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Dr. José Romero, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN's John Avalon on the New Day program on Wednesday , that one of his main fears for his home state, Arkansas, is that there is a widespread spread of covid-19 in school settings.
“We're seeing outbreaks in places that we didn't see last year, so we're seeing closures at daycare centers, we're seeing closures at summer camps.
All of that leads me to believe that in an environment where we don't have strict mitigation, like our schools, it will spread very, very quickly, ”said Romero, who is also Arkansas Secretary of Health.
"The reason I say this is because we now know from experience, from having observed it for the past five or six weeks, that this virus is highly transmissible," he added.
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State doctors are publicly calling on social media for people to get vaccinated as hospitals fill up once again.
Romero noted that Arkansas hospitals now see young, healthy, and unvaccinated people sicker than they have ever seen.
"Our evaluation of these hospitalizations shows that 95% ... to 99.5%, sorry, of all the people who are currently hospitalized, they are not vaccinated," he said.
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The doctor also noted that he believes the reason they don't get vaccinated is multifactorial.
First, they do not see it as a serious disease that can affect them because they are young and healthy, and second is the misinformation "that is spreading through social networks right now."
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Arkansas is one of at least nine states that banned districts from requiring masks in schools, according to a CNN analysis.
In addition, it is the state with the third lowest vaccination rate in its population.
They warn risk of contagion in children by covid-19 0:43
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According to the most recent data, just over 35% of the state's population is fully vaccinated.
Nationally, nearly 49% of the total US population is vaccinated.
Arkansas currently has the highest number of new cases per capita in the country, with the latest daily average of 38 cases per 100,000 people per day.
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