political play. it works with the trump fold but it s making people sick. you could say that, look. they have a big population. okay? so they re going to have bigger numbers. but the positivity is way outpacing the rest of the country. okay? which is why they have more people in the hospital, than they did at any time this year. it s a scen
like every other human being and i hope he does the right thing by his people. tell me why cases there have more than tripled in the last two weeks. why is florida the epicenter right now? they ve got money. they ve got means. they ve got leadership. where is desantis on this? where is he with his don t fauci florida? how did that work out? why do we keep hearing about the cases in that state from the cdc and not from him and other state officials daily? why report weekly? this is the reality and i don t care about the politics. the only politics that can matter is what gets us to a better place. it s got to be about conversations. i know how you feel. i don t want to hear from any trump people. i don t want to have them on. don t give them a platform to lie. i don t give anybody a platform to lie. all right? we will test people on this show and we always have as well or better than any other. that is what we do. it s never been needed more than now. i m not going to close off
community transmission. you don t like desantis. i don t know desantis. i invite him on the show all the time to make the case for this. i wish him and his family well like every other human being and i hope he does the right thing by his people. tell me why cases there have more than tripled in the last two weeks. why is florida the epicenter right now? they ve got money. they ve got means. they ve got leadership. where is desantis on this? where is he with his don t fauci florida? how did that work out? why do we keep hearing about the cases in that state from the cdc and not from him and other state officials daily? why report weekly? this is the reality and i don t care about the politics. the only politics that can matter is what gets us to a better place. it s got to be about conversations. i know how you feel. i don t want to hear from any trump people. i don t want to have them on. don t give them a platform to lie.
which is the most important thing that senior citizens in florida by and large have been vaccinated and have full access to getting vaccines. you know that is not the end of the story. look, i get why you say it. it is certainly important from a leithality standpoint. nobody is as vulnerable to die as the elderly, so good. you know that is not the full story. there is a politicizing of this, yes, you re right. certain ethnic minorities don t. why? you have access and you also have generations of distrust for different reasons about what s happened with the government interplay in their lives before true or not true but i m talking about something else. the reason has to be, part of the reason that you re seeing what you re seeing in florida is because the vaccine hesitancy and an aspect of vaccine hesitancy is politics especially in your state. don t fauci florida. do you feel responsible for spreading a message where i m not going to take it because i don t care what biden wants. by