Video team, explores two of the main reasons the number of Covid cases is soaring once again in the United States: vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
“It’s hard to watch the pandemic drag on as Americans refuse the vaccine in the name of freedom,” he says.
Seeking understanding, Mr. Stockton travels to Mountain Home, Ark., in the Ozarks, a region with galloping contagion and — not unrelated — abysmal vaccination rates.
He finds that a range of feelings and beliefs underpins the low rates — including fear, skepticism and a libertarian strain of defiance.
Chris Green sadly passed away 9 days after filming. He was 53. His parents who were obviously significantly older than him, vaccinated, both survived covid.
90% of the patients with covid in the hospital are unvaccinated.
Very interesting piece talking about a very vaccine hesitant town.
I couldn’t hep but think of all the resources spent - the money, the manpower, the medical supplies - to tend to the unvaccinated people in the hospital there. Had they been vaccinated…
And it brings the question up again - in the middle of a pandemic, do you have the right to put your community at risk, to squander resources and time and effort, when all the can be avoid to pennies.
That’s a lot of guessing on your part. I note you are comparing 2020 holiday season to today. Doesn’t Delta, why is far more contagious, make that comparison faulty?
Population of 7.615 M
14% are ages 0-11
6.549 M people in WA 12+
72% of people 12+ are fully vaccinated
1.833 M people 12+ in WA are not fully vaccinated
There have been a total of 704k Covid cases in WA. Let’s assume 20% got vaccinated so we can’t double count them. Likely at least 10% were under 12. That means 493k have had Covid (12+) and have some sort of immunity. Mind you, I think this is high.
So that leaves 1.883-0.493 M or 1,399,000 people (12+) in WA who are susceptible to Covid. That’s still a lot of people for Delta to find.
Right now Covid is killing about 50/day in WA. Seems reasonable considering the number of people still at risk.
No individual is “putting their community at risk” when everyone who is at risk has the option of taking a vaccine. But if you feel they are, how outraged are you at your Biden admin “putting communities at risk” by distributing untested and or covid positive illegal immigrants around the US
