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Fought against mask mandates now pleading for outside help, doctors and nurses to help with the situation in texas text. and tonight, a new announcement from that governor, so, let s get right to marcus moore, he s live in houston for us. marcus, what have you learned? reporter: well, david, texas governor greg abbott has just announc announced the deployment of 2,500 medical personnel to help hospitals across the state. and those hospitals right now are in dire need. here at lbj hospital in houston, they ve set up overflow tents and the covid cases at emergency departments here in texas have been skyrocketing. more than 1,500 covid patients were admitted across the country to the e.r. just yesterday. and that has caused a grid lock at many of the locations. and officials tell me that right now, nearly 600 people are waiting for beds. and more than 100 of them have covid. and david, in a sobering moment, an official told me today that some people are dying waiting for beds. right now ....
A cdc advisory panel will then meet on friday with possible action expected from the cdc director soon after. it comes amid a growing emergency across much of the south. tonight, inside this icu in gainesville, florida, they re overwhelmed. teams trying to make room for a crush of new covid cases while trying to keep the patients they already have alive. what does that mean? that s a code. reporter: what s happening now? that s a patient who is unstable right now, either no blood pressure or oxygen nation is bad or heart rate just went to zero. reporter: how often does that happen per day? almost every day. this hospital is seeing younger patients getting sicker faster. nearly all unvaccinated. this is the second major surge. this surge is actually much bigger than anything that we ve seen before. reporter: 38-year-old ian woods has been in the hospital with covid for more than a week and says he was waiting to get vaccinated. any message you might have to people who like ....
Wednesday night. and we begin tonight with that breaking headline. abc news confirming that the fda is now expected to authorize a booster shot, a third shot for immu immunocompromised people in this country, within 48 hours. the cdc will meet on this. then the cdc director expected to u.s. the u.s. is now averaging more than 110,000 new covid cases a day. the most since february. of course, fueled by this delta variant. hospitals across the south tonight reporting they re at a breaking point. more than 75,000 covid patients hospitalized nationwide, roughly 9,300 new hospitalizations a day. tonight, a major hospital in houston putting up these outdoor tents to treat an overflow of patients. dozens of hospitals in the state reporting few if any icu beds remaining. and the governor of texas, who has railed against mask mandates now pleading for outside help, doctors, nurses. and what the governor has just announced there. tonight, mississippi requesting help from the u.s. navy hospital ....
Staff must get vaccinated or be tested for covid weekly. we will be here every weekday at 3:00 on air and on livestream answering your strings. see you tonight, the breaking news as we come on the air. abc news now confirming the fda is now expected to authorize booster shots, a third shot, for immunocompromised people within 48 hours. tonight, the new reporting here on how quickly this could happen, this booster, for some who have already been vaccinated. and it comes amid a horrific surge in covid cases across much of the south. we re inside hospitals tonight at a breaking point. the u.s. now averaging more than 110,000 new cases a day. our team inside one icu when the alarm sounds. tonight, the breaking headline from texas, what the governor there has just revealed amid the worsening situation in that state, as they now see more than 10,000 new cases a day. ....
Vaccinated by september 7. any employee who is not must test weekly. a full return to in person learning is set for monday. coven hospitalizations increase across the country and california as well. numbers released today show patients. the seven-day positivity rate is 6.2%. while sfu st has instituted insd requirements, parents have concerns about sending their kids back to classrooms. they want more distanced learning options. francisco unified school district employees will be required to be fully vaccinated. any employee not yet vaccinated will be mandated to test for covid weekly. the united educators of san francisco supports the decision. we see the variant surging. because educators care for ....