As COVID cases surge, unvaccinated patients urge others to get the shot

COVID infection rates are surging in every state, and experts say the upward trend is being fueled by the Delta variant – and by unvaccinated Americans. As of last week, more than 97 percent of people admitted to a hospital for COVID had not gotten the vaccine.

New projections show COVID cases nationwide will likely continue to rise over the next few months, peaking in mid-October. Daily deaths could more than triple from current levels, rising back up to around 850 a day. At St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi – the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the country – the hospital's director of medicine told "CBS This Morning" it's getting scary as COVID cases surge. They've stopped allowing visitors (only Facetime visits now), and they're on the verge of canceling non-emergency surgeries.