Thread by @DrEricDing

📍Hospital “OVERWHELMED” & “out of ventilators” & hospital staff are “exhausted” as #DeltaVariant hospitalizations continue to surge in Springfield, Missouri. Hospital trying to borrow ventilators, as #COVID19 spikes.

HT @KCTV5 @SavannahKCTV5 @JoeChiodo

2) The hospital crisis running out of ventilators is very 2020 deja Vu. That’s because #DeltaVariant is basically a 2.0 virus that makes us enter a new phase of the pandemic. #DeltaVariant is now 51% dominant in the Us for the first time… see 🧵

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1412556852294991872

3) fully vaccinated in Missouri is only 39%. Consider that the #DeltaVariant is incredibly transmissible and it’s causing surges even in 50% fully vaccinated UK and 60% fully vaccinated Israel…. A lot more Us states are vulnerable to delta.

4) there are literally thousands of US counties with less than 50% vaccinated — vast majority in fact. And consider that Israel is 60% vaccinated and still seeing surge of #DeltaVariant. Herd immunity is very far off— this is why we still need to mask and ventilate.

5) Worse, new #COVID19 per capita case rates are now running nearly 50% higher in Trump voting counties than in Biden voting counties over the last 14 days. The main difference is vaccinations.

Figures by @charles_gaba. acasignups.net/21/07/07/tired…

6) Consider that UK is more vaccinated than the US. They are seeing hospitalization surging due to #DeltaVariant in all regions of England as well as Scotland.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1412089591931285512

7) All of these regions are more vaccinated than Missouri. Thus, countless US states extremely vulnerable to #DeltaVariant hospitalization surges.

https://twitter.com/covid19actuary/status/1412069498107092992