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Delta mutation has become the dominant species in Korea as well, but the United States, which receives 100,000 patients a day, is actually at war with the delta mutation. Where the situation is most serious, we asked the medical staff about the most effective response.



Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung of Washington conducted a video interview.



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a hospital in Missouri, USA,



a young man wearing an auxiliary respirator breathes heavily.



After refusing to receive the corona vaccine, he eventually became infected and was hospitalized.



[COVID-19 hospitalized patient (31 years old): I strongly refused to be vaccinated. Because it was a very conservative family. But, it made my son get the vaccine.]



Missouri, with a vaccination rate of only 42%, is flooding hospitals with patients due to the spread of the delta mutation.



Missouri's large hospital, Cox Health, had 187 hospitalized patients on the 1st, the highest since the corona crisis, and 27 critically ill patients died within a week.



[Trotman / Cox Health Infectious Disease Specialist: (due to the delta mutation) hospitalized patients have definitely changed from the elderly to the young. What's new is that compared to last year, inpatients end up on ventilators, and their symptoms get worse faster. (Do you think this crisis can be described as a pandemic of unvaccinated people?) Surely it is. Almost everyone we care for in hospitals is unvaccinated.]



Although there are very few breakthrough infections that can be transmitted even after receiving the vaccine, he says, the symptoms are not severe.



Even if you have been vaccinated, wearing a mask is essential because there is a high risk of spreading the virus to others if you are infected with the delta mutation.



[Edward / Cox Health CEO: It is a new knowledge that even if you receive a vaccine, you can spread the virus if you are infected with the delta mutation. It's dangerous. So it means you have to wear a mask.]



Vaccines and masks, these two, prove once again that humanity is the most powerful weapon against the delta mutation.



 (Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, video editing: Kim Ho-jin, screen provided: CoxHealth)