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While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in some states, especially in the Midwest and New England.

Two years into the outbreak, COVID-19 has killed over 780,000 Americans, and deaths are running at about 900 per day.

“This fourth wave, I can pretty clearly state, has hit Minnesota harder than any of the previous ones,” said Dr. Timothy Johnson, president of the Minnesota chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Pauline Park, who takes care of critically ill patients at the University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor, called the latest surge “heartbreaking.” One COVID-19 patient, a woman in her 20s, died the week of Thanksgiving. Another, a mother with young children, is on a machine built to take over for her lungs.

“It’s just hard because it does feel like that we are actually going backwards in time, even though we have these vaccines, which are such a great weapon for us,” she said.

 

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Take all vaccines off the market at the end of the year... No further treatment for unvaxed.. They do not deserve it

Oh you mean the people that were vaccinated and given the Delta virus vaccine? Yup I said it.. Let's get this right.. there are more vaccinated people sick than unvaccinated..facts.. Just the media is in denial about it because then it might look bad on JB..

Following the same pattern as the Spanish Flu in 1918 History pandemic Omicron

and the GOP is rooting for this

Wow, you're really stretching. Maine's hospitalization rate in your story is 0.02% of the population there. Try harder.

Isn’t New England the most highly vaccinated area?

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