More than 100,000 people in the United States were hospitalized with COVID-19 this week -- a figure not reported since late January, when vaccines were not widely available.
Aug. 27, 2021 -- showed 100,317 COVID hospital patients on Wednesday, a figure that grew to 101,050 on Thursday.The HHS data shows COVID hospitalizations are highest across the Southeast, with more than 16,800 patients in Florida, 14,000 in Texas, 6,200 in Georgia, 3,000 in Alabama, and 2,300 in Missouri.
Alarmingly, many of these COVID patients are severely ill. About 30% of the nation’s intensive care unit beds are now occupied by COVID patients, HHS data shows. Health experts have said the majority of the hospitalized people are unvaccinated. Research shows that vaccinated people who become infected with the Delta variant generally don’t become as sick as unvaccinated people.
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