Thread by @DrEricDing

📍SAD: >70,000 hospitalizations & 4700 lives in Florida and Texas could have saved by the end of July if those 2 states had vaccination coverage of ~74% like New England states, says @Alison_Galvani @Pratha_Sah. So, @GovRonDeSantis @GregAbbott_TX? #COVID19
commonwealthfund.org/blog/2021/incr…

2) “In contrast, the two states with the greatest burdens of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths currently — Florida and Texas — had fully vaccinated only 59.3 percent and 55.6 percent of their adult residents, respectively.”

3) “We calculated the number of deaths, hospitalizations, and cases that could have been averted if Florida & Texas had reached vaccination coverage of 74%. We found that by doing so, the two states could have averted >70,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 deaths by the end of July.

4) “The highly infectious Delta variant, which is driving the current surge, makes the situation even more dire. As of Aug. 11, the seven-day average of new daily cases had exceeded 118,000 across the U.S., higher than the peak the summer before.

5) “Outbreaks are predominantly affecting states that have relatively low vaccination coverage, with nearly a third of recent cases occurring in Florida and Texas.”

6) This is what abdication of political leadership and bad vaccine misinformation has now done to us. Poor Texas nursing home residents.

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