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Why are COVID Cases Spiking? Again…
American Thinker.com ^ | Brian C. Joondeph, MD

Posted on 11/15/2021 2:29:05 AM PST by Kaslin

Watching the news, one sees constant stories about COVID numbers rising, yet again, now almost two years into this pandemic, with COVID hospitalizations in some states higher than they have ever been except for the spike last December. In my state of Colorado, the test positivity rate is almost 10 percent, with 1 in 48 infected and if the current trend continues, this will be the worst COVID spike the state has seen.

On the surface, that doesn’t make sense, since nearly 80 percent of eligible Coloradans have received at least one vaccine dose, suggesting the vaccines are not working as well as they should or as advertised, or that vaccine immunity is waning, hence the push for booster injections.

Scarier still is that Colorado officials reinstated “crisis standards of care” for hospital staffing, allowing hospitals and other facilities to stretch limited personnel and use volunteers, including National Guard and family members, to help care for hospitalized patients. Colorado hospitals are already turning away patients based on an executive order by Gov. Jared Polis.

Neighboring New Mexico is in the same boat, also instituting “crisis standards of care.” Their case counts have climbed 19 percent over the past two weeks.

ICU beds are in desperately short supply, with fewer than 100 beds currently available in Colorado as reported by the Denver Post. Are we headed to a situation where patients will be treated in hallways or sent away from overcrowded hospitals to fend for themselves? COVID made its debut in America in March 2020, now 20 months later, when we should be reaching herd immunity, the situation as dire as it was in the beginning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: ade; colorado; covid; covid19; vaccines
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To: Kaslin

If COVID cases are spiking again, it is partly on account of illegal aliens being secretly farmed out all over the country without testing them and/or quarantining them. DUH!!!!


41 posted on 11/15/2021 10:27:22 AM PST by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Sons of Union Vets

Exactly.


42 posted on 11/15/2021 10:33:29 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: RideForever

Let’s see...

75,000 divided by 50 states equals (more or less) 1,500 dead folks.

Each...


43 posted on 11/15/2021 6:36:37 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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