Originally Posted by
Silver Fox
In terms of hospitalization what is that 23% causing? Is it a significant amount of admissions? I read somewhere earlier today that in one region in Spain all the current occupants of ICU are unvaccinated. And that the average stay is 12 days for unvaccinated, 24-36 hours for vaccinated.
It's difficult to give precise numbers, thanks to the devolved number crunching we do. Plus the fact that each patient has their own story - perhaps a short stay, involving high dependency settings, or a long stay not involved in high dependency settings. But in essence that 23% is over-represented in high dependency settings by a factor of three. One in six COVID ICU patients are unvaccinated and pregnant. And yes they stay far longer than most patients. The media has more or less stopped showing people gasping for oxygen in ICU, but in the hospitals they are still there. Some 5 million people are causing quite avoidable grief to the healthcare professionals involved.