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TexasTowelie

(116,765 posts) Mon Jul 12, 2021, 01:40 AM Jul 2021

Despite second lowest vaccination rate in U.S., Ivey won't seek federal help

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Despite Alabama having the second-lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the nation, hospitalizations rising and the more contagious delta strain quickly becoming dominant, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has no plans to ask for help from newly-formed federal surge response teams.

White House officials on July 1 announced that federal COVID-19 surge response teams were being readied to send into areas with low vaccination rates to help combat the more contagious delta variant, which now makes up about half of all new cases in the U.S.

Jeff Zeits, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, during a July 1 press conference said those teams will be able to boost testing and contact tracing, deploy federal personnel where needed and requested to augment local staff supporting vaccination, testing, and therapeutics work, and would aid with containment “including assisting with epidemiology, data analysis, field investigations, and other public health response work.”

The federal response teams would also focus on increasing vaccinations in communities with low vaccination rates, including through targeted ad campaigns, Zeits said. During a Thursday press briefing Zeits said those teams are already working in Missouri, Nevada, Illinois and Arkansas.

Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2021/07/08/despite-second-lowest-vaccination-rate-in-u-s-ivey-wont-seek-federal-help/
(Alabama Political Reporter)

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Despite second lowest vaccination rate in U.S., Ivey won't seek federal help (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP

Republicans are not only the insurrectionist party, THEY ARE THE STUPID PARTY. brush Jul 2021 #1

Well, bye. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #2

That's b/c vaccines don't work, right? Ask anyone on a ventilator in the hospital, they will mitch96 Jul 2021 #3

I wonder how the healthcare workers in AL feel about this? CrispyQ Jul 2021 #4

brush

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1. Republicans are not only the insurrectionist party, THEY ARE THE STUPID PARTY.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jul 12, 2021, 02:02 AM

Jul 2021

Why turn down federal money for the health of your state's citizens? It's like they don't care if people die. And some of them may be their own family, maybe even them...not wait. I take that back. All the big hypocrites have secretly gotten vaccinated months ago.

They're still afraid to get on the orange asshole's bad side.

See...stupid. trump won't be much of a factor by '24 as he'll either in jail, a demented old man still babbling about a stolen election and the rest of his greatest hits, or dead.