Health officials have reported ICU units at 13 hospitals in the state are now full, and have urged people to get vaccinated.
"We're going to have a rough few weeks," Dobbs told a media briefing on Tuesday,"Delta is hitting us very strongly. We anticipate that we are going to continue to put additional pressure on the healthcare system," theIn the month between June 13 and July 11, around nine out of 10 hospitalizations and deaths in Mississippi had been among unvaccinated people, the publication reported, while state officials remain worried at the spike in transmissions.
Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, told "These seem to be more classic COVID symptoms," he said, which included fever, cough and respiratory illness. While not hitting their February peak, hospitalizations between July 5 and July 19 more than doubled from 145 to 419. Meanwhile, the number of those in ICUs has increased over the same period, from 35 to 138,The outlet noted that only a third of people have been fully vaccinated, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, meaning the state has the lowest proportion of people to have had two jabs.
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