Despite second lowest vaccination rate in U.S., Ivey won't seek federal help [View all]
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Despite Alabama having the second-lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the nation, hospitalizations rising and the more contagious delta strain quickly becoming dominant, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has no plans to ask for help from newly-formed federal surge response teams.
White House officials on July 1 announced that federal COVID-19 surge response teams were being readied to send into areas with low vaccination rates to help combat the more contagious delta variant, which now makes up about half of all new cases in the U.S.
Jeff Zeits, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, during a July 1 press conference said those teams will be able to boost testing and contact tracing, deploy federal personnel where needed and requested to augment local staff supporting vaccination, testing, and therapeutics work, and would aid with containment “including assisting with epidemiology, data analysis, field investigations, and other public health response work.”
The federal response teams would also focus on increasing vaccinations in communities with low vaccination rates, including through targeted ad campaigns, Zeits said. During a Thursday press briefing Zeits said those teams are already working in Missouri, Nevada, Illinois and Arkansas.
Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2021/07/08/despite-second-lowest-vaccination-rate-in-u-s-ivey-wont-seek-federal-help/
(Alabama Political Reporter)
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