Lauran Neergaard, AP, July 21, 2021 Reports of athletes, lawmakers and others getting the coronavirus despite vaccination may sound alarming but top health experts point to overwhelming evidence that the shots are doing exactly what they are supposed to: dramatically …
Statistics show the stark risks of not getting vaccinated against COVID-19
Meredith Deliso, ABC News, July 19, 2021 As top health officials warn that COVID-19 has become a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” recent figures from states and cities throughout the United States reveal the extent to which the virus is impacting people who …
Internal report: Tennessee vaccine program has ‘critical gaps’ as COVID-19 rebounds
Brett Kelman, The Tennessean, July 19, 2021 The Tennessee Department of Health has “critical gaps” in its vaccination program after two highly placed employees moved to other jobs in June, leaving the agency hamstrung as vaccination rates sputter and infections rise, …
Nashville Schools Continuing With Vaccination Events, Despite Turmoil At State Health Department
Caroline Eggers, NPR, July 19, 2021 Metro Nashville Public Schools will still require all students to have up-to-date immunizations this year, and the district is hosting three back-to-school vaccination events at local middle schools, despite the firing of one of the state’s …
Almost all Vanderbilt ICU COVID patients are unvaccinated, from rural counties
Gerald Harris, WKRN-TV, July 16, 2021 Cases, deaths and hospitalizations are rising in Tennessee as the Delta Covid-19 strain threatens the state. The state’s largest hospital is seeing an uptick in intensive care unit patients. At Vanderbilt, behind the walls …