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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S.
Source: Yahoo News
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Florida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S.
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Thu, July 22, 2021, 1:20 PM·3 min read
WASHINGTON Just three states are now driving the pandemic in the United States, as the divide between vaccinated and unvaccinated regions of the country becomes ever more stark, as the more transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads.
Forty percent of all new cases this week have been recorded in Florida, Texas and Missouri, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed at a press briefing Thursday.
Florida alone accounts for 20 percent of all new cases nationally, Zients pointed out, a trend that has stretched into its second week.
Zients added that virtually all hospitalizations and deaths a full 97 percent are among unvaccinated people. The threat is now predominantly only to the unvaccinated, he said. A few vaccinated people do experience so-called breakthrough infections, but they tend to experience only mild COVID-19 illness, or no illness at all.
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Florida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S.
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Thu, July 22, 2021, 1:20 PM·3 min read
WASHINGTON Just three states are now driving the pandemic in the United States, as the divide between vaccinated and unvaccinated regions of the country becomes ever more stark, as the more transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads.
Forty percent of all new cases this week have been recorded in Florida, Texas and Missouri, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed at a press briefing Thursday.
Florida alone accounts for 20 percent of all new cases nationally, Zients pointed out, a trend that has stretched into its second week.
Zients added that virtually all hospitalizations and deaths a full 97 percent are among unvaccinated people. The threat is now predominantly only to the unvaccinated, he said. A few vaccinated people do experience so-called breakthrough infections, but they tend to experience only mild COVID-19 illness, or no illness at all.
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Florida, Missouri and Texas now account for 40% of new coronavirus cases in U.S. (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2021
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bahboo
(16,378 posts)1. jeez...imagine that....
Initech
(100,124 posts)2. Killing themselves to "own the libs". Get the damn vaccine!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,383 posts)3. This 👆
Initech
(100,124 posts)4. Yeah they're not owning anybody except themselves.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,487 posts)5. They own the Delta variant.
gulliver
(13,198 posts)6. I live in the Show Me state. Hope they're finally feeling "shown."
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)7. Doing their part
To turn these states blue in record time