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Throughout the first months after the pandemic hit the banks of the United States, some states (including New York and New Jersey) took the weight of new infections. But in recent weeks,Covid has been to sting Throughout the country, hitting the west and the south particularly strong. The coronavirus highlights problems of health inequality, as counties with fewer resources are in trouble dealing with the influx of patients. In an interview with NBC News,Doctors in Indianola, Mississippi-In the Mississippi Delta - detailed the way Covid is overwhelming the community. An epidemiologist said that Coronavirus was so murderer, he begins to look like "natural selection".

Among the health workers presented in the article are a married coupleChad Dowell, Do, andKelsey Dowell, DO, who work in the Sunflower County Hospital in Indianola, a city of a population of about 10,000 inhabitants that the publication describes as "impoverished". At the end of May, every type of business across the state was allowed to reopen, like Gov.Tate Reeves Lock controls raised. Dowells told NBC that very few people adhered to hide wear and social distance and that many residents expressed skepticism on the existence of social media virus. Meanwhile, by data collected byThe New York Times,Mississippi recorded 1,230 new cases on July 16th Alone, bringing their total to nearly 40,000 people. At least 1,308 people died.

On July 13,Reeves issued a mask mandate For 13 Mississippi counties, including sunflower county, as indicated by a local ABC Outlet. But health workers have stated that hospitals were already overwhelmed by this point. Both Dowells have told desperate fitness stories to find beds in neighboring hospitals for COVID patients than the Sunflower South County County could not accept; And the hospital would only have a nurse on 11 Covid patients, some nights, partly due to nurses themselves becoming sick. The distribution should be a nurse for two ICU patients.

Satwinder Singh, MD, which is the only epidemiologist of the whole of Mississippi's Delta, told NBC News that there is a serious delay in the region, resulting in health workers who suspect they are disaborated sick to confirm their diagnoses. He also fears that there are many, many asymptomatic people who have not been tested and unconsciously disseminate the disease. Singh says that the total number of infected people is "maybe 10 times more than we count now."

NBC News notes that, in the Delta, there are high health rates that disease control and prevention centers (CDC) indicate that the establishment ofhigher risk people For a serious case of coronavirus, such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity. This, as well as their relative lack of staffing and community resistance to take care of precautionary measures, means that the virus will only become more murderer, said Singh. And the most vulnerable populations will be the most affected.

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He warned that Mississippi can reach a "flock immunity" in the most matured way possible. "Only strong people or people who take it seriously - will survive, and many, many others perish," Singh said. "I hate to say it, but we are almost at natural selection at this point."

And for more experts,Everyone infected by Covid has this one thing in common, says Fauci.