Houston is the latest city tightening Covid guidelines
, nearly 68% of adults in the U.S. have had at least one Covid shot, but the vaccination rate varies largely across the country. Mississippi has the lowest rate, with only around 37% of residents having received one shot. That's an especially concerning figure since state State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbslast week that Delta makes up “pretty much ALL cases” in Mississippi. Health officials across the U.S.
are also concerned about the high levels of vaccine hesitancy among young people, since the Delta variant appears to cause more severe Covid cases in young people than other strains. Vaccines still seem to be highly effective at warding off infection from the Delta variant, but high rates of transmission have sparked concerns there could be more “breakthrough cases”—Covid-19 cases among the fully vaccinated.
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