“We have a pandemic for those who haven’t gotten the vaccination — it’s that basic, that simple,” President Joe Biden said.
The coronavirus pandemic is fast becoming one for those people who have not yet gotten vaccinated, a frustrated President Joe Biden has warned, but he is also optimistic that children under the age of 12 will be eligible to join the program within months.
U.S. hospitalizations and deaths are nearly all among the unvaccinated. And COVID-19 cases nearly tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray. Ohio’s chief medical officer did not mince words on Wednesday when he said that with the delta variant, it’s a question of “when, not if” the unvaccinated become infected, according to Cleveland.com. That variant accounted for 36% of all cases that were sequenced in Ohio in the two-week period to July 3, said Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the chief medical officer for the Ohio Department of Health. That’s up from 1% a month earlier.
The World Health Organization, meanwhile, stepped up its campaign for greater vaccine equity with another strongly worded speech from Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday. An acceleration in scaling up manufacturing and sharing enough vaccine doses with low-income countries could have added $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had similar vaccination rates as high income countries,” the WHO said in a joint statement with the United Nations Development Program and the University of Oxford.
“Of course I am [sorry]. But what’s important is that we’re totally focused on ensuring that we’ve been turning this around. I take responsibility for the vaccination program [and] I also take responsibility for the challenges we’ve had,” Morrison told reporters at a Canberra briefing.
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