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.
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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.
The delta variant of the COVID-19 virus is continuing to spread across California. On Thursday, health experts at UC Davis Health released new data with a statement expressing concern over the highly contagious nature of the delta strain and low vaccination rates. We re all thinking that another surge is likely, said Christian Sandrock, director of Critical Care at the medical center. It is frightening. I don t think we ll go back to the worst we ve seen, due to the vaccine, but it s hard to tell. KCRA 3 reporter Stephanie Lin sat down with Dr. Natascha Tuznik, associate professor of infectious disease at UC Davis to learn more about the medical center s findings. What are latest COVID-19 hospitalization rates looking like at UC Davis? Tuznik: Nearly 80% of current COVID-19 cases in UC Davis Health patients are the delta strain. The problem with delta is it is largely more transmissible, and 40-50% more infectious. Nationally, 97% of patients hospitalized are unvaccinated.How
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.