Virginia's vaccine coordinator Dr. Danny Avula said the early findings of a Johnson & Johnson booster shot are encouraging but adds there is more data to be seen and reviewed and more procedural steps that have to be taken before the boosters are approved.
none of us have a crystal ball and i d love to be wrong on this, but that s the real possibility t barrel of the gun we re looking down right now. i think you re exactly right in the way you ve phrased that. tell me about resources being brought to bear. we ve seen hhs with a field hospital in the parking garage at the mississippi medical center. we saw a small navy team dispatched to a small hospital in lafayette. they re going to be able to staff 16, 18, 20 beds maybe. tell us about the match between the magnitude of the problem that you re living through and what kind of external resources might make a dent, might help. well, i think right now we do need help from outside, no doubt about that. and we have a phenomenal leader of our alabama department of public health, scott harris, who was in meetings all day today with a white house representative, a vaccine
dispatched to a hospital in lafayette. they are going to be able to staff 16, 18, 20 beds maybe, tell us about the match between the magnitude of the problem that you re living through and what kind of external resources might make a dent, might help. well, i think right now, we do need help from outside, no doubt about that. and we have a phenomenal leader of our alabama department of health, scott harris who was in meetings all day today with the white house representative, a vaccine coordinator, leader from the white house who s here in alabama, and this was one of the lead issues that they were discussing throughout the day today. he s going to be here tomorrow as well. we welcome the input from the white house and from the national level to be able to try to get us the resources that we need. and in addition to that i will say this in a somewhat hopeful kind of a way, we have seen this play out maybe not to this extent in our part of the country, but we ve seen it play
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Southwest Virginia health leaders warn of highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant
Low vaccination rates may cause cases to rise
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Delta variant poses as major threat in fight against COVID-19
ROANOKE, Va. – As the push to vaccinate more Virginians continues, local health leaders are warning of a new variant of COVID-19 believed to spread more quickly.
The highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant is here in the Commonwealth and health leaders predict it is here to stay for a while.
“I think most of us think it’s a matter of time and just to keep in mind that the Delta variant is more transmissible than the other strains of COVID-19,” Roanoke City and Alleghany Health District Director Dr. Cynthia Morrow said.