so, if we have a larger number of people getting infected but the degree of severity is very, very low, that would be very important. and if you just count the numbers of infections, you may get a misrepresentation as to what is actually going on. so, severity of cases is what to keep our eyes on now. does another top pandemic worrier agree? joining me is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. welcome back to cnn tonight, doctor. with regard to that kaiser data, what makes us think people who won t get vaxed are suddenly going to request a free test? first of all, thanks for having me back. this is a real challenge because the people who are not getting vaccinated, in many ways they ve sort of been poisoned with misinformation. so, the question is what s going to motivate them to get tested? obviously if places require a negative test, that s going to do it.
what makes us think people who won t get vaxed are suddenly going to request a free test? first of all, thanks for having me back. this is a real challenge because the people who are not getting vaccinated, in many ways they ve sort of been poisoned with misinformation. so, the question is what s going to motivate them to get tested? obviously if places require a negative test, that s going to do it. safety is motivating those people to get vaccinated to the extent they have, which is requirements they have from workplaces, requirements from restaurants and other places they want to go to. at this point that s going to be the major driver for testing and vaccinations for that population. i m not faulting the message of the president today, but that expression of preaching to the choir just seems appropriate. i feel that the sort of people tuned into a program like this right now are nodding their heads in agreement and probably the sort of folks who paid attention to the president
delta variant is specially high if these 12 states right here on the screen. they haven t even gotten to a 40% vaccination rate. alabama, georgia, idaho, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, west virginia, and wyoming. let s take closer look at arkansas. only about 35% of eligible people are fully vaccinated. in the past week alone, there were more than 7,000 new cases. one doctor puts in it stark terms. the hospital is full. covid-19 numbers increase every day. we are stopping patients in the recovery room. no space for transfers. running out of caregivers. support health care workers. mask up. get vaxed. that position, dr. have the doctor joins me hive from little rock. dr. patterson, thank you for joining us. your tweet from yesterday paints a grim picture, a picture we saw in the early days of the