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A tipping point’: Kansas City hospitals are turning away patients due to COVID surge
https://news.yahoo.com/tipping-point-kansas-city-hospitals-193117650.html
The Delta variant seems to be the predominant infectious agent in the US.
In Alabama, a doctor has been telling her COVID-19 patients that it is too late to get the vaccine, and she tells some before they are intubated.
In Mississippi, seven children were in ICU for COVID-19, and two were on ventilators, as of July 14.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/us/mississippi-covid-children/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/tipping-point-kansas-city-hospitals-193117650.html
KU has been turning down between one and six acute patients each day. If they had not been doing so, staff would be treating about 100 such patients, Stites said. Increasing COVID-19 infections could exacerbate the problem.
The Delta variant seems to be the predominant infectious agent in the US.
Missouri health officials on Wednesday reported the highest daily increase in infections since mid-January with 2,995 additional cases. The Missouri Independent, a news organization covering the state, reported that the seven-day average of cases rose to 2,144 per day, up “one-third in seven days and more than triple the average of June 21.”
In Alabama, a doctor has been telling her COVID-19 patients that it is too late to get the vaccine, and she tells some before they are intubated.
In Mississippi, seven children were in ICU for COVID-19, and two were on ventilators, as of July 14.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/us/mississippi-covid-children/index.html