Arkansas Hospital Says Not a Single ICU Patient is Vaccinated as Delta Surges

[Arkansas Granny]

Officials at Arkansas' largest healthcare organization said not a single COVID-19 patient at Baptist Health Medical Center Little Rock's intensive care unit (ICU) is vaccinated.

"The vast majority of patients that are in the hospital are not vaccinated," Dr. Eric Bravo, the medical director of Baptist Health's hospitalist program, told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I would say, I have not personally seen anybody in the ICU that's been vaccinated."

On Tuesday, Arkansas' COVID-19 hospitalizations reached its highest since January 27. The state's department of health reported that 387 patients are in intensive care and 205 patients are on ventilators. Only three percent of Arkansas' ICU beds remain available.

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[StClone]

1. Dang they are sticking it to me again

It hurts being a Lib and having all this (well some part of it, so they say) on my shoulders.

[Lovie777]

2. And also they are refusing to wear masks . . .

[Baked Potato]

3. There's really no way for decent society to

punish these sad sacks more than nature already is.

[Effete Snob]

4. Shouldn't they all be in a church instead?

They aren't going to soak up those thoughts & prayers in a hospital.

Get some cots and send them to Dr. Jesus.

[Texaswitchy]

8. Why run to the hospital for.

Pray it away.

[RockRaven]

5. With a population of 3M, that's 13 current ICU cases per 100K.

I was just looking at the CA website and we've got 829 current ICU cases today, but with a population of 39.5M, that's 2.1 per 100K.

6+ times as many ICU patients per capita (and I'm sure CA isn't even the biggest contrast, it's just the one I happen to know at the moment). So much unnecessary suffering, so wasteful.

[roamer65]

6. Here's for the 18+ adult antivaxxers in the ICUs.

Fuck you for making my insurance premiums go up.

[scrabblequeen40]

7. So the karmic plan is working... one way or the other, herd immunity

will be achieved.

[Texaswitchy]

9. The hard way.

I feel so sorry for the medical personal.

They are being burnt.out.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I don't understand my fellow Arkansans. One of my coworkers told the

company owner that he didn't want the government forcing him to do something.

Had I been there I would have told him that the government is offering him a free immunization that could protect him from a fatal disease. No one is forcing him to do anything.