heart attacks at home, but we can control who has surgery, for example. we re having a scaleback on surgeries that people really need but we just can t contact date. look, i think everybody knows there s a scientific science here. that s right. maybe not getting covid but getting hospitalized. alabama s hospitalization rate is one of the lower rates. what are you seeing, when patients come in, what s the vaccination level of those you see? far and wide, the patients are unvaccinated that are significantly sick. and the patients that are vaccinated that are coming to the hospital are the people that are vulnerable. those are people that have abnormal immune systems. those are the people that we should be trying to protect. i think, you know, our vaccination rate has climbed slightly. it s up to 37.6% but that is not enough. on top of that, not only do we have enough team getting vaccinated, we don t have enough people following the common sense public guidelineses that we know w
kids here, andrea. kerry, we will fact check with doctors about what the governor had to say about children in school in just a few moments and thank you so much for starting us off. dasha, tennessee lagging below a 40% vaccination level after firing the head of the state s health department and in neighboring kentucky, we are seeing the governor being proactive and instituting a mask mandate for his state schools. so what are you seeing in tennessee today? reporter: andrea, i m in the appalachian highlands and they re telling us what they re seeing among kids is unprecedented. the hospital system in this region said that yesterday 29% of positive tests in their system were among those under the age of 18 and here in washington county, schools came back just over a week ago.
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put in place mandates. we have to remember right now we have three different kinds of people out there with regard to vaccine. there are those that i call vaccine affirmative. they re the people in minnesota that drove 125 miles through snowstorms in february to find a clinic they could get vaccinated in. we don t have to worry about those people. then we have the vaccine hesitant, people with legitimate concerns. a pregnant woman, is it safe for me to get the vaccine, i m a black man, i ve been experimented on a lot. and then there s the vaccine hostile. it s what we ve heard about in so many locations where they just don t believe covid is real or the facts are not true. the mandate will help us clearly only get at basically those who are hesitant if they have exemptions. in our state, unfortunately, you can get exempted out of mandates. so what we need is a uniform set of mandates around the country where people have to comply and then i think we have a real opportunity at that poin
we know there s cases and exposures in the unvaccinated population. the cdc guidance says people have to quarantine. instead of having a whole classroom, let s minimize the exposures by using masks. we know we can use other measures separating deaths, trying to cohort students and being more meticulous when it comes to extra curricular activities. so i think this is something that you ll see variations depending on what s going on locally. what are the level of cases and what is the vaccination level at the school. i think that you need flexibility for the schools to operate. neil: doctor, an interesting developments. i don t like to throw things at you but we re learning that the red sox and yankees game was postponed after multiple positive covid-19 tests within the yankees organization.