Another group of medical care facilities left the Mississippi Hospital Association. North Mississippi Health Services confirmed that four of its facilities submitted a letter of resignation from MHA.
Simultaneously encouraging and discouraging is a good way to describe the current status of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospitals. The number of patients admitted.
“We are seeing more cases in children, the bulk of our cases are people ages 20 to 39,” said FIU infectious disease expert Dr. Aileen Marty. “There’s no question the unvaccinated are fueling the outbreak.”
As Dr. Marty explains it, the virus is proliferating among unvaccinated people, making them super-spreaders of the Delta variant, and that news is getting out.
“We have seen an uptick in vaccinations in Miami-Dade in particular and really in multiple parts of the state as people are becoming more aware of the problem,” Dr. Marty said.
Evelyn Lattimore-Miller was in the line for a vaccination. I asked her why she waited so long to roll up her sleeve.