As COVID-19 cases surge, some hospitals across the country are raising the alarm over hospitalization rates that may push facilities to capacity.
Eric Wilson, 20, whose father recently died of COVID-19, receives a dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.A new CDC study released Friday found that unvaccinated people who have had COVID-19 before are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with the virus compared to people who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus.
“If you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. “This study shows you are twice as likely to get infected again if you are unvaccinated. Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and others around you, especially as the more contagious Delta variant spreads around the country.
More than 165.9 million Americans, or 50% of the population of all ages, are fully vaccinated, with 193.7 million having received at least one dose as of Friday. “What Tokyo has just done in a historic way is prove that that advice is the right advice," Brian McCloskey, who led the advisory panel, said. "And by following basic public health measures and by layering on top of that the testing program, we have shown it is possible to keep the pandemic at bay.”
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