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.
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bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)LibinMo
(533 posts)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 wont work either. It isnt working in other states where they have done this and it wont work here.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)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
Phoenix61
(16,951 posts)The Kraken is coming. Starting to lose it on the unvaccinated. Give me strength.
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)Ellipsis
(9,123 posts)Canoe52
(2,944 posts)Tried to convince another elderly relative that its their freedum not to wear a mask.
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)Traildogbob
(8,571 posts)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.
BlueWavePsych
(2,634 posts)LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)BaronChocula
(1,457 posts)Missouri - The Show Me How Stupid You Are State