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The state of missouri has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country and tonight

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...experiencing a surgeon covered nineteen hospitalization some hospitals

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are even being forced to put out emergency calls for ventilators joining us now is eric

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frederick chief administrative officer

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at mercy springfield hospital thank you so much for your time tonight to appreciate.

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Missouri is part of a group of four states where the delta varying accounts for

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a staggering eighty one percent of new

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...cases you've admitted dozens of new code patients in the past few days do you have

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the resources at this point right now to deal with this influx of patients.

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Who...you for...last week...that we're going to be running short on some specific

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equipment supplies so...large health ministry here in the midwest and

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...in saint louis and other areas and we're able to are we supplies we knew we

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were going to need that in that as...today we stand...well supplied...that

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...so we have hospital and you...we never thought we would be back here but

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clearly little vaccination rates are feeling some of this friend where

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...saying as far as why they aren't getting a vaccine?

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So, we...conversation...patience now they're saying they wish to

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...had some of those stories are hospital but I think people still feel like this is either

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not serious enough to warrant getting a vaccine there's distrust of the

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vaccine of people feel that as long as it's under emergency authorization that the

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...see...longer or fully approved...get that

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...it's in a vaccine and there are some people that we node you see this is more

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about personal choice and ...position is they would never take a vaccine and...we ask

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...they dig in so it's a variety of answers but what all these

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who's very low vaccination rates and high hospitalizations for us right now and

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as you see the rest of the country now approaching some semblance of normal c major cities like new york

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dropping all covered restrictions people going back to work what's your explanation for the

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disparity is it entirely explained by those who are just not getting vaccinated.

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We...I think we...look at that and draw the direct correlation of the load actually insurance

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and hospitalizations vaccines proven to be effective against narrowly

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that illness but hospitalization so there are certain are people that are fully vaccinated

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they get hospitalized although for us that's been less than four percent of our converted admissions

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...even if their hospitals they're, they're not as sick we've not had fully vaccinate people that are ice

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use level or having a higher level of care that you can...we just

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...it's effective against getting sick it's affected begins serious illness in hospitals

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...less than four percent of those getting admitted have been vaccinated that's right

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correct and what's the morale like for your doctors and nurses there.

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They'll team is tired and we just went through this barely six months ago we...the

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...I think the difference that was the platform

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...unsure and now we have something in hand...can help prevent this and

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it's really personal choice that's preventing us from getting there and that's very frustrating I think is the

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...system, you know, we look forward and what I make sure

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...our took that step today by announcing that were mandating coworker vaccines across

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...ministry that's close to forty three thousand coworkers across multiple states

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...multiple clinics and hospitals treating might meeting as a large organization

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hope others will follow us...and especially the businesses and...care systems I'll say,

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yeah, that's the right direction...continue to educate influence

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...the path for the can-you take those chords vaccinations because they're available

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...no reason to get the other...that and he said specifically

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personal choice but does it all appear to be political as far as people who are deciding not to get

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vaccinated...this clarify...we know that there's...segment of size that can build

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...medical reasons for that and we...encourage people...their physician declare five but what

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you see locally and we go through some research...hospital association...there is a segment

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...the group of this community has politicized and they feel like you know,

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this issomeone else's plan or they have police about the vaccine...with it this is

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...not true and they just...no,

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matter what we say in my mind it's, you know,

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this is a vaccine that was brought to market by a republican...being delivered by

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a democratic president's it's the bipartisan effort ever seen one of the

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...got the vaccine hope...find it I don't understand how

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...a one-sided and say this is the issue but

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...see that are you if there was another rest of the country can take from what's happening in missouri right

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...to encourage

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vaccines because this could be your community if you look at our vaccination rates and compared

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hero vaccination rates but that's the I think that's the case study that

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...representing the entire country right now we're busy this time

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years busy community want people to enjoybeing together and do the things they want

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...do but vaccinate yourself that's really the way for so...with lower

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vaccination rates so look at us or...that high vaccination rates and you

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can pretty easily...that vaccines...we go for perhaps people

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are taking note of what is happening there and show me state of missouri versus springfield hospital

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chief administration officer eric project...thank you so much free time tonight thank you appreciate your...