coronavirus pandemic. the biden administration just announced that states with the highest rate of covid cases are seeing vaccinations more than double, and although it s nearly a month late, the u.s. has now reached president biden s goal of partially vaccinating 70% of american adults. but, there is still cause for concern, look at this, the number of new covid cases is higher now, than during last summer s peak. and weekly hospital admissions up more than 40% mostly because of that delta variant. the c.d.c. director explains the mutation this way: it can infect twice as many people as the original strain of covid. and it is hitting a handful of states especially hard including florida, texas and missouri. so there s a lot of new reporting to get to tonight. we begin with cbs mireya villarreal in missouri where cases have tripled in the last month. good evening, mireya. reporter: good evening, norah. here in cox health in springfield they ve brought in a new morgue and doubled oxy
a rise in covid cases and in covid deaths. right now they have 187 patients inside the hospital, the most they ve ever had since the start of the pandemic. tonight, covid cases are skyrocketing in missouri with healthcare workers bearing the brunt. many nurses say every night they go home and they re crying. reporter: average daily cases tripled in the last month while hospitalizations have nearly doubled and the hardest hit area, includes springfield,thise where this chart shows the dramatic rise of covid patients in one hospital system, since mask mandates were lifted and then two big holiday weekends. we re very concerned at this point because, we are headed back into school and we have seen disease spreading in our kids who are not vaccinated and don t have the option to be vaccined rep ar missouri, they re w four othg florida where things are the worse they ve ever been, more than 10,000 are now hospitalized, and there are more than 21,000 new cases.
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