more than the number of people who died in the civil war. america s deadliest conflict. nbc s antonio hilton is live at a vaccination site in connecticut for us today, and dr. gupta, a health and policy expert. seeing a 60% uptick in cases, hospitalizedations up there. what are state officials doing trying to respond to this reality? reporter: good morning, aaron. you know, in addition to those cases, in terms of hospitalizations, they now have 575 people state-wide hospitalized. that represents more than three time what s they were looking at just a couple weeks ago. so officials are scrambling now 20 get this under control to get a message of precaution out there as we get closer and closer to christmas and new year s and well aware people are going to spend much more time inside. already they think that this spike is dupe to the level of time that people are spending indoors with loved ones. uptick in travel we saw around