Steve Edwards, the president and CEO of a health care system in Missouri, is troubled that health experts cannot seem to inspire more people to get vaccinated in his area, which is being hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edwards, of Springfield-based Cox Health, told CNN on Friday that his system has had 534 Covid-19 patients die, with more than 100 of those deaths after vaccines became widely available. None of the patients who died were vaccinated.
He is desperately trying to figure out how to get through to people. If I knew how I was missing the mark, we could correct and change, he told CNN s Alisyn Camerota. The community needs 80 to 90% of people to get immunity either from getting inoculated or catching the virus, he said.
A statue of George Floyd that has been in Brooklyn s Flatbush neighborhood since Juneteenth will be moved on Monday first back to the studio for refurbishment and then to Manhattan s Union Square Park in September as planned, according to Confront Art, the group that produced the statue.
The 6-foot statue was unveiled this summer as part of New York City s Juneteenth celebrations. It was meant to be displayed in Brooklyn for a few weeks before being moved to Manhattan, but it was vandalized days later with black spray paint and the website address of a white nationalist group.
Though volunteers have been working to clean the statue since its defacement, a spokesperson for Confront Art confirmed it will be transported back to the studio for further restoration before making the trip to Union Square.
For months, conservative Nashville, Tennessee-based radio host Phil Valentine has repeatedly made posts on multiple social media platforms telling his fans that if they weren t at risk for Covid-19, they shouldn t get the vaccine.
That message changed on July 23, when the Valentine family made a public statement on the Facebook page of his talk radio station s Facebook page. Phil contracted the Covid virus a little over a week ago and has since been hospitalized and is in very serious condition, suffering from Covid Pneumonia and the attendant side effects, the family statement reads, which emphasizes that Valentine has never been an anti-vaxxer. (Phil) regrets not being more vehemently Pro-Vaccine and looks forward to being able to more vigorously advocate that position as soon as he is back on the air, which we all hope will be soon.
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