Monday, September 13, 2021https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-hospital-pause-delivering-babies-after-staffers-quit-rather-n1279001The Lewis County Health System is working on "contingency plans" in case it faces more mass resignations that put other essential services at risk.https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/13/1036593269/coronavirus-alabama-43-icus-at-capacity-ray-demoniaRay DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/cnn-poll-coronavirus-vaccine-mandates/index.htmlAmericans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it.https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-study-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-29-times-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-with-covid.htmlThe new CDC study also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than vaccinated people.https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/delta-caused-more-severe-breakthrough-covid-cases-than-expected-cdc-says/3265890/A new CDC study out Friday provides what may be the most jolting evidence yet of the threat the highly contagious delta variant may pose to the fully vaccinated, particularly as it usurped every other COVID-19 strain to dominate American cases.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-10/survey-many-sdpd-officers-say-they-would-rather-quit-than-comply-with-vaccine-mandateThe results come as the San Diego police union pushes back against a city vaccination mandate. Union president suggests city may consider testing option.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/vaccine-mandates-republicans.html"Mississippi, which has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the nation, has consistently led the United States in childhood vaccinations - a point of pride for its health officials and many of its lawmakers. Alabama, similar to Mississippi, also refuses to acknowledge “philosophical, moral or ethical” exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccinations."