Coronavirus cases rising in 8 US states as some Americans refuse to get vaccinated
Iran Press TV
Tuesday, 15 June 2021 2:17 AM
Covid-19 infections are rising in at least eight US states as some Americans refuse to get vaccinated., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Wyoming are seeing a rise in the number of cases, USA Today reported.
"We certainly are getting some population benefit from our previous cases, but we paid for it," said Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs. "We paid for it with deaths."
The states have all witnessed a drop in the number of vaccinations except for Hawaii.
This is while 29 percent of Republicans who responded to a recent CBS poll said they do not have plans to get vaccinated, while just over 20 percent of independents and five percent of Democrats said the same.
American health experts are warning that relief from the coronavirus pandemic could be fleeting in US regions where few people get vaccinated.
States and cities have, for weeks, been lifting pandemic-related restrictions and mask mandates even indoors.
But last week, the Director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci said the Delta coronavirus variant -- the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India -- is still threatening to spread in the US.
During a White House COVID-19 briefing, Fauci warned that spread of the Delta variant in the United Kingdom could be repeated in the US if people don't get vaccinated.
The warning by Fauci comes as the pace of vaccinations across the US is falling, leaving unvaccinated Americans vulnerable to new variants.
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