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78 CMO / CARE DELIVERY Nurse practitioner salary by state: California is No. 1 at $145,970 By Kelly Gooch T he mean annual wage for nurse practi- tioners in the U.S. is $114,510, accord- ing to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics' occupational employment and wage statistics survey released in September. Nurse practitioners have the highest mean annual wage in California, and the lowest mean annual wage in Tennessee. Here is the mean annual wage for nurse prac- titioners by state, in descending order: California: $145,970 New Jersey: $130,890 Washington: $126,480 New York: $126,440 Massachusetts: $126,050 Nevada: $119,890 Minnesota: $118,900 Wyoming: $118,810 Hawaii: $118,780 Oregon: $118,600 Arizona: $117,480 Rhode Island: $117,300 New Mexico: $117,050 Connecticut: $116,780 Texas: $116,700 Maryland: $115,240 Montana: $114,370 Idaho: $113,890 Utah: $113,550 Wisconsin: $113,030 Oklahoma: $112,750 New Hampshire: $112,460 Delaware: $112,230 Illinois: $112,060 Louisiana: $111,880 Maine: $111,580 Pennsylvania: $111,560 North Dakota: $111,070 Alaska: $110,270 Indiana: $109,940 Colorado: $109,760 Virginia: $109,660 Mississippi: $109,550 Michigan: $109,150 North Carolina: $108,370 Vermont: $108,280 Iowa: $107,910 Nebraska: $107,330 Missouri: $106,870 Georgia: $106,220 Arkansas: $106,210 Ohio: $105,630 West Virginia: $105,220 Kansas: $104,530 South Dakota: $103,080 Kentucky: $102,460 South Carolina: $101,190 Florida: $101,060 Alabama: $99,790 Tennessee: $99,370 n Death risk 11 times higher for unvaccinated amid delta spread, CDC finds By Erica Carbajal R elative to vaccinated people, those who are unvac- cinated and infected with COVID-19 face a 10 times higher risk of hospitalization and are 11 times more likely to die from the disease, the CDC's Sept. 10 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found. "Looking at cases over the past two months when the delta variant was the predominant variant circulating in this coun- try, those who were unvaccinated were about four and a half times more likely to get COVID-19, over 10 times more like- ly to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die from the disease," Rochelle Walensky, MD, CDC director, said of the study's results during a Sept. 10 news conference. Researchers analyzed rates of COVID-19 cases, hospital- izations and deaths among adults across 13 U.S. jurisdic- tions from April 4 to July 17, 2021. The report showed that as the highly transmissible delta variant became more prevalent in the U.S., the risk of breakthrough cases also rose, though the vaccines were effective in preventing severe illness. From April 4 to June 19, when delta prevalence was lower, fully vaccinated people accounted for 5 percent of COVID-19 cases, 7 percent of hospitalizations and 8 percent of deaths, overall. When delta prevalence was higher from June 20 to July 17, vaccinated people accounted for 18 percent of cases, 14 percent of hospitalizations and 16 percent of deaths. "Rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were substantially higher in persons not fully vaccinated compared with those in fully vaccinated persons, similar to findings in other reports," the CDC said. n