Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo raised the countyâs COVID-19 threat level last week amidst a recent rise in cases and hospitalizations in the Houston region, urging residents to minimize all contacts with others unless they are fully vaccinated.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also released updated guidance Tuesday based on the proliferation of the highly contagious Delta variant. The CDC recommended that even people who have been fully vaccinated should wear masks in indoor public places in locales with a âsubstantial or high level of transmission,â which includes the Houston area and much of Texas, according to the CDC.
Judge Hidalgo asks vaccinated residents in Harris County to mask up again due to rise in COVID-19 cases
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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.
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.
HISD Still Planning In-Person Classes As Delta Spreads
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