Even as crowds surge back into movie theaters and concert venues, a new surge of COVID-19 cases and a new variant of the disease threaten more illness and potentially thousands of deaths that officials say are unnecessary and avoidable.
According to Dr. Scott Anderson, chief medical officer at Banner’s Boswell and Del Webb hospitals in the Sun Cities, the rising incidence of infections, hospitalizations and deaths is entirely preventable.
“A third wave is preventable,” Anderson told Daily Independent. “These hospitalizations that we’re seeing are preventable. These deaths that we’re seeing are preventable. We are very fortunate and blessed to be in a country where we have the opportunity to even get these vaccines, and there are millions or billions of people around the world who don’t get that opportunity.”
