Coronavirus disease Under the violent impact of vaccine misinformation, the number of cases in the United States tripled in two weeks, which overwhelmed hospitals, exhausted doctors, and put clergy in trouble.
“Our employees are frustrated,” said Chad Nielsen, director of infection prevention at UF Health Jacksonville Hospital in Florida, which cancelled after most of the unvaccinated COVID-19 inpatients on its two campuses jumped to 134 Elective surgeries and procedures rose from a low of 16 in mid-May.
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“They are tired. They think it’s deja vu again, a little angry, because we know it is largely preventable and people are not using the vaccine.”
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, in the United States, the 7-day rolling average of daily new cases in the past two weeks has risen from less than 13,700 on July 6 to over 37,000 on Tuesday. Health officials blamed delta variants and slowing vaccination rates. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 56.2% of Americans have at least one dose of the vaccine.
In Louisiana, health officials reported 5,388 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the third highest number of daily cases since the pandemic began in early 2020. The number of people hospitalized for the disease across the state rose to 844, an increase of more than 600 since mid-June.
Utah reported that 295 people were hospitalized with the virus, the highest number since February. In the past week, the state had an average of 622 confirmed cases per day, about three times the lowest infection rate in early June. Health data shows that the surge is almost entirely related to people who have not been vaccinated.
“It’s like seeing it before a car accident,” said Dr. James Williams, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Texas Tech University, who recently started treating more COVID-19 patients. “None of us want to experience it again.”
He said the patients were younger—many in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—and the vast majority were not vaccinated.
As the chief pastor of one of the largest cathedrals in Missouri, Jeremy Johnson heard about why the congregation did not want a COVID-19 vaccine. He wants them to know that vaccination is not only possible, it is urged by the Bible.
“I think fear has a big impact,” Johnson said. His Springfield Church also has a campus in Nixa, and another is about to open in the Republic. “Afraid to believe in things outside the Bible, afraid to believe in things outside the political parties they are more willing to follow. Afraid to believe in science. We hear: “I believe in God, not science. “But the truth is that science and God are not things you have to choose between.”
Many churches in southwestern Missouri, such as the North Point Church, which belongs to the Johnson Church, are opening vaccination clinics. At the same time, about 200 church leaders signed a statement urging Christians to get vaccinated and announced a follow-up public service campaign on Wednesday.
According to a 2019 report by the Pew Research Center, white evangelical Protestants are particularly strong against vaccination, and they account for more than one-third of Missouri residents.
The Mayor of Springfield, Ken McClure, said: “We found that faith communities are very influential and very trustworthy. For me, this is one of the answers to how to increase vaccination rates.”
Both hospitals in his city were crowded with patients, reaching record and near record pandemic highs. Springfield CoxHealth CEO Steve Edwards said on Twitter that the hospital has sent 175 traveling nurses and plans to reach 46 nurses by Monday.
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“Thank you for your help,” Edwards wrote, who previously said on Twitter that anyone who spreads misinformation about the vaccine should “shut up.”
Jacob Burmood, a 40-year-old artist from Kansas City, Missouri, said that although her husband-Burmood’s stepfather-was hospitalized on a ventilator in Springfield, his mother had been promoting Vaccine conspiracy theory.
“It’s really, really sad, and really frustrating,” he said.
Burmood recalled how his mother was sick recently, and “trying to tell me that the person who was vaccinated made her sick, not even COVID. I just told her to shut up. I said,’Mom, I can’t talk to you about conspiracy right now. On…you need to go to the hospital. You are dying.”
His mother in her 70s has recovered.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (Bill de Blasio) said on Wednesday that in New York City, as officials fight the increase in COVID-19 cases, the staff of the city’s hospitals and health clinics will need every Get vaccinated or tested every week.
De Blasio’s order does not apply to teachers, police officers and other city employees, but it is part of the city’s high focus on vaccination in the case of increased delta mutation infections.
The daily dose of vaccine in the city has dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 in early April to less than 18,000. Approximately 65% of adults are fully vaccinated, but the vaccination rate for black adults under 45 is about 25%. Approximately 45% of the workforce in the city’s public hospital system is black.
At the same time, the number of cases in the city has been rising for several weeks, and health officials said that of the 10 cases they sequenced, the variant accounted for about 7 of them.
“We need our medical staff to be vaccinated, and delta variants are becoming more and more dangerous,” de Blasio told CNN.
Back in Louisiana, New Orleans officials weighed whether at least some of the mitigation measures would ease as the disease subsided.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the city’s top health officer, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, are expected to announce the news later on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Cantrell spokesperson Beau Tidwell said, “All options are on the table.”
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