Covid hospitalizations rise across US as hospitals say patients aren’t vaccinated - The Guardian

Covid-19 hospitalizations are surging across the US and stretched hospitals are warning that the overwhelming majority of coronavirus patients are unvaccinated and their serious sickness preventable.

This is significantly fewer people than during the peak in cases, deaths and hospitalizations this January, but similar to the rates last summer when coronavirus vaccines were still in development.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr Rochelle Walensky, said on Monday: “While we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, Covid-19 is clearly not done with us, and so our battle must last a little longer.”.

The CDC said 99.99% of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have not had a breakthrough case that resulted in hospitalization or death.

On Monday, the hospital said it was treating 155 Covid-19 patients and that each hour a person was being admitted with the infection.

From mid-July to this past weekend, the number of people who said they were not likely to get the vaccine dropped from 24% to 22%.

Four out of five vaccinated people said in the poll that they blame the unvaccinated for the rise in cases.