It's Monday, May 24th. I'm Kila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what the day where we just want to say preemptively,

we're not looking to hire Rick Santor. I'm now that he's off CNN.

Yeah, we don't have any need to rehab Republicans and say racist things.

You know, we don't need a quota. We don't have any part of that.

Mm-hmm. That is not the side of both sides that I'm interested in quite frankly.

That's right.

On today's show, Adelec It's Seas Fire continues in Israel and Palestine,

plus we'll have headlines. But first, the latest.

The bottom line is that the people who are getting infected now tend to be people who are younger,

less vulnerable to the infection because a lot of the vulnerable population has been vaccinated.

About 85% of those above the age of 65 have now been vaccinated. So the people most likely to get

into trouble with COVID have now been protected through vaccination. And you're seeing a rapidly

declining rate of new hospitalizations as a consequence of that fact.

So that's former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday.

And like he's saying there, for the US this summer is starting to look bright.

Coronavirus infection rates have dropped below 30,000 each day. That is the lowest since June of

last year in addition to the declining hospitalization rates. But to keep that positive progress going,

it is all about vaccinations. So Akilah, where does that actually stand?

Well, vaccination rates vary widely depending on where you look on a map. So for example,

if we're looking at the Northeast part of the US and many of those states, more than 60% of adults

have had at least their first jab. But if you look at the South, for example, many of those states

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