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Delta variant was first detected in Greene County, Mo., in May. At the time, COVID-19 hospitalizations there had been hovering around 34. But by June 21, there were 155 patients in the county’s hospitals, and by July 8, that number had climbed to 192. That includes 70 patients being treated in critical care units.
The county with a population of about 297,000 people reported 19 COVID-19 deaths in June, and health officials expect that number to double or triple in July.
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We are just being inundated with COVID cases,” Kendra Findley, the county’s administrator of community health and epidemiology, told my colleague Melissa Healy. All of those cases were caused by the Delta variant.
LONDON, ONT After three decades of servicing vulnerable members of the St. Thomas Ont., community, the doors at Psychiatric Survivors Network of Elgin (PSNE) are closing. I m sorry it s happening, I really am because I enjoyed being there with them, says Patricia Rusk, a member of PSNE s board of directors. The peer-to-peer lived experience support group recently celebrated its 30 year anniversary. They ve helped those with addictions, homelessness and those in crisis but the drop-in centre will be shutting down due to a lack of funding from South West LHIN according to Rusk. They will try to take appointments by phone or social media.