A group of 75 doctors have staged a mass walkout to protest the rise of unvaccinated Covid-19 patients.

The doctors in South Florida walked out of their hospital on Monday, August 23, to protest the surge in unvaccinated Covid-19 patients who they are having to treat, New York Post reports.

"We are exhausted. Our patience and resources are running low and we need your help," Dr. Rupesh Dharia from Palm Beach Internal Medicine told WFLA reports.

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The current outbreak in Florida is one of the worst in the US, and it is predominantly the result of the more infectious Delta variant.

One of the doctors who participated in the walkout, JT Snarkski, told MSNBC: "It's incredibly frustrating because we know the vaccines are safe and effective and it's people that go out and talk against them that really go against physicians and medicine and science. It's not the message we want to get across to people.

"Vaccines are safe and we need to get our communities vaccinated."

Fox News reports that the majority of hospitals in Florida are almost at capacity in their intensive care units because of Covid-19 cases.

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Florida mom Lisa Brandon of Jacksonville lost both of her sons to the virus in a 24-hour period, and she is now encouraging others to get vaccinated.

WJAX-TV reports that she regrets not encouraging her sons Aaron Jaggi, 35, and Free Jaggi, 41, to get the jab prior to them contracting Covid-19 in late July.

"I wish I could have made them do it. And now it's too late," she said.

Free passed away from the virus on August 12 and his brother Aaron lost his life just 12 hours later.

"I think they would be alive today if they would have gotten their shot," Brandon said.

She is now hoping that speaking publically about her family's tragedy will stop others from making the same mistake.

"It's a parent's worst nightmare," she said of losing her sons. "The only reason I'm doing this is to put the word out to please get vaccinated."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hit with a suspension from Twitter for saying that vaccines are "failing".

The Georgia Republican Representative, 47, was suspended from the social media platform for a week after she tweeted on Monday (August 9) to say that the Food and Drug Administration "should not approve the covid vaccines" because they are "failing", CNN reports.

The tweet was subsequently flagged as misleading information, and Greene's account received a one-week suspension. Her account is now only available in a "read-only" mode.

A link was also provided on the post to allow Twitter users to "learn what health officials say about preventative measures and Covid-19."

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Per CNN, a spokesperson for Twitter said that the tweet "was labeled in line with our COVID-19 misleading information policy. The account will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules."

"These vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus and neither do masks," Greene wrote. "There are too many reports of infection and spread of COVID-19 among vaccinated people."

This is not the first time that Greene has found herself in hot water with Twitter, CNN reports.

She received a 12-hour suspension back in January for spreading misinformation about Georgia Senate runoff elections, which was deemed in violation of Twitter's civic integrity policy.

The representative was also suspended in March. However, Greene put this down to a technical error on Twitter's part, according to CNN.

Greene was banned again for 12 hours in July for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines.

Twitter's Covid-19 misinformation policy states that users will receive a one-week suspension if they spread misinformation about the virus four times.

However, if they violate the policy more than five times, they can be banned from the site permanently.

CNN reports that the social media website did not confirm how many times Greene has officially violated their policy.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that just over half of all Americans have been vaccinated at the time of writing.

According to the Independent, a decrease in vaccinations and the prevalence of the new Delta variant of the virus have led to an increase in Covid-19 infections since June.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, claims that he ''doesn't understand'' why all 50 American states aren't under full lockdown in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic.

In a recent interview with CNN, America's top infectious disease expert appeared to bemoan the fact that the American government isn't taking the outbreak seriously enough.

Dr. Fauci recently warned Americans that the coronavirus was 'going to get worse before it gets better': 

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On the subject of a full lockdown, Fulci stated: "I don't understand why that's not happening... You know, the tension between federally-mandated versus states' rights to do what they want is something I don't want to get into. But if you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that."

He also stressed the importance of a long-term lockdown, claiming that easing restrictions too early could lead to more preventable deaths, stating: "If you back off, and you don't mitigate, there is a possibility that number [of deaths] will go up."
He added: "And that is the worst possible thing in the world you want to see, and that's the reason why I am so adamant about when we say we have got to follow those guidelines, you really got to take it seriously."

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However, during a White House Taskforce briefing on Wednesday, President Trump claimed that America was ahead of the game on the issue of the disease, stating: "We’re attacking the virus in every front with social distancing, economic support for our workers, rapid medical intervention, and very serious innovation and banning dangerous foreign travel that threatens the health of our people."

Donald Trump has taken to social media to claim that the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States has been "exaggerated".

Taking to Twitter on Sunday (January 3), the outgoing president wrote to his 88.6 million followers:

"The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov’s ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low.

"'When in doubt, call it Covid.' Fake News!"

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Per the CDC's Covid-19 Data Tracker (found HERE), the most recent numbers as of this writing state that there have been 20,061,818 total confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the US, resulting in 346,925.

Just minutes after Trump tweeted his baseless claims, Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC's This Week Co-anchor Martha Raddatz: "To have 300,000 cases in a given day, and between two and 3,000 deaths a day is just terrible."

Per ABC News, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases added:

"There's no running away from the numbers, Martha. It's something that we absolutely got to grasp and get our arms around and turn that inflection down by very intensive adherence to the public health measures, uniformly, throughout the country, with no exception."

When asked for his thoughts on President Trump's tweet, Fauci said: "The deaths are real deaths.

"All you need to do is go out into the trenches. Go to the hospitals and see what the health care workers are dealing with. They are under very stressful situations in many areas of the country. The hospital beds are stretched, people are running out of beds, running out of trained personnel who are exhausted."

"That's real," he continued. "That's not fake. That's real."

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As stated on the official website for The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

"CDC reports COVID-19 case counts, deaths, and laboratory testing numbers daily online. Data on the COVID-19 website and CDC’s COVID Data Tracker are based on the most recent numbers reported by states, territories, and other jurisdictions."

Reporting on its "Accuracy of Data", the CDC states that Covid-19 cases are "voluntarily reported" by health departments across the US.

It adds: "As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths." More information on the CDC Covid-19 data can be found HERE.

Per The Guardian, Trump first publicly referred to the coronavirus pandemic as the "Chinese virus" back in March, in a tweet condemned at the time by China's foreign ministry.

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Additionally, as of this writing, the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reports that there have been 20,430,802 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US, resulting in the deaths of 350,214.

On Sunday evening, Donald Trump took to Twitter to retweet a user who called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired. This is the latest in a string of signs that suggest there is tension between the two figures in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tweet in question, which was originally posted by DeAnna Lorraine - a Republican candidate for Congress running for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's seat - appeared to be in response to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' comments on CNN on Sunday Morning.

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When CNN's State of the Union host, Jake Tapper, asked Fauci whether the US should have responded to the crisis quicker, he agreed, but did not overtly criticize the President. "I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated," he said.

Lorraine then tweeted: "Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could've saved more lives,” the tweet Trump retweeted from Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large. Time to #FireFauci".

Trump retweeted Lorraine’s comment, adding “Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN.”

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Per Forbes, Fauci has become one of the nation's most respected and trusted advisors during the pandemic, having appeared on television many times to update the country on the state of the outbreak. According to an April 8th Quinnipiac poll, 78 percent of the country approved of Fauci's handling, with just seven percent disapproving.