‘Don’t Wait Until You’re In A Hospital Bed’: Baltimore Officials Urge Residents To Get Vaccinated

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore metropolis officials urged residents to get vaccinated arsenic coronavirus cases proceed to turn owed to the Delta variant.

“We cannot accent the urgency and value of getting the vaccine,” Mayor Brandon Scott said. “Getting vaccinated is the quality betwixt beingness and death.”

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Every coronavirus-related decease successful June was a idiosyncratic who was unvaccinated, Scott said.

The metropolis is seeing an mean of 16 caller cases a day. The summation is tied to the Delta variant, which is simply a mutation of the archetypal COVID-19 virus. Officials said it’s 200% much transmissible.

Mayor Scott: We cannot accent the urgency and value of getting the vaccine… getting vaccinated is the quality betwixt beingness and death. @wjz pic.twitter.com/90dVvZlPFa

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) July 26, 2021

Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa said successful immoderate parts of the city, 70% of residents stay unvaccinated.

“Please don’t hold until you’re successful a infirmary bed,” Dzirasa said.

The metropolis continues to big dozens of vaccination clinics.

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You tin spell to covax.baltimorecity.gov to register

CBS Baltimore Staff