Delta and unvaccinated people in America increase cases of Kovid-19

Currently, the United States has higher-than-average daily deaths from COVID-19 and 170,000 new cases, the highest levels since early March and late January, respectively. Both these numbers have been increasing in the last two weeks.

The cases — driven mostly by the Delta version — combined with the reluctance of some Americans — are concentrated in the south of the country. At the same time, it is also affecting the children.

Although the panorama It’s improving places that were trouble spots, Like Florida and Louisiana, infection rates are skyrocketing in Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee, driven by children returning to face-to-face classes, Easing restrictions on the use of face masks and low levels of vaccination.

Some hospitals have begun to show a situation similar to that experienced in January with the peak of infections forcing hospitals in the states of Washington and Utah to cancel surgeries. There is a serious shortage of medical personnel in Kentucky and Alabama. Hospital beds are missing in Tennessee. Intensive care units in Texas are at or above capacity.

Deteriorating outlook in the country’s vaccination campaign after nine months have angered and disappointed medical professionalshandjob who see the crisis as something that could have been prevented: Most of the deaths and hospitalizations were not vaccinated, which was a hard lesson for some families.

“We were trying to educate based on science, but I think the education that is happening now is based on tragedy, personal tragedy,” said Dr. Ryan Stanton said.

The governor said seventy percent of Kentucky state’s hospitals — 66 of the 96 centers — report significant staff shortages, the highest level ever in the pandemic.

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