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Delta variant finding very fertile territory in missouris largely unvaccinated population. in southwest missouri no county has more than 35% of its population vaccinated. and if you widen the lens a little bit beyond just springfield the situation actually looks a little rougher. just outside springfield, missouri to the southeast is a small rural county called howell county. theres no good-size cities there. its a rural place, very white, very conservative. as far as i can tell, that county mad...

Authorities will now do that for you. but widen the aperture on this story sort of gets you to each new story here. crisis in southwest missouri in springfield where the hospitals are now being overrun. theyre at capacity with the numbers still spiking. crisis in all of southern missouri as the virus runs rampant there and theres nowhere to ship patients in part because springfield has no room at the inn. widen the aperture a little further, this is the headline in the kansas city star yesterday...

Hospitals in springfield are full. the tide of covid patients is still only increasing. they are asking the state to come in and open an alternate care facility, presumably some kind of emergency field hospital in springfield, missouri, because the icus are full, the ventilators are maxed out, the staff is maxed out, the beds there are at capacity. again, this is now. weve been watching over the last couple of weeks as hospitals in southwest missouri have been sounding this alarm announcing they...

Are now being overrun. theyre at capacity with the numbers still spiking. crisis in all of southern missouri as the virus runs rampant there and theres nowhere to ship patients in part because springfield has no room at the inn. widen the aperture a little further, this is the headline in "the kansas city star" yesterday. "vaccination rates in some kansas city area counties lower than in hard-hit springfield." so, yeah, southwest missouri, springfields in crisis coping with this delta variant th...

You start to see how this affects other places. right? chicago, for example, so worried about whats going on in southern missouri that if you want to travel to chicago from missouri or arkansas and you are unvaccinated the city of chicago now says as of yesterday you must quarantine for ten days or have a negative covid-19 test. again, as a condition of your travel to chicago. but just keep widening the lens. right? if weve learned anything in this miserable pandemic it is that viral dynamics do...