Is the Delta Variant Making Younger Adults âSicker, Quickerâ?
Many doctors on the front lines say unvaccinated patients in their 20s and 30s are becoming more severely ill, and more quickly. But comprehensive data is lacking.
Masked and unmasked revelers at a bar in New Orleans last week as infections rose in Louisiana. Unvaccinated patients in hospital I.C.U.s are younger than those at the outset of the pandemic, doctors say.Credit.Kathleen Flynn/Reuters
Aug. 3, 2021, 7:24 p.m. ET
Recently, a 28-year-old patient died of Covid-19 at CoxHealth Medical Center in Springfield, Mo. Last week, a 21-year-old college student was admitted to intensive care.
Is COVID s delta variant making younger adults sicker, quicker ?
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I will be frank and tell you we’ve had some of those same hesitancy questions even amongst our own staff, Haley said in a conference call with area elected officials and community leaders. We’re barely just over 50 to 60 percent of our staff that are vaccinated at this point and it’s creating its own unique challenges.
He said he walked through the UF Health campus on Friday with a pharmacist talking to employees who hadn t been vaccinated, offering to give them the shot on the spot.
Haley said among patients being treated at UF Health Jacksonville, 90 percent did not get the vaccine. He said 5 percent had not completed all the doses for their vaccinations or had not yet gone long enough from the last dose to achieve fully vaccinated status.
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