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The United States has the Highest COVID Infection Rate in the World

With 20 Million New Infections, 6% of the total American population have been COVID infected in just the Month of January 2022 alone. Due to incomplete record keeping, that total could be much higher than what has been confirmed. The COVID death rate is also said to be underestimated.

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John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center 1/27/2022, 4:21 PM
US Totals:
Confirmed Infections 7 3,357,903
Deaths 878,128
Missouri Positivity Rate: 33.3%

John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center 1/28/2022, 8:21 PM
US Totals:
Confirmed Infections 74,065,960
Deaths 882,294
Missouri Positivity Rate: 32.3%

1/29/2022
Missouri Positivity Rate: 31.0%

1/30/2022, 4 PM
Missouri Positivity Rate: 31.1%

1/31/2022, 4 PM
Missouri Positivity Rate: 29.1%

John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center 2/01/2022, 4:21 PM
US Totals:
Confirmed Infections Totals: 75,350,359
Deaths 890,770
Missouri Positivity Rate: 28.4%

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Increase in COVID Deaths

“Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall's delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been climbing since mid-November. Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation. And even though it causes less severe disease for most people, the fact that it is more transmissible means more people are falling ill and dying.

"At one urban hospital in Kansas, 60 COVID-19 patients have died in January and more than 200 are currently being treated. University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, posted a video from its morgue showing bagged bodies in a refrigeration unit and a worker marking one white body bag with the word “COVID.”

“Dr. Katie Dennis, a pathologist who does autopsies for the health system, said the morgue has been at or above capacity almost every day in January, ‘which is definitely unusual.’”
Associated Press

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“Missouri is ranked one of the top five LEAST Safe states from COVID.”

“The ranking combines data on vaccination rates, death rates from the virus and other factors like positive testing, virus transmission and hospitalization.”
Kansas City Star

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Missouri Vaccination Rate Remains Low

“About 55% of Missourians are fully vaccinated, but the pace is slowing. In Missouri, many residents are touting their personal freedom to refuse the shot. Republican lawmakers claiming vaccine mandates amount to government overreach have fought back against local officials and public health departments. In more than two dozen counties, fewer than one-third of people are fully vaccinated. Republicans, evangelical Christians and those who live in rural areas are less likely to get the vaccine — and Missouri has a lot of them.”
St Louis Public Radio BBC Service

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Kansas & Missouri School Superintendents Leave

“Some 200 Missouri, Kansas school superintendents may quit amid COVID turmoil, hostile parents. Replacing them won’t be easy because fewer qualified candidates are willing to step into the inhospitable arena that public education has become. 'The number is alarming,” said Dan Domenech, executive director of the national School Superintendents Association. 'We have superintendents who are being threatened, whose families are being threatened, and it’s so bad that some of them have had to get security just to walk to their car. The exodus of superintendents is contributing to a larger education workforce shortage among cafeteria workers, bus drivers and teachers. It is going to take a kinder community working together to fix this, because nearly 50 million children attending the nation’s public schools depend on it.’”
St. Louis Public Radio

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