Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are among the worst to be hit by the variant, with low vaccination rates seen as a driver of the latest surge. So far, only 39 percent of people in AL have received both doses of a vaccine, compared to 68 percent in Vermont.
The U.S. continues to average over 100,000 new COVID cases each day - most of them the Delta variant - and is averaging over 1,300 deaths.
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According to The New York Times COVID-19 tracker, Florida—the third largest state by population—has a death rate of 1.56 per 100,000 people over the last seven days.
Florida has averaged 15,462 new daily cases over the past week, a rate of 72 per 100,000.
The plans include asking the “public and private sectors to help” but no more details are being released until tomorrow, Newsweek understands.
WIAT, a local CBS affiliate, reports that more than two dozen nurses at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama refused to clock in for the night shift on Monday and instead gathered outside the hospital to demonstrate.
“It has been very overwhelming,” one nurse told WIAT. “We don’t feel appreciated. We want someone to come down and be willing to negotiate with us.”
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