Posted on 07/09/2021 8:34:46 AM PDT by entropy12
CNN — A new data analysis identifies clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants.
The analysis by researchers at Georgetown University identified 30 clusters of counties with low vaccination rates and significant population sizes. The five most significant of those clusters are sprawled across large swaths of the southeastern United States and a smaller portion in the Midwest.
The five clusters are largely in parts of eight states, starting in the east in Georgia and stretching west to Texas and north to southern Missouri. The clusters also include parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and are made up of mostly smaller counties but also cities such as Montgomery, Alabama; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Amarillo, Texas.
Most of these states are currently seeing increases in Covid-19 cases.
“Parts of the country are just as vulnerable if not more vulnerable than they were in December, 2020,” said Shweta Bansal, an associate professor of biology at Georgetown University.
Those vulnerable clusters put all of the United States – and to some extent, the world – at risk for going back to 2020, since high-transmission areas can become breeding grounds for Covid-19 variants that could go on to evade Covid-19 vaccines.
“These clusters of unvaccinated people are what is standing in the way of us putting this virus down permanently,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University.
Millions of unvaccinated people in the clusters About one-third of Americans have not received even a single Covid-19 shot – and the Georgetown analysis shows that these people are not evenly spread around the United States.
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our government is misleading our citizens by recommending vaccines to stop the spread of a virus while our government opens the border, invites, welcomes, and freely spreads thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a global pandemic...
There’s that.
But then there’s also the CDC using social media to make all anti-vaxxers look like idiots.
And there’s the CCP wanting all Western vaccines to look bad so thwy can sell more of theirs.
Which side are some of these ‘violent’ anti-vaxxers working for?
It will be the pretense for another Northern invasion of the South.
No consideration of comorbidity of those who practice lesser healthy behaviors?
you just made yourself look pathetic with your joe biden style perverted comment...
our conversation is over...
goodbye...
“when we knew and had the Moderna vaccine already completed in December 2019. The whole point was to bring down Trump.”
Well, it had to go through trials. Which it did before the election.
But, somehow, it’s Emergency Use approval was delayed until after the election.
Would like to know more about that...
People are tired of your lies.
Perhaps you could put some ice on it and call a Whaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance! ...or... maybe call creepy Joe and his cabal of flying vaxx monkeys to jab the crap out of anti covid vax people against their will so that you can feel better about making poor decisions that effect you future health and know that they too will suffer as you will.
“good grief...
you act like joe biden...
pervert... “
What a perfect example LOL!
“our conversation is over...”
ROTFLMAO, like everyone on FR that bothered to read your sad reply.
CNN is totally devoid of scruples.
Now, they are setting the scene for States to hate each other.
They have tried every other way to have fighting and hate among diverse people. What a sick bunch.
I have explained this may be 102 times on this forum...
as to what is the function of vaccine and how they work.
For the 103rd time, any vaccine in history does NOT build a protective dome around you. I wish it could, then voila no more infections if those vaccines could build a plastic dome around you.
I had my smallpox vaccine between age 5 and 6. I got sick with smallpox at age 8. So it did not prevent infection. But what the vaccine probably did for me was to prepare my body on how to fight the virus. May be that is why I did not join the group of 30% smallpox mortality group and still alive and healthy at age 81.
Function of covid vaccine is no different. If you are exposed to a load of virus from an infected person near you, you will inhale the virus into your respiratory system, even if vaccinated. And you can get sick EITHER symptomatic or Asymptomatic depending upon quantity of virus inhaled and how quickly your body can destroy the virus. But with vaccination your body will hopefully already have anti-bodies ready to fight the virus. Without those anti-bodies your body could mount a over-the-top response to that unfamiliar virus and that can damage your lungs permanently from your own white cells. In short, you have much better chance to avoid getting so seriously sick from covid to need ventilators isolated in a hospital.
So, when I am on a cruise ship, I would prefer only vaccinated passengers. Because they are less likely to get seriously sick on the ship and exude large loads of virus material. Vaccinated passengers could still test positive for covid, but with no symptoms or minor symptoms, they will not be exporting huge amounts of virus material in air in a closed ship.
Theoretically
Seriously.
I’m not exceptional for seeing the idiocy of your reply.
Everyone here does.
Are you willing to sacrifice whatever respect you have earned on FR to please a few sad loons?
Very good points.
I think some anti-vaxxers are in it for themselves.
Super ego thing. The more followers, the more perceived power.
It’s all Psychological.
They get a rush from it.
Gotta agree. For many that is the only explanation.
And the more that die from their claims, the better!
Sick stuff.
I don’t disagree with what you said.
But, my view is a little different…….since I’m vaccinated (even though I already had presumed Covid early one) I’m not worried about it.
Just my prospective.
Just like Ted Nugent……..wait until they become sick.
They’ll vanish for sometime and come back as if nothing happen.
If they come back, and I hope they do. I seriously hope they do.
“Why do you think blacks are largely refusing the jab?”
Partially it’s the same reason that a lot of whites don’t want to take it. A worry that it has been rushed and may not be safe.
But there’s also another reason linked with black history and that is a conspiracy tale linking the vaccine and the Tuskegee Experiment. Some of them think that the vaccine is a plot to kill them off.
Seriously.
I’m not exceptional for seeing the idiocy of your reply.
Everyone on Free Republic does.
Theoretical Only for people lacking common sense.
Biden regime ignoring the illegals bringing in covid infections is tantamount to mass murder.
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