As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, Ohio continues to deal with vaccine hesitation, especially among young people.On Wednesday, Ohio’s top medical experts will be holding a news conference to provide facts and answer questions about vaccine safety. You can watch the live briefing in the player above The conversation will include the Ohio Department of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Bruce Vanderhoff and the chief of staff at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.Ohio doctors say the dangerous delta variant is gathering more steam, so they are watching what they called a troubling trend that could carry the pandemic into the fall and winter months.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned about it Tuesday.Rochelle Walensky, the director, said, “The delta variant now represents 83% of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase from, up from 50% the week of July 3. In some parts of the country, the percentage is even higher, particularly in areas of low vaccination rates.”On Monday, hospitalizations in the Cincinnati region spiked 20%.Kate Schroder of the Health Collaborative said, “35% of the cases in Ohio are driven by the delta variant.”Currently, southwest Ohio is vaccinating roughly 600 people a day. Medical doctors said they understood how people are riding a wave of COVID burnout at concerts, ballgames and gatherings despite what is fast becoming a variant-fueled pandemic.For the moment, Ohio is better off than bordering states like Kentucky and Michigan. But with fewer vaccinations and more hospitalizations, the concern about delta increases as the school year approaches.Dr. Fichtenbaum said the question of whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate children will likely leave parents drawing very strong battle lines.Medical experts believe delta is 50% more efficient at passing from person to person and that it can make youth sicker and leave one out of every three with chronic symptoms like brain fog and heart disease.We’re told the clinical trials for children under 12 could produce a vaccine by December. They’re using lower doses and getting good results.”We’re getting the same immune response using about one-third of the amount of vaccine that we’re needing in even young adults,” Frenck said. “So, I would say that’s very encouraging.”According to local doctors, 99% of the deaths in recent months have been people who were unvaccinated. The same for 97% of the hospitalizations.
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, Ohio continues to deal with vaccine hesitation, especially among young people.
On Wednesday, Ohio’s top medical experts will be holding a news conference to provide facts and answer questions about vaccine safety.
You can watch the live briefing in the player above
The conversation will include the Ohio Department of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Bruce Vanderhoff and the chief of staff at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Ohio doctors say the dangerous delta variant is gathering more steam, so they are watching what they called a troubling trend that could carry the pandemic into the fall and winter months.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned about it Tuesday.
Rochelle Walensky, the director, said, “The delta variant now represents 83% of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase from, up from 50% the week of July 3. In some parts of the country, the percentage is even higher, particularly in areas of low vaccination rates.”
On Monday, hospitalizations in the Cincinnati region spiked 20%.
Kate Schroder of the Health Collaborative said, “35% of the cases in Ohio are driven by the delta variant.”
Currently, southwest Ohio is vaccinating roughly 600 people a day. Medical doctors said they understood how people are riding a wave of COVID burnout at concerts, ballgames and gatherings despite what is fast becoming a variant-fueled pandemic.
For the moment, Ohio is better off than bordering states like Kentucky and Michigan. But with fewer vaccinations and more hospitalizations, the concern about delta increases as the school year approaches.
Dr. Fichtenbaum said the question of whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate children will likely leave parents drawing very strong battle lines.
Medical experts believe delta is 50% more efficient at passing from person to person and that it can make youth sicker and leave one out of every three with chronic symptoms like brain fog and heart disease.
We’re told the clinical trials for children under 12 could produce a vaccine by December. They’re using lower doses and getting good results.
“We’re getting the same immune response using about one-third of the amount of vaccine that we’re needing in even young adults,” Frenck said. “So, I would say that’s very encouraging.”
According to local doctors, 99% of the deaths in recent months have been people who were unvaccinated. The same for 97% of the hospitalizations.