Posted on 07/10/2021 1:05:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After months of progress in the fight against Covid-19, cases are rising again as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads across the US.
States with below-average vaccination rates have almost triple the rate of new Covid-19 cases compared to states with above-average vaccination rates, according to new data from Johns Hopkins University.
As of Sunday, states with lower rates of vaccination reported an average of 6 new cases per 100,000 residents every day over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins.
States with higher vaccination rates reported an average of 2.2 new cases per 100,000 residents each day over the past week.
Arkansas, where less than 35% of residents were fully vaccinated Sunday, averaged 16 new cases per 100,000 residents every day over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins. That's about five times the nationwide rate of new cases.
And Arkansas is one of 10 states where the rate of new cases jumped more than 25% over the past week compared to the previous week. Of those 10 states, all but one -- Delaware -- had below-average vaccination rates.
On the flip side, Vermont leads the country in vaccination rates, with 66% of its residents fully vaccinated.
Vermont also has the lowest rate of new Covid-19 cases -- less than 1 per 100,000 residents each day over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins. That's a decrease of nearly 16% from the previous week.
The gap in progress between highly vaccinated states and those lagging in vaccinations keeps growing.
Parts of the South, Southwest and Midwest are starting to see surges, said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University.
Florida is getting hit particularly hard, with about 17% of all new cases in the US being reported out of the Sunshine State, he said.
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All 50 states and Washington, DC, have reported cases of the highly contagious Delta variant.
“We learned this virus, a variant of Covid, is highly transmissible — the most transmissible we’ve seen to date,” US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said last week.
“This is, again, a serious threat and we are seeing it spread among unvaccinated people.”
The virus carries a cluster of mutations, including one known as L452R, that helps it infect human cells more easily.
The director-general of the World Health Organization has also said “Delta is the most transmissible of the variants identified so far.”
True and the vaccine has adequate coverage of it. It’s not any more deadly than other strains
Magical mystery virus. We will be locked down again by Fall. It’s the mad rush to jab, jab, jab!
It’s not a magical virus. Just does what viruses do.
Not where I live.
Define “Case”.
Meanwhile, how’s the death rate in those states?
More BS from the MSM & Big Bro.
We shall. The oligarchy has another election to steal next year.
Won’t lock down where I live either.
Seek and ye shall find. Meaning, they have a lot more to prove causal relationship than just citing statistics on vaccination rates.
Last I checked, and I admit it was just one piece of data snapshot in time, Israel had a spike in Delta variant hospitalizations among the vaccinated. Almost half of new cases are among those vaccinated (almost all Pfizer in Israel) and a great percentage the Delta variant.
So while I wish everyone well, I personally need more information than our media is willing to contextualize to follow them any further down the rabbit hole.
That looks like a revolver with 2 cylinders.
The mRNA twisters won’t have to cancel their party venue reservations.
after months of lockdowns, masks mandates, and the development of vaccines to supposedly contain the spread of a virus biden opens the border, invites, welcomes, and continues to spread thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a global pandemic...
Cause & effect.
From the article: “The gap in progress between highly vaccinated states and those lagging in vaccinations keeps growing.”
And, here at FreeRepublic, we are inundated by more and more posts trying to discourage people from getting the vaccines.
I notice they never talk about deaths or raw numbers now. Just infections and percentages. Gotta keep that fear porn going.
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