others view the shot s safety. the vaccine is currently authorized for emergency use. health experts are hoping full authorization will lead more people to get vaccinated. all of those people who said they ve been waiting for full approval, i hope, i hope you go to vaccines.gov this weekend and make your appointment for next week, because again, it s coming. what you asked for is coming. so despite a recent uptick in vaccinations, roughly 30% of eligible americans have yet to even get their first shot. cases and hospitalizations continue to soar across the u.s., and that s really causing intensive care units to run out of space. there is miguel marquez now reports. more than one million vaccines reported by the cdc went into arms thursday, the most in weeks. but the delta variant hasn t slowed down yet. from the bottom of my heart, we as the medical community are completely exhausted. reporter: nationwide deaths
greece, the refugee camp there has been full of asylum seekers yet to be processed. that have been there for years. a lot of pressure there on the government not to take in any refugees. greece has been criticized for pushing back at times violently, migrants and refugees headed there, something they continue to deny. so, we have heard from greek officials saying they re not going to sit there possibly and wait for this crisis to happen. they have completed that border wall with turkey that they have been working on, a 40-kilometer, 25-mile wall that has been set up, completed, ready to deal with whatever might happen. same thing when it comes to turkey. you know, this is a country that is helping more refugees than any other country in the world. about 4 million. most of them syrian refugees. and also, kim, we ve heard from the turkish government over 14
safety. the vaccine currently is authorized for emergency use. the experts hope full authorization will lead to more people getting vaccinated. now, despite a recent uptick in vaccinations, roughly 30% of eligible americans have yet to get even their first shot. cases and hospitalizations continue to soar across the u.s. and that s causing intensive care units to run out of space. cnn s miguel marquez has that story. reporter: more than 1 million vaccines reported by the cdc went into arms thursday, the most in weeks. but the delta variant hasn t slowed down yet. from the bottom of my heart, we as a medical team are completely exhausted. reporter: nationwide deaths up 62%, most unvaccinated, on a seven-day average. 862 americans now dying every day on average from vid. more than 93,000 americans now in hospitals, numbers climbing