Ravages of COVID surge evident inside Missouri hospital

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life.

It s a scenario playing out time and again at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where 22 people died from the virus in the first 23 days of July. Many other hospitals across Missouri are fighting the same battle, the result of the fast-spreading delta variant invading a state with one of the nation s lowest vaccination rates, especially in rural areas.

via apnews.com

Get the vaccine. If you die from Covid, that’s fewer clicks for me. The vaccine might kill you, but that’s far, far less likely.