COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Newton County and that has drawn national attention.
Newton County and the state of Missouri (which leads the nation in new COVID cases) are featured in an article on the national website Politico.
"We were kind of hopeful we were coming out of it," Newton County Health Department Administrator Larry Bergner told Politico.
Bergner noted that the county, which at one point last month had only eight active cases, now has 68.
About 17 percent of Newton County’s 58,000 residents are fully vaccinated, compared with more than 45 percent nationally and more than 38 percent statewide in Missouri. During the last seven days, about 310 county residents received a dose. That compares with about 1,100 to 1,200 during the height of the vaccination drive in March, Bergner said.The problem is not lack of vaccines. On the contrary. The Health Department has the vaccines, but it can't give them away.
Newton County residents are more worried about the vaccine than the virus, Bergner told Politico.
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Many Newton County residents just don’t believe the virus is all that deadly, Bergner said. “It is frustrating, especially when you hear of someone who dies and you hear they are unvaccinated.”
So the anti-science anti-reality rebiblicant party chickens come home to roost?
Bergner, who describes himself as a conservative Republican, said he doesn’t think the resistance is rooted in politics.
Cause and effect. What is it?
Followers of the Carrot Hued Kook formerly occupying the White House are notoriously ill-informed and resistant to facts.
Steve Edwards, CEO of Cox Health, lamented in a tweet that while a number of major news organizations have contacted the hospital about the rise in cases, Fox News was not among them.
“Fox," he tweeted, “is the most popular cable news in our area — you can help educate on Delta, vaccines and can save lives."
Lisa Meeks, 49, of Springfield, is among those who haven't been vaccinated. She said that she is a Christian and that God gave her a strong immune system.
“As of right now, nobody knows anything long term or short term about these vaccines because they are brand new," she said, despite months of real-world evidence that the vaccines are highly safe and effective. “And so people are now basically the lab rats."
When your failure to believe in evolution or understand how evolution works...unwittingly helps make you eligible to win a Darwin Award...
Lemmings
Source of above excerpt: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/missouri/2021/06/23/unvaccinated-missourians-fuel-covid-19-surge-we-canary/5323496001/
Ignorance is the absence of knowledge.
Stupidity is the presence of knowledge and the refusal to use it.
~ Paulo Coelho
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