The Dr Julien J. Cavanagh did not go through four roads on Friday, on the show The game in overtime, to explain the wave that is currently hitting the southern United States.
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“I know that Quebeckers love Florida very much, but I want to look my Quebec friends in the eye and tell them tonight, don’t come to Florida even when the border reopens because the viral circulation is such that even vaccinated, you will expose to be contaminated, so it’s dangerous to come to Florida right now, ”he said.
The Dr Cavanagh divides his time between Boston and Atlanta on the east coast and finds that the vaccination rate and health measures play a very important role in the severity of the spread of the Delta variant.
“I see the difference because here in Georgia, 50% vaccination coverage, we are at 75% in Massachusetts and we do not have the same viral circulation at all and in addition, the populations of New England adopt the sanitary measures. “
As a result, the Delta complicates the task of the entire health network, which finds itself at the heart of this new wave.
“The situation is very serious, Georgia is facing a wave that is amplifying every day. We were a little spared, but here this wave is coming from the south and the west and the number of hospitalized patients is increasing every day, ”explained Dr Julien J. Cavanagh.
Floors and emergencies fill up very quickly in areas further south.
“It is not because there are all these patients with COVID that the patients stop having myocardial infarctions, strokes and therefore it is a deterioration of the chain of care that is taking place. to occur […] there are people waiting on stretchers outside. We are there ”, recalled D.r Cavanagh.
The doctor hopes high vaccination rates in northern states and Canada will slow the spread of the virus and the Delta variant in the coming weeks.
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