Experts fear outbreaks in the region as government officials work to convince hesitant populations to get vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported high community transmission in rural parts of Missouri and Kansas, regions with lower vaccination rates.metrics have been declining rapidly, infections in areas with low vaccination rates persist -- a particularly worrisome trend, experts say, as new, and more transmissible variants emerge.
Of particular concern are southern states like Alabama, which has the second lowest full vaccination rate in the country and already had a strugglingExperts fear outbreaks in the state and region as government officials work to convince hesitant populations to get vaccinated. "I am still putting patients on life support machines, because they're non-vaccinated and becoming very ill. The patients I'm seeing now are either young people, who never believed they would get sick, young pregnant women who were afraid of the vaccine ...
The growing threat of the delta variant is of significant concern in Alabama, given the large pockets of people who are not vaccinated, noted Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health. Many of the chronic issues within Alabama's health care system that existed prior to COVID-19 were exacerbated by the pandemic.
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