353 - How Delta and Low Vaccination Rates are Feeding a Deadly Surge of COVID-19 in Missouri

from Public Health On Call · host The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

After a drop in COVID hospitalizations and deaths over the spring and early summer, hospitals in southwest Missouri are at capacity again. Steve Edwards, president and CEO of Cox Health which has six hospitals in the region, talks with Stephanie Desmon about why things are so much more extreme now than they were last winter, how the politicization of public health has choked efforts to make vaccines more accessible, and why this fight is so personal for him.

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