His full story for the first time, im very excited to speak with him. Thats coming up in a few minutes. We start tonight with a dire story out of florida, albeit a devastatingly familiar one. We had our numbers down, we were all excited. We were very busy and a lot of patients have been waiting and are now starting to come. In the Delta Variant then came, and in just a very short time just a few weeks it shot up from 3 30 something, patients. It feels like it was overnight. These patients are different and they are sick they are young they get sick fast and it used to be that we would come in and they would take four weeks before his lungs would teary rate if he was gonna be one of those patients that didnt do well on a band now ive got patients deteriorating in 1 to 2 weeks i have no lost a pregnant fiancee, i had a 23yearold that we referred for transplant. These are sick people and the most frustrating an amazing part of this is not one of them needed to be here. Not one of them nee
And the Delta Variant is tightening the grip on the nation driving up Covid Cases and hospital admissions. The u. S. Has now recorded over 35 Million cases and averaging about 70,000 cases a day. Late this afternoon, the Cdc Director revealed new data on the dangers of this hyper contagious delta strain. If you are sick with the Delta Variant, we estimate that you can infect five other vaccinated people. More than twice as many as the original strain. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found five states represent 46 of new u. S. Covid cases. Earlier today, officials in louisiana offered a grim assessment of the situation. That state is set to break its alltime record for covid hospitalizations. Nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that its just another surge. Weve had three of them. This is the worst we have had thus far. The Delta Variant of covid is every infectious Disease Specialist and epidemiologist worst nightmare. As Health Officials have repeatedly war
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