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Missouri county requests funds for off-site hospital amid COVID-19 spike By Nathaniel Weixel - 07/15/21 06:05 PM EDT Officials in Springfield, Mo., are requesting state funds to establish an "alternate care site" for COVID-19 patients to help relieve the pressure on overwhelmed local hospitals. The coronavirus has made a comeback in Missouri, and the highly contagious delta variant in particular has been linked to case spikes that are among the highest per capita in the country. On Wednesday, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department and the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management submitted a funding request for an alternate care site to the state. The facility would be used for transitional care for stable COVID-19 patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refers to alternate care sites as "non-traditional environments, such as converted hotels or mobile field medical units." They are often called field hospitals. There were 231 patients being treated for COVID-19 in Greene County hospitals as of Wednesday, the health department said; 104 of those are in critical care and 61 are on ventilators. Greene County is averaging more than 196 cases per day, and "the increase in severe illness is projected to outpace hospital capacity," officials said in a statement. The cost of the alternate care facility is not yet known, nor is it clear where it could be established or when it would be fully functional. Coronavirus cases nationally have more than doubled since June, but the increase is especially sharp in areas with low vaccination rates. In Greene County, only 40 percent of eligible residents have been fully vaccinated. The county was one of several hot spots officially labeled by the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. Tags Missouri Coronavirus COVID-19 hospitals Covid-19 vaccination

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Sweden Chief Epidemiologist warns against ‘far-reaching conclusions’ about Delta Variant… Posted by Kane on July 31, 2021 3:09 pm NEWS JUNKIES -- CHECK OUT OUR HOMEPAGE SOURCE Mask-free Sweden nears zero daily Covid deaths As the CDC urges Americans to mask up against the Delta variant, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist has argued that more data is needed about the strain’s infectiousness. His mask-free nation is hovering at zero Covid deaths per day. Anders Tegnell said on Friday that there was “a lot we do not know” about Delta and cautioned against drawing “far-reaching conclusions” about the coronavirus strain. He noted that the variant had been circulating in Sweden “for quite some time” with little effect, particularly in high-risk settings such as nursing homes. It is difficult to say how contagious Delta is, as when it comes to chickenpox, we have been able to follow the disease for several years. The infectivity of Delta seems to be very uneven – in some cases, one person infects a hundred people, then we have other occasions when an infected person does not infect anyone at all,” he told Sweden’s Aftonbladet. In separate remarks, he pointed to the fact that one-third of the country’s municipalities reported zero new Covid cases over the past week. And while US health authorities are pressing Americans in “high transmission” areas to mask up, Sweden dropped its last remaining mask recommendation – related to public transport – on July 1. While Sweden’s public health agency has supported measures such as social distancing and remote working, it has no recommendations for the use of face coverings in public spaces. Reviled by the media for refusing to impose harsh lockdowns, Sweden’s less draconian approach to the health crisis appears to be paying off: The Scandinavian nation has recorded a total of eight Covid-linked deaths so far this month, an average of 0.25 deaths per day. Daily hospitalizations have also hovered near zero in July: On most days this month, the country saw between 0-2 Covid-cases requiring hospital treatment. At the same time, daily cases have fallen sharply since April. Sweden Covid Report