first major u.s. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after reporting this sharp rise in covid infections. and we re also seeing this rise in cases in other parts of the country. so could more mask mandates be put in place or would perhaps hospitalizations be a better metric than cases going forward? wow. you nailed it with that. there is already a court challenge and there s going to be arguments because you know, the cdc changed to that, you know, green, yellow, red guideline, which focuses on hospitalizations. i really think there will be patchy at best mask mandates across the country. i do believe we will probably see a preference where we have a red and blue divide where i think it s going to be hard pressed for states with election year coming up to be pressing a mask mandate regardless of how high the disease goes in some of those states.
testing center that served as a reminder of the pandemic s toll on los angeles, now preparing to open at full capacity. and guys, despite all of that encouraging news, there is still some concern when it comes to the daily vaccination rate. a fact, the daily rate has dropped 100 and 50% since april. now, some states like massachusetts and new hampshire have reached 70% of all adults vaccinated. but in alabama, we saw a rise in covid cases this week. the vaccination rate is only 28%. lindsey and kendis. so much blaine. that really is a concern where we have many states and it s almost like a red and blue divide. you have many states, california 54%. people with at least one shot. but you have states like many of the southern states where it s really needed that, have fully reopened at 28% right now. yes because polls are showing there is a political divide, in fact, not just anecdotally. the data shows it too.