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TIRED

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To the editor:

I am again writing to ask Logan County residents and those of the surrounding counties to please wear your masks, to stay home if you are sick, and to be vaccinated if you can.

Our local businesses are hurting due to staff out sick and others who are medically challenged who can’t safely go out in public due to the COVID 19 risks. School will be starting again soon and teachers will be out, students won’t be in class to learn and our daycare providers may not be open due to cases/exposures.

Our case load is jumping here the last 2 weeks very reminiscent of November 2020. Just a few days ago our rate was 840 per 100,000 people and our test positivity for COVID 19 is 10.8%. We have had several hundred new cases just in the last few weeks.

Our medical system is being overwhelmed. We have patients with strokes, pneumonia, and heart attacks sitting in the ER before they can get a bed. Physicians are calling multiple hospitals to find a spot for patients who sometimes are going over 2 to 3 hours’ drive from Lincoln to get care.

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The same is sometimes true for COVID patients. Our ICU beds are limited in Sangamon and Mclean Counties. We have staffing shortages throughout the region and the country due to illness in staff or family members.

I am tired of wearing a mask too but do it to protect others—my patients, my family, my neighbors and strangers as well as to protect me.

It is the RIGHT thing to do.

I am vaccinated and boosted. The vaccines are safe and the risks that are present with them are less than the risks that come with the disease. I worry about the long term effects on our brains, hearts, lungs and nervous system and am definitely seeing these things in clinic each week and have a number of people with long haul syndrome. I have lost patients to COVID 19 and watched others suffer with the after effects. It is devastating. ALL OF US should mask when out in public and stay home when sick. Do it out of respect for others---please!

Melissa Cox MD
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

[Posted January 3, 2022]

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