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And here we go again....
Some areas of Missouri are the first to reach the tipping point of Delta prevalence where the steady decline of cases turns around and hospital beds begin to fill up.
It's one of the areas with very low vaccination take-up to date, making it ripe for this more transmissible variant to rip through.
Source of the above and a good summary of the current situation in Missouri >>> https://apnews.com/article/mo-state...demic-health-89fa995c59397228d8d56e1ab45890ab
Get jabbed people - they work!
Some areas of Missouri are the first to reach the tipping point of Delta prevalence where the steady decline of cases turns around and hospital beds begin to fill up.
It's one of the areas with very low vaccination take-up to date, making it ripe for this more transmissible variant to rip through.
As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, Missouri is becoming a cautionary tale for the rest of the country: It is seeing an alarming rise in cases because of a combination of the fast-spreading delta variant and stubborn resistance among many people to getting vaccinated.
Intensive care beds are filling up with surprisingly young, unvaccinated patients, and staff members are getting burned out fighting a battle that was supposed to be in its final throes.
The hope among some health leaders is that the rest of the U.S. might at least learn something from Missouri’s plight.
“If people elsewhere in the country are looking to us and saying, ‘No thanks’ and they are getting vaccinated, that is good,” said Erik Frederick, chief administrative officer at Mercy Hospital Springfield, which has been inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community. “We will be the canary.”
Intensive care beds are filling up with surprisingly young, unvaccinated patients, and staff members are getting burned out fighting a battle that was supposed to be in its final throes.
The hope among some health leaders is that the rest of the U.S. might at least learn something from Missouri’s plight.
“If people elsewhere in the country are looking to us and saying, ‘No thanks’ and they are getting vaccinated, that is good,” said Erik Frederick, chief administrative officer at Mercy Hospital Springfield, which has been inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community. “We will be the canary.”
Source of the above and a good summary of the current situation in Missouri >>> https://apnews.com/article/mo-state...demic-health-89fa995c59397228d8d56e1ab45890ab
Get jabbed people - they work!
