11093 Tags
delta
1 Article
!['Soooo frustrating:' Infighting, bad predictions hindered Missouri response to Delta surge](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2021/10/27/mike-parsons-meeting.png.800x600_q85_crop.png)
‘Soooo frustrating:’ Infighting, bad predictions hindered Missouri response to Delta surge
by
Betsy Ladyzhets and
Tessa Weinberg
Dr. Robin Trotman had an inkling his Springfield hospital system was experiencing a harbinger of what was to come. It was late June, and CoxHealth was seeing an influx of COVID-19 patients who had already been vaccinated, as the highly contagious Delta variant spread unchecked through the region.