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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 08:51 PM Jul 2021

US sends Covid-19 surge team to southwest Missouri after Delta variant fuels rise in cases and

Source: CNN

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(CNN)The US government is deploying a Covid-19 surge team to provide public health support in southwest Missouri, where the spread of the virus is filling up hospital beds once again.

The surge of Covid-19 cases is so high in the city of Springfield, Missouri, that the CoxHealth hospital system began transferring patients infected with the virus to other facilities to provide better staffing. At Cox South, a Springfield hospital, 12 Covid-19 patients were transferred to other facilities in the region between Friday and Monday morning.

Over the past week, the Missouri Covid-19 caseload came in second highest in the country, with 15.5 new cases per 100,000 people daily, or 108 cases per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University data published Sunday. Arkansas claimed the highest rate at 15.7 new cases per 100,000 people each day, the data shows.

"We're already starting to see places with low vaccination rates starting to have relatively big spikes from the Delta variant," said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Science_070721&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=WIR_Science&bxid=5be9f8cb24c17c6adf0e5d24&cndid=25394153&esrc=bounceX&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_SCIENCE_ZZ&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A

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US sends Covid-19 surge team to southwest Missouri after Delta variant fuels rise in cases and (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
The Feds are going to Missouri? Won't the Governor arrest them at the border? /nt bucolic_frolic Jul 2021 #1
From his website LibinMo Jul 2021 #9
He's a Rebl2 Jul 2021 #10
Sounds like they're working with healthcare providers, employers, mobile clinics, etc. IronLionZion Jul 2021 #12
Give it 7-10 days. All those July 4th family reunions. nt Phoenix61 Jul 2021 #2
Absolutely Olafjoy Jul 2021 #3
Yep, Trumpers about to take the Darwin test... JCMach1 Jul 2021 #4
Don't forget Branson... running at full speed this time of year. Ellipsis Jul 2021 #5
Have family down there, "it's all fake news" by the librul press they say. Canoe52 Jul 2021 #6
We have a covid surge team? I love Joe Biden. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #7
Send Marginal Trailer Queen Traildogbob Jul 2021 #8
Can't fix stupid BlueWavePsych Jul 2021 #11
My stubborn state. n/t LiberatedUSA Jul 2021 #13
Another Failed gopper-Led State BaronChocula Jul 2021 #14

Rebl2

(13,303 posts)
10. He's a
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 11:02 AM
Jul 2021

piece of work. No one is going to compel anyone to get a vaccine. By the way mr. parson your consideration of giving people a prize to get vaccinated won’t work either. It isn’t working in other states where they have done this and it won’t work here.

IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
12. Sounds like they're working with healthcare providers, employers, mobile clinics, etc.
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 02:04 PM
Jul 2021

rather than sending government employees or agents to do whatever the paranoid right is imagining.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/06/1013496192/the-biden-administration-is-taking-its-covid-19-vaccine-campaign-door-to-door

Canoe52

(2,944 posts)
6. Have family down there, "it's all fake news" by the librul press they say.
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 03:34 AM
Jul 2021

Tried to convince another elderly relative that it’s their freedum not to wear a mask.

Traildogbob

(8,571 posts)
8. Send Marginal Trailer Queen
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:52 AM
Jul 2021

There to give a support talk bout FreeDumb and no masks, and not interested in Delta. Send her to Covid units at hospitals, they can use some words of wisdom and uplifting encouragement from her.

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