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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.
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