11% to 12%. south carolina senator lindsey graham was shouted down by his republican constituents at a saturday event in summerville for suggesting that they get vaccinated against the coronavirus. you have to have a vaccine or think about getting it no! i didn t pay to get it. think about it. well, 92% of the people in hospitals in south carolina are unvaccinated. graham who was vaccinated and suffered a breakthrough virus in the summer credited the vaccine. and he talked to the crowd adding that republicans had to take back congress to stop it. a deeply depressing scene. the crisis is going more dire in alaska. the delta variant is feeling the current new surge in cases which has far outpaced last year s
what s the axios one big thing for this morning? today s one big thing is a new capitol alarm. house speaker nancy pelosi is getting to ponder whether to extend some of the covid rules and covid plans that were put in at the start of the pandemic on how the house operates. a key one is proxy voting. that allows members of the house to vote remotely not having to be physically in the chamber, that was at the start of the pandemic to space out members, to allow members who were possibly quarantining to not have to travel to washington, allow older members who were afraid of being in crowds to not show up in the chamber to vote. that s something that republicans had opposed. this is because of a rise of infections in the delta variant variant in the house, nancy pelosi looks to be pushing forward. there have been vaccinated members, including in nancy pelosi s office, that have had the breakthrough virus.