The Senate passed President Biden's $1.2 trillion

dollar infrastructure bill with bipartisan support.

That's good news.

That's positive.

That's right.

A trillion dollars to fix our roads, bridges, and airports.

So after they finish LaGuardia, that'll leave us with about 40 bucks.

Well, good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It's Wednesday, August 11th.

Mika has some morning off, of course. Another quick track to the south of France, Willie.

Yeah, glad she's getting some time away. We got a lot to talk about this morning, Joe. We begin

with the latest developments with COVID cases, hospitalizations, deaths still on the rise,

especially in parts of the country with lower vaccination rates, as we've been telling you for

some time. NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky has the latest. Delta driving COVID cases to dangerous highs. The variant now tied to 93%

of U.S. infections. The biggest spikes coming in Texas, Missouri, Florida, and Arkansas, where

Monday brought its largest single-day increase in hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic.

Patients flowing into Arkansas hospitals at double the

national rate. It's worse than any of the prior surges for a whole host of reasons. With only eight

ICU beds left in the entire state, Dr. Rolsa Paul says his hospital is seeing an increase in younger

patients. Young healthy people should not be dying from a viral illness, period.

They shouldn't be dying from COVID-19.

But because this particular variant is so severe, virulent, and replicates very, very quickly,

we're seeing pretty rapid changes to the health of individuals

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