announcement earlier today. this among troubling covid numbers. hospitalizations across the country at their highest level since back in february. and nine of every ten americans, nine in ten live somewhere where the cdc says you should mask up even when you go indoors. especially when you go indoors. let s look at this as the cases right now. if you look at the cases, cases up 50% from last week. above 80,000 new infections a day. not since february. not since february when we were coming down from the horrific winter peak. when you have new cases, we ve been through this, hospitalizations go up. 200% from just last month. americans in the hospital because of covid are up. we re above 50,000 in the hospital for the first time since february. and this is what i mentioned at the top. red on the map is high spread of covid. high community transmission of covid. you see substantial is the gold color. nine in ten americans are now in places where the cdc says you should think about this. y
any doses. while you can say it s just humanitarian, it s also strategic. the variants i m concerned about for our future vaccine success in this country are likely going to spin out of that uncontrolled transmission occurring in the low and middle income countries. we ve got to try to do both. we need a manhattan project for p manufacturing. we need plans to get vaccines delivered throughout the world. i want to come back to the cases here in the united states right now. what you see coming in the weeks ahead as children start to go back to school and then a couple weeks after that, it will get cooler. if you look at a month ago, 14,000 new infections. now we re back up above averaging 80,000 new infections. a year ago we were at 62,000 starting to come down from the summer peak. and then we went back up into the horrific winter peak. 165 million americans have been vaccinated since this. so no one can imagine going that high again. but with children going back to school, what do yo
hospitalizations in southwest missouri surpassed winter peak. a doctor rachel key who is treating s patients at the hospital saying, quote, there are so many covid patients. there are so many different units, they re everywhere. doctor keith was sir sent to springfield last week according to the people. she arrived, she said there was so little space for patients that were staying in the emergency room for long periods of time. local health officials in southwest missouri have been sounding the alarm that they are not they are at capacity, they do not have the space for the amount of space patients that is not letting up. they re asking for help, they have been asking for help for a week. remember, last wednesday, health leaders in springfield, missouri explicitly asked governor person, as the state, to set up an alternative care site in springfield to help
steep surges of covid infections in the last two weeks, they put out six new hot spots in missouri in less than two weeks. the worsist hit in the southwest corner but spreading cross the state of missouri from there. the epicenter where it started worse in the area around springfield, missouri, even as it is spreading across the state it s not letting up. green county, missouri is now recording new all-time record number of people hospitalized surpassing the winter peak. doctors in st. patrick s day mers doctors in st. mercy s hospital saying there s so many covid patients on so many units everywhere. the doctor was sent to springfield to help with the overwhelming number of patients and said, quote, there was so little space that patients were in the emergency room for long periods of time and staff had just opened covid-19 unit and discussing to open another.
number of people hospitalized surpassing the winter peak. doctors in st. patrick s day mers ctors in st. patrick s day mers doctors in st. mercy s hospital saying there s so many covid patients on so many units everywhere. the doctor was sent to springfield to help with the overwhelming number of patients and said, quote, there was so little space that patients were in the emergency room for long periods of time and staff had just opened covid-19 unit and discussing to open nerj. officials are sounding at alarm about the fact they don t have capacity for the growing number of patients that s not letting up. they ve covered this about a week now. last wednesday hospitals and