Mississippi s hospital system is on the brink of collapse because of COVID
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Doctors: Unvaccinated COVID-19 patients filling up hospitals, risking care of others Share Updated: 4:33 PM PDT Aug 2, 2021 Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN
Doctors: Unvaccinated COVID-19 patients filling up hospitals, risking care of others Share Updated: 4:33 PM PDT Aug 2, 2021
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Show Transcript Yeah, Amy Mattson struggles to breathe. What does it feel like to have covid exhausting uh extremely frustrating firing and the fact that I am here now, I am furious with myself. Why? Because I was not vaccinated, not anti vaccine. She says she just didn t get around to it. The 44 year old is now one of dozens of COVID-19 patients in Baton Rouge s our lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Her oxygen low. Her doctor says she might need a ventilator. I just don t want anyone else winding up like me. Especially when the vaccine is so easy to get Now. The delta variant now prevalent in the bayou state. Not only is it enormously infec
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Posted: Aug 2, 2021 2:16 PM
Updated: Aug 2, 2021 2:17 PM
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Hospitals are surging with unvaccinated patients infected with the Delta variant which could affect car accident victims and other non-Covid-19 patients who need hospital care, doctors say. None of these patients thought they would get the virus, but the Delta variant has proven to be so highly contagious that even the young and the healthy, including pregnant patients, are now starting to fill up our hospitals, said Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for AdventHealth Central Florida.