Has become. And going home with gold. The olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. How american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. Im Phil Mattingly in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Right now, the Covid Pandemic is surging in the u. S. And shows no signs of slowing down. To know how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. The average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july, the Delta Variant fuelling this rise in cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. Hospital even more troubling is how this variant is affecting children. Childhood and teen cases have jumped 84 in the past week. Despite those numbers, only half of the country is vaccinated. Health officials say the drive is because of the unvaccinated which make up most of the hospitalizations and deaths were seeing now. We would not be in the place we are in right now with this Delta Surge if we had been more effective in getting everybody to take advantage of these imnai
And right now, it shows no signs of slowing down. To really get a sense of how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. The average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july. The deadly Delta Variant fuelling the rapid rise in those cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. Hospitalizations are currently the highest weve seen since february. Even more troubling, just how this new variant is affecting children. Child and Teen Covid cases have jumped 84 in just the last week. Now despite those numbers, only half of the country is fully vaccinated. Some Health Officials say it may soon be time to mandate vaccinations for Healthcare Workers. Its inexplicable to me. Youre a healthcare worker. Your profession. The thing youve devoted your life to is to protect people. To make them well. To protect them from disease. Im very much in favor of mandating, if you want to see patients and you want to participate in healthcare, you need to get vaccinated. Period.
And if theres one place that needs extra attention right now, its florida. Over the last week, more than 134,000 people there tested positive for covid. To put this into perspective, the u. S. Was seeing sevenday averages close to this in late may and early june, so a single state is now seeing as many cases per week as the entire country was just two short months ago, and yet florida governor Ron Desantis is facing a countrysized case count, he is playing politics despite the Fact Florida leads the country in the number of children hospitalized for covid19. He is banning Mask Mandates is schools and refusing to put in Place Mitigation measures really anywhere in the state. Lets go to orlando, florida, and natasha chen. Natasha, give us the latest here on floridas covid situation. It is just going downhill quickly. Reporter yeah, jim. The Health Officials are doing everything they can. Were at the mexican consulate in Downtown Orlando where they vaccinated about 20 people today. Earlie
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