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Delta variant finding very fertile territory in missouri's 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. there's no good-size cities there. it's a rural place, very white, very conservative. as far as i can tell, that county made national news precisely once in the past 15 years. in 2008 when somebody put up a racist billbo...

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. they're at capacity with the numbers still spiking. crisis in all of southern missouri as the virus runs rampant there and there's 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 yea...

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. we've been watching over the last couple of weeks as hospitals in southwest missouri have been sounding this alarm announcing they were hitting new records, opening new covid units, making public appeals for respiratory therapist...

Springfield. about an hour and a half, two hours away. but again, in springfield right now they're full. in springfield they're begging the state to set up some new pop-up emergency hospital and please, they need it within days, they can't wait weeks, it needs to happen now. and it's one thing to see that desperation in the city of springfield as their covid numbers go through the roof. it's another thing to realize that all the less populated counties and communities, the less resourced counties and communities in that whole part of the state, they were all counting on being able to send thei...

Are now being overrun. they're at capacity with the numbers still spiking. crisis in all of southern missouri as the virus runs rampant there and there's 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, springfield's in crisis coping with this delta variant that infects unvaccinated so easily. but head up the highway to kansas city, missouri, triple the s...