of it. that s where springfield, missouri, is. the hospitals in green county say they re overrun now. they re at capacity already with the influx of new sick patients still steeply rising. the ceo of cox health in springfield said yesterday, quote, we are at our capacity. mercy hospital also in springfield, they ran out of ventilators this month. they had to borrow from other hospitals. they had been treating more than 130 patients every day since sunday. and i know that s an absolute value number, what does that mean? well, for context, that s more patients than they have ever treated before for covid. that s more patients than they treated daily during the big winter spike that everybody thought was the worst of it. they re treating more covid patients in springfield, missouri, now than ever have before, and hospital administrators say over the next three to four weeks they re anticipating only higher and higher numbers in terms of the new daily influx. where will those patients go?
visit petmeds.com today. president biden delivering a covid pandemic update, signs falling short of the vaccination goal. global health leaders including the president s ian cdc director warning against the delta variant of covid. and joining us is a senior scholar, grateful for your time today. looking at the case perspective, the average of new covid infections is way down. 12,000 new cases per day, half of what it was a year ago, before the summer spike and then the horrific winter spike. even though it s well down, listen to dr. walensky at the cdc saying she s worried. we do know the delta variant is now responsible for almost all, 99% of the new cases in the uk, doctor walensky is worried something like that is coming here. listen.
country are testing incentives as a means to get more shots in arms. looking at the case trend, looking right here, 24,000 new infections yesterday, way, way down, if you look at the overall trend over the last year, we are right now, about where we were, a little higher than we were last memorial day, point of caution, we had a summer spike and a winter spike, but from the 235,000 new infections to begin the year, down below, 25,000 infections right now, the trend lines in the right direction, and most people think they will stay there because of this, the rollout of vaccines, but if you look at this, the average vaccines per day, 1.7 million shots in the arms a day, right now. surpassing most other countries, even if you do it on a population basis, per capita basis but down from where the administration was before that, why so many states, cities, offering incentives now. you can get things like a fishing license in maine, knicks tickets in new york, a college
so, what was it about you guys, the nine teams in your league made it important for them to persevere. don t you think there was a lesson in that for these kids? absolutely. i think the lesson is that don t give up and try and exhaust every avenue to make it happen. and as you said, brian, that was part of the decision that we wanted to move forward withed that the numbers were low. we expected this winter spike that we are in right now. and we are in the battle against for winter sports to go off. we started winter sports yesterday. keeping an eye on those numbers. we want to make sure that we can have a successful season for them as well. brian: football, girl s volleyball, competitive cheerleading and other so-called low impact sports. congratulations. tell everyone how did you this year. we went 9-0. so undefeated in our league and we beat our rival sacred heart in the championship 1-0. brian: so you have a great memory of your senior season, correct? definitely.