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. >> joining us now to discuss the rise in infections in florida and texas, miami mayor, francis suarezand the latest on the situation in miami. what you are hearing from providers on how the health care system is holding up and what worries you most about the new surge in cases? >> well, what worries me is all the different matrix are up, the hospitalizations are up and new cases are up and the positivity, which is the other metric we look at, are up. the good news is we are having a very high vaccination percentage in our population. most vulnerable, 65 and older, have received one dose. 99%. and the second dose, 84%. so it's extremely high. if they are 18 and older fully vaccinate is almost 75%. 88% with one dose. i think, you know, the message is resonating that the best defense right now that anybody could have is to get vaccinated, and the statistics on the vaccination are demonstrating that this is right now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and 99% of people that are vaccinated are not feeling serious complications. >> this question, mayor, of how to get people vaccinated and unva

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joining me now to discuss it, francis suarez, mayor of miami. mr. mayor, thank you for taking time.first let's talk about the situation with covid cases. you're somewhere just shy of a positivity rate of 19% how are things going there? who is most impacted? >> well, many people are being impacted. we've, unfortunately, had records over the last few days. we've had a couple of highs for florida. i'm actually in a to covid hospital right now visiting a 40-year-old who's in icu, so it's impacting people that are my age, it's impacting children because more children are hospitalized than before, significantly more. and so, you know, this is a difficult time where we're now have to make sure that we're doing everything that we can and getting vaccinated. you know, 99% of the people that are vaccinated are not experiencing serious complications, and 90% of the people that are hospitalized are not vaccinated. so it's clearly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. griff: and, mr. mayor, are you seeing the debate over whether to get vaccinated, those that are hesitant, and the mask mandates possibl

so i think of the mayor of miami, francis suarez, who's also a republican, i spoke to him and earlieruded governor desantis for the way he handled parts of the pandemic. now he is standing up against him saying we may need to mandate masks in schools, as you said pushback from superintendents across the state of florida. the superintendent of miami-dade saying at no point should i allow my decision be on the threat of my paycheck. i heard it from superintendents in phoenix. and the line over and over again. i think we'll hear it the next several weeks and as we head into 2022. this isn't about politics. this is about the health and safety of our students, of our workers, and of our community. and local leaders are so desperate, mika, to take politics out of the equation and it keeps being injected over and over again by some of the leaders at the state level. >> we're hearing that in dallas, too. the superintendent saying the same thing. this is not a far-off question. school started in a swath of the country this week, this is happening right now in schools. so much of it is pushed t