Most People Hospitalized With COVID-19 in Colorado Are Unvaccinated
The pandemic isn’t over. The virus is still sickening and killing people. We can clearly see the light at the end of the tunnel. A light that we may struggle to get to yet.
It’s maddening and tragic that the best way to discern one’s vaccination status is determining who they voted for for president.
About 500 people remain hospitalized in Colorado with COVID-19 even though the pandemic seems to be receding, and health officials say almost all of the patients share a common trait: They’re unvaccinated.
“We’ve taken a deep look at this,” Dr. JP Valin, chief clinical officer at SCL Health, told Colorado Public Radio. “Ninety-five percent of the patients who have been hospitalized since February are unvaccinated.”
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Dr. Steve Brizendine, chief of the medical staff at Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton, said even when some patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, they are convinced the disease is not real. He recalled a patient who yelled at staff who were wearing masks, saying, “There’s no such thing as COVID,” only to have a deathbed conversion.
“All of us here, working on the front line, taking care of these patients that are critically ill, saving them, some of them dying, and for people to feel that this is not a true virus, this is not a true pandemic, was highly disappointing, highly disappointing, discouraging,” he said.
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