{"id":36876,"date":"2021-06-24T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36876"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:51:50","slug":"missouri-becomes-newest-covid-19-hot-spot-as-variant-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36876","title":{"rendered":"Missouri becomes newest COVID-19 hot spot as variant spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri has become the latest COVID-19 hot spot in the U.S., recording the country\u2019s highest rate in new infections, a surge health officials have largely attributed to the highly transmissible delta variant and vaccine hesitancy.<\/p>\n<p>In Missouri, which reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrbmspv_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a=&amp;b=40208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrbmspv_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a%3D%26b%3D40208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624662000100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGJ-rO_5FqL-QmaHsC28AjCYjHJKQ\">more than 800 new cases<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, just about 44 percent of residents have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, with 38 percent fully vaccinated, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mntsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqcnbpt_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a=&amp;b=40208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mntsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqcnbpt_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a%3D%26b%3D40208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624662000100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEl6Iheli9OCA0071dUlGK8g1juSw\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rgnwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrcgtlg_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a=&amp;b=40208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rgnwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrcgtlg_zlwrsspmpkrlmbswpmpd.html?a%3D%26b%3D40208&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624662000100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYraN66dWrk5oDbCx9q_j9c4vuyg\">USA Today<\/a>\u00a0noted Wednesday that most southern and northern counties in the state have not even reached close to 40 percent of citizens with at least one shot.<\/p>\n<p>In one Missouri county, just 13 percent have received at least one dose.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy and Cox South hospitals in the southwestern Missouri city of Springfield had a combined 153 patients hospitalized on Tuesday, an increase from just 31 a few months ago, according to USA Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri has become the latest COVID-19&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36877,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions\/36877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}