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The director-general of the World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a moratorium on coronavirus vaccine booster shots to allow vaccine access to countries struggling to obtain jabs. We call on everyone with influence – Olympics athletes, investors, business leaders, faith leaders and every individual in their own family and community – to support our call for a moratorium on booster shots. until at least the end of September, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Tedros said the goal was to focus on enabling at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated.
Top U.S. health officials have said there is not yet enough data to support booster shots, even for the elderly and immunocompromised, though Israel is now recommending them for those groups. But WHO s call for a booster moratorium comes as infections are surging across the U.S. – driven by the highly contagious delta variant – where vaccine is plentiful but vaccine hesitancy re
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The COVID-19 delta variant is ripping through Mississippi, quadrupling cases numbers since June and leaving behind a deficit of ICU beds, overflowing emergency rooms and shuttered schools.
During a weekly meeting of state health officials on Friday, State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said COVID-19 in Mississippi is accelerating in the wrong direction. I thought we d be having about 1,000 cases right now, but we re looking at around 2,000 right now every day, Dobbs said.
The Mississippi State Department of Health has recorded over 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week. Since July 14, coronavirus-related hospitalizations have near tripled.
On Friday, Dobbs said there was a net deficit of beds in the state s intensive care units. While just nine beds are open among smaller hospitals, he noted there were 42 people in other emergency rooms across the state waiting for an ICU bed.
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