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Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
No masks needed.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
Joe Biden continues to undermine public trust in the vaccine.
Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
I wonder How Many of YOUR AMIGO Posts KILLED People? With False and misinformationComment
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Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
The vote will now go before the FDA to issue a final decision
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Mississippi says Covid-19 deaths in pregnant women are rising -- and it's pleading with them to get vaccinated
By Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 8:44 PM EDT, Fri September 17, 2021
(CNN)At least eight pregnant Mississippi women have died of Covid-19 since late July -- none of them fully vaccinated -- officials said, more than doubling the state's pandemic total in just two months and spurring medical leaders to give this message:
We've long known Covid-19 puts pregnant women at greater risk for severe disease. And with the highly contagious Delta variant spiking case counts, expectant mothers need to know the vaccine is recommended for them.
"Please get vaccinated," Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the state's medical officer, said at one of two news conferences this month that addressed the topic. "You've got to protect yourself; you've got to protect your baby."Comment
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Re: Latest on the Corona Virus
Yep Florida Gov Dipshit
State virus deaths climb
Florida has another record week as COVID claims another 2,468 people.
BY IAN HODGSON AND CHRISTOPHER O’DONNELL
Times Staff Writers
Florida surpassed 51,000 COVID-related deaths this week.
The state hit a new high with 2,468 fatalities added this week as the delta variant continues to drive the deadliest phase yet of the 18-month pandemic. Due to delays in processing death records, many of the newly reported deaths occurred days or weeks ago.
If Florida were its own country, its 51,240 fatalities would rank 20th in the world, exceeding Chile’s 37,293 deaths. The Sunshine State now has 3.5 million infections — almost as many as Mexico, which has nearly six times the population.
“I think it’s been a really tough year and a half,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis when a reporter asked him about Florida passing the 50,000 mark at a Thursday news conference in Fort Lauderdale.
University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi said the number of COVID-19 deaths is striking given the
availability of a vaccine that has proven highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and death.
Florida’s high proportion of elderly residents, the age group most vulnerable to the virus, has undoubtedly contributed to the state’s death toll, he said. The high number of unvaccinated residents also has proved deadly.
The state distributed just over 335,000 doses of vaccine this week, a 27 percent drop in just two weeks and the lowest vaccination numbers since early August.
Now 70 percent of residents aged 12 and up are at least partially vaccinated as the Sunshine State crawled over the benchmark the Biden administration hoped the nation’s adults would reach on July 4, more than two months ago.
“A large proportion of these deaths were preventable if we were able to get more people vaccinated and bear down on those mitigating strategies,” Salemi said. “That’s what’s really, really sad.”Comment
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