'This is it. This is super real.' Marcus Moore speaks with an unvaccinated COVID-19 patient being treated at Willis-Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana since late July, who tells of his experience and urges others to get vaccinated.
Mississippi is facing"a phenomenal increase in daily reported cases of COVID, and this is entirely attributable to the delta variant, which is sweeping over Mississippi like a tsunami," state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said Thursday.Usage of required face masks are posted throughout Jackson State University during an open COVID-19 vaccination site sponsored by the university and the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 3, 2021.
Dobbs said 97% of new cases are among the unvaccinated, and that 89% of hospitalizations and 85% of deaths are unvaccinated. Dobbs pleaded with the public to get vaccinated, stressing that the unvaccinated population is driving the current surge, but that vulnerable, vaccinated people are suffering the fallout.
"There is going to be some collateral damage, unfortunately, even folks who've done everything they can to protect themselves," Dobbs said. "The minority of folks who are vaccinated and hospitalized are overrepresented by the older and those with weaker immune system, so we're seeing a pretty dramatic spillover effect from the transmission in the community to more vulnerable parts of our population," he said.
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