According to the CDC, 46% of Texans have been fully vaccinated.
The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads.
More than 620,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and over 4.3 million people have died worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Just 59.1% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Canadian government will soon mandate vaccinations for commercial plane travelers, cruise ship passengers and people on trains between provinces, according to The Associated Press.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said this will go into effect “as soon as possible in the fall and no later than the end of October," according to the AP.
Hard-hit Louisiana has 2,907 COVID-19 patients in hospitals -- more than any point of the pandemic so far, the state's Department of Health said Friday.
Louisiana's Ochsner Health said they have 1,063 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in their system, exceeding all previous surges. Of those patients, 88.99% are unvaccinated, officials said.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said 399 patients in the state are on ventilators.
Fifty-seven people died of COVID-19 in Louisiana in the last 24 hours, the health department said.
The governor warned Friday that Louisiana isn't near the peak of this surge and hospital leaders are more alarmed now than at any point in the pandemic.
"We are really close to the breaking point," Edwards said.
Federal officials are deploying extra resources to COVID-19 hot spots, including sending five "fatality management trailers" to Texas, according to a federal planning document obtained by ABC News.
Oklahoma was set to receive 100 ventilators on Thursday, according to the planning document, while Mississippi has requested enough medical personnel to staff more than 1,000 beds.
Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, is requiring all employees to be vaccinated.
Seventy-eight percent of district employees were already fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated or had a vaccination scheduled as of June, the district said.
"For the social and emotional well-being of our young people, they need to be in school, and the vaccine adds another layer of protection to our plan to safely re-open schools," the city's department of public health commissioner, Allison Arwady, said in a statement.
Chicago's school year starts on Aug. 30.
-ABC News' Whitney Lloyd
