Growing evidence the country is facing some hard weeks ahead

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams joins Anderson to talk about the latest with Covid, vaccines and the Delta variant surge. The White House is saying tonight it tried but could not find a legal justification for extending the federal eviction moratorium but said it isn't giving up. Several progressive members of Congress have been camped out on the steps of the Capitol since Friday, trying to bring attention to the problem. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, talks with Anderson about the millions who could lose their homes. Plus, CNN's Matt Rivers talks with the widow of Haiti's slain president and she shares what she experienced that horrible night. Airdate: August 2, 2021 Guests: Dr. Jerome Adams Sen. Chris Murphy Rep. Hakeem Jeffries To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. We begin tonight with COVID and growing evidence. The country is facing some
0:04.4	hard weeks ahead. At the same time, thankfully, there are signs pointing in the opposite direction,
0:08.8	but not enough, at least not yet, to change the course that we're on. So, at the end of another
0:13.2	Good News bad news day, in the beginning of what it looks to be another Good News bad news week,
0:17.7	there's a lot to get to. Here's the Chief Medical Officer for our Lady of the Lake Medical Center
0:22.2	in Baden Rouge, Louisiana, where they've run out of beds in the intensive care unit,
0:26.8	and 23 patients are waiting in the ER. There are no more beds left. Those 23 patients are a glimpse
0:35.7	of what we have been doing for the last two weeks while we have been trying to get everybody vaccinated.
0:41.9	And it's not helping enough because it's not happening fast enough. And when you come inside
0:48.6	our walls, it is quite obvious to you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic.
0:54.7	The darkest days of the pandemic there. And some of the hardest for the people in the hardest
0:59.5	hit states such as Louisiana, who staff the ICUs. I have worked in the COVID ICU pretty much the whole
1:09.2	pandemic, so you're in half two years now. And I can say today was probably one of the most
1:17.7	emotionally hard days since the pandemic started. That nurse Felicia Croft who's been working
1:27.2	since the beginning of the ICU, she joins us shortly. She says the patient she's treating in this
1:32.2	latest way every younger parents this time, not just grandparents, and the Delta variant is now
1:36.5	sending kids to the hospital. Listen to the Chief Clinical Officer for the Arkansas Children's Health System.
1:41.8	Throughout the previous months of the pandemic, we would have, you know, zero to maybe three children
1:49.5	admitted to the hospital that tested positive for COVID and they were off it in for some other reason.
1:54.7	They weren't showing symptoms of the COVID infection. Today we have 24 children in the hospital
2:01.2	with COVID infections. They're all symptomatic with COVID. And eight of those are intensive care
2:06.9	and five requiring mechanical ventilation to breathe. This is scary. Eight kids in the ICU,
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