Nearly every new Covid-19 death is now entirely preventable, CDC director says
Those still dying from Covid-19 in the US are "overwhelmingly" unvaccinated, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
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"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 nonimmunized community. "We will be the canary."
The state now leads the nation with the highest rate of new covid-19 infections, and the surge is happening largely in a farming region in the northern part of the state and in the southwestern corner, which includes Springfield and Branson, the country music mecca in the Ozark Mountains where big crowds are gathering again at the city's theaters and other attractions.
While more than 53% of all Americans have received at least one shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most southern and northern Missouri counties are well short of 40%. One county is at just 13%.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson has taken the position that it is better to ask people to take "personal responsibility" than to enact restrictions.
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