Jesse Jackson, wife hospitalized with COVID-19
The civil rights pioneer was vaccinated in January.
The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads.
More than 628,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Just 59.9% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Texas governor tests positive
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced.
The governor is fully vaccinated and has no symptoms, his office said, adding that he's been tested daily.
Abbott is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment, his office said.
"Everyone that the Governor has been in close contact with today has been notified," his office said.
Abbott has banned mask and vaccination mandates in Texas.
According to The Houston Chronicle, the governor gave a speech Monday night to a crowd of about 600 people where there was little social distancing or mask-wearing.
Hospitalizations could reach 32,800 per day by Sept. 1: Forecast
The U.S. could see as many as 32,800 hospitalizations per day by Sept. 13, according to the COVID-19 Forecast Hub at U Mass Amherst, which is used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The low end of the forecast is 9,000 per day.
Currently, more than 11,249 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 each day in the U.S., up from a daily average of 8,300 last week.
These forecasts suggest Florida, Louisiana and Texas hospitalizations may improve in coming weeks while other states, like California and New York, may see more hospitalizations.
-ABC News' Brian Hartman
Mask mandate for US travel extended into January
The mask mandate for travelers on planes, trains and buses will be extended into January, according to a Department of Homeland Security source.
-ABC News' Sam Sweeney
Most Florida hospitals expect 'critical staff shortages'
Three out of every four Florida hospitals "expect to face critical staff shortages" in the next week as hospitalizations likely continue to rise, Florida Hospital Association President and CEO Mary Mayhew said in a statement Tuesday.
"Half of our hospitals will no longer accept transfer patients from other facilities," Mayhew added.
Hard-hit Florida currently has 16,521 COVID-19 patients in hospitals and just 14.2% of hospital beds available, according to federal data.
-ABC News' Brian Hartman
'What we're dealing with now is completely different,' says pulmonologist who lost 3 patients in week
An Alabama doctor is seeing young, healthy patients die from COVID-19 amid the surge of the delta variant.
Dr. Jenna Carpenter, a pulmonary care physician at Marshall Medical South in Guntersville, Alabama, has lost three patients under the age of 40 in the past week from complications related to COVID-19, she told ABC Huntsville, Alabama, affiliate WAAY.
"The young man I lost this week was perfectly healthy," she said. "He wasn't overweight. He did not have any known medical issues and that was a tragedy."
The worst phone call the physicians have to make is to inform family members that their loved one has taken a turn for the worst, Carpenter added.
"In our heart we know this is going to be the last time these folks talk to their families," she said.
The state currently has more ICU patients than beds, and frontline workers are also getting sick from the highly contagious variant, WAAY reported.
"Last week we were down to 35 or 40 ICU beds. Now we are down at the single digits," Dr. Don Williamson, a former state health officer who is now the president and CEO of the Alabama Hospital Association, told the station. "It doesn’t matter if it is six or two, we could even be negative ICU beds."
-ABC News’ Cherise Rudy