Nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines were first administered in the United States, the country is returning to many of the hallmarks that defined earlier pandemic life: mask mandates, mass vaccination sites, crowded hospitals and a rising death toll.
FILE PHOTO: Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York TAOS, N.M. -
Despite that triumph of modern science, the country's death toll continues to mount. Since the first dose was administered, nearly 500,000 more people have died of COVID-19, with the country expected to cross the 800,000 mark next week, according to a Reuters tally. Mask mandates, which Republican governors mostly eschewed as government overreach, were a common infection-prevention tool for many Democratic governors during the pandemic's worst surge, which began during the year-end holiday season of 2020.
Around 94% of COVID-19 deaths at the hospital are among the unvaccinated. "It feels like it's impossible to keep seeing this and dealing with it," said Philpott. "I think that's why half the staff have gone." The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, pushed vaccinations early in 2021 to try to limit hospitalizations.
In Connecticut, health officials this week said unvaccinated people are five times more likely to get infected with COVID-19, 12 times more likely to be hospitalized and 16 times more likely to die.
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