Seven children in Mississippi were in intensive care for COVID-19, including two who were on ventilators, according to State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs. “Please be safe and if you are 12 or older—please protect yourself,” Dobbs wrote on Twitter on July 13. News of the children’s hospitalizations arrived as Mississippi grappled with the spread of the Delta variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. “Pretty much ALL cases in MS are Delta variant right now,” Dobbs wrote on Twitter on Monday, noting that the vast majority of the cases, deaths, and hospitalizations were occurring among the unvaccinated population. Four of the 50 deaths in Mississippi between June 7 and July 5 involved vaccinated people. The seven-day moving average of daily new cases in Mississippi rose to 295 on July 12, the highest level since mid-March, according to the CDC. The state reported 12 deaths from the …