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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Do they give a damn about that?
New reports of hemorrhagic fever in some of the Venezuelans crossing over... and Fauci doesn’t care. And Georgetown doesn's care....
Seems for thugs on the left the ‘fun’ is in bullying American citizens - NOT in saving their lives.
Oh, and CNN sucks.
I do not wish smallpox on my worst enemy. It is simply awful disease. Dime size yellow blisters cover every part of the body and very high fevers lasting more than 10 days.
My mother told me I was close to death. After my recovery, first thing she did was to escort me to the temple of Kali to thank the Goddess for sparing my life. The disease in my vernacular is called “dayvee” which translates into Goddess.
TX-what has been happening on the Border?
Darn.
I’m not in any of the five.
The Birmingham stations are really pouring on the fear porn. It’s disgusting.
They will do anything, and I mean anything, to promote the jab. They should be ashamed.
“And looky, looky, guess who they are targeting: “southern United States.””
Yep. The leftists’ favorite target.
Same old, same old.
The left really, really, really wants the vax to be about protecting others rather than about protecting yourself. They want to cast those who reject the vax as selfish and immoral.
Y’know, if this were hemorrhagic fever, or pneumonic plague or something like that, I would have have accepted the jab.
If there were played as “just another flu season’ I might have taken the jab.
But the hysteria over masks, lockdowns, and inoculations with an experimental gene therapy?
Nope. All the alarms go off.
Hey they should make millions of gallons of spike proteins and spay them over the country like agent orange…what could go wrong?…
How can I be at risk if I am vaccinated?
Maybe the residents of the majority-black wards should take a lot of Vitamin D.
Total BS.
lol...no it doesnt. It finishes off the last clusters of unvaccinated folks then herd immunity is reached.
Your house is on ghe list.
Horrors.
These areas will be targeted for the first troop operations.
Endless propaganda, fear mongering and information warfare from democrat party media.
“I’ve seen many threats like that, vulgarities, personal insults and personal accusations from anti-vaxxers here. They obviously have free reign at this site.”
I have seen an occasional abuse get removed by a moderator (even though I don’t report them), but for the most part, we are left to just toughen our own hides to it.
I think we may be entering a phase where it is going to be increasingly glaring that there is no mass die off from vaccines, but that the unvaccinated are being culled. If there is a Delta wave (as seems likely) the disparity based on vaccination will be hard to avoid.
Eventually, that will wear on them, and most will likely slink off and stop posting so much crap. So the coming months will likely be their comeuppance.
That is what I saw when posting about progress building the border wall. Some were certain it was all BS, and nothing would ever happen - and were very vocal and critical of other views.
Admittedly though, this group seems a bit more neurotic.
Maybe they help pay the rent? Everybody has some good.
“A few Neanderthals in the South are threatening the safety of the whole world. What does CNN propose to do about that?”
CNN plans to get everybody upset and arguing!
Seriously, this whole “vaccine hesitancy” is a myth the liberals dreamed up to get “Trump” and “socialist” people mad at each other.
The provision of vaccines, by Biden, to rural areas has been abysmal.
We need ‘walk-in’ shots more than the cities.
And we don’t have them, while all of Biden’s voters do.
But media makes up a way for Biden to put the blame on us for his failure.
“There are certainly more unvaccinated folks in Brooklyn than in any of the rural counties in the cluster”
Maybe, I don’t know.
I do know that urban people have had about a hundred times more chances to be infected and get natural immunity than rural folks have had.
We don’t pass by hundreds of people in a typical day.
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