{"id":662394,"date":"2021-08-19T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662394"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:06:01","slug":"obama-variant-strikes-marthas-vineyard-super-spreader-birthday-bash-overwhelms-islands-only-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-variant-strikes-marthas-vineyard-super-spreader-birthday-bash-overwhelms-islands-only-emergency-room\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Obama Variant\u2019 Strikes Martha\u2019s Vineyard: Super-Spreader Birthday Bash Overwhelms Island\u2019s Only Emergency Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-variant-strikes-marthas-vineyard-super-spreader-birthday-bash-overwhelms-islands-only-emergency-room%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/obama-variant.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Obama variant&#8221; of COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard&#8217;s only hospital and threatening to overrun its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks after former president Barack Obama, 60, threw himself a &#8220;super spreader&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/guest-column-obama-birthday\/\">birthday party<\/a>&nbsp;at his $17.5 million island estate, the Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Hospital is reporting its highest number of COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Vineyard Gazette<\/em>, the hospital has three patients hospitalized with COVID-19, a fourth who is being monitored for symptoms, and a fifth who last week&nbsp;had to be airlifted to Boston in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the highest amount of COVID-positive patient activity that we&#8217;ve had since the onset of the pandemic,&#8221; Clair Seguin, chief nurse and head of hospital operations, <a href=\"https:\/\/vineyardgazette.com\/news\/2021\/08\/18\/its-emergency-room-jammed-hospital-feels-impact-case-spike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters on Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re bursting at the seams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martha&#8217;s Vineyard experienced a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations throughout the month of August. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/dukes-massachusetts-covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a>&nbsp;compiled by the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, infections in Dukes County, Mass., which contains Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, have increased 179 percent since Obama&#8217;s celebrity birthday guests began to arrive on the island. Last week, health officials reported more than 90 new positive tests.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Schepici, the hospital&#8217;s president and CEO, said the uptick in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 was overwhelming the staff&#8217;s ability to treat other patients. &#8220;We are pretty jam-packed,&#8221; Schepici told reporters. &#8220;We&#8217;re hoping there will be a reprieve in September. But that&#8217;s a prayer right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Martha&#8217;s Vineyard and other vacation hotspots frequented by members of the Liberal \u00c9lite have become breeding grounds for COVID-19. Celebs, journalists, and other left-wing activists who claim to believe in science have put countless lives at risk with their reckless behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of the so-called Obama variant has vindicated the former president&#8217;s critics, many of whom have long argued that the only thing Obama really cares about in life is hanging out with celebs, regardless of the death and destruction it causes.<\/p>\n<p>Guests at the Obama super spreader event included actor Don Cheadle, anti-Semite Al Sharpton, and Kim Fields, star of&nbsp;<em>Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/em>. Prominent Jewish celebs, such as comedian Larry David and longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod, were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/al-sharpton-obama-birthday\/\">disinvited<\/a>&nbsp;at the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Obama variant&#8221; of COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard&#8217;s only hospital and threatening to overrun its capacity. 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