![]() “America, we’re in this together,” the Fox & Friends show anchor Steve Doocy said in the ad, while host Harris Faulkner said: “If you can, get the vaccine” before a screenshot of the CDC’s website appeared. The cable news station aired a public service announcement on Wednesday to encourage viewers to get the vaccine. The recent surges of the virus in the US are convincing even some who downplayed the impact of the pandemic to promote vaccinations.įox News is belatedly jumping on board to convince people to get inoculated. Researchers at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the variant grows more rapidly inside people’s respiratory tracts and becomes more infectious sooner. The Delta variant is understood to spread two to three times faster than the original version of the virus. ![]() Meanwhile, the CDC is considering updating its masking guidance. The White House is currently debating whether to ask vaccinated Americans to wear masks again, especially in areas where the Delta variant is surging. With the rise in infections, hospitalizations and deaths Joe Biden once again urged unvaccinated Americans to take the “gigantically important step” of getting their shots, when he addressed a CNN town hall in Cincinnati on Wednesday evening. “I’d say get the vaccine, take the chance, it can’t hurt, all it can do is alleviate some of the symptoms, even if it doesn’t keep you from getting it – it will at least help you get through it,” she said. Now she wants the vaccine.Īccording to the CDC, people who have had Covid-19 can still get the shot, but some may have to wait 90 days depending on the treatment they received.Ġ1:56 CDC chief says Covid becoming 'a pandemic of the unvaccinated' – video I just – all of a sudden, my lungs just didn’t work,” she said, describing it as “hitting a wall”. Johnson, who had no co-morbidities, told CBS News she was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with Covid-19 symptoms. Local pharmaceutical researcher Paula Johnson put off getting the vaccine, and was sent to the hospital in an ambulance with Covid-19. In Louisiana, only 36% of eligible people have been vaccinated. “This is a dramatic increase, up from 50% for the week of July 3,” she said. The variant now makes up 83% of new cases in the US, according to Walensky. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she added, referring to patients who have to be put on a ventilator.Īlabama public health officials recently reported 96% of Alabamians who have died of Covid since April were not fully vaccinated.Īmong the people succumbing to the deadly disease are those who are increasingly catching the Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is far more contagious than the original. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. “I’m admitting young, healthy people to the hospital with very serious Covid infections,” wrote Cobia in a Facebook post on Sunday. On Monday, a doctor in a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital, Brytney Cobia, said that all but one of her Covid patients at Grandview medical center didn’t receive the vaccine, with the one who had expected to make a full recovery after receiving oxygen, she told the Birmingham News. ![]() In places such as Alabama, only 33% of people who can receive the vaccine had been fully vaccinated, as of 20 July. Meanwhile vaccination rates have slowed down nationwide and are especially low in some of the more conservative, southern parts of the country, despite more than 610,000 people in the US dying of the virus since the pandemic hit in early 2020. ![]()
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