Here's a roundup of recent news about the pandemic and immunization efforts:
Many hospital workers try to get out of vaccination by claiming a religious exemption, saying it's wrong to take a vaccine developed with a cell line that began with a fetus aborted in the 1960s. In an attempt to fight vaccine misinformation, an Arkansas hospital system now requires staff to swear off common medications such as Tylenol in order to get a religious exemption. That's because those medications were also developed using fetal cell lines. In related news, a Texas megachurch preacher and Trump devotee said this week that there is no "credible religious argument" against getting the coronavirus vaccination. The head of the nation's largest Baptist seminary, a leading conservative, says likewise.
As Arizona's biggest hospitals fill with Covid-19 patients, small-town doctors say it's increasingly difficult to find beds there for critical rural patients. Oregon hospitals are so stretched thin that they've been forced to postpone surgeries and cancer care.
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