THREAD: Harrowing account of effect of UNVACCINATED on hospital ICU capabilities

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22. A Philly City Council member just lost his son who was awaiting a transplant, due to a lack of beds

Councilmember’s son dies; had to fight for hospital bed because of COVID-19 patients

By Pat Loeb, KYW Newsradio
September 23, 20213:33 pm

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The consequences of COVID-19 vaccine refusal became a very personal issue for Philadelphia City Councilmember Curtis Jones, who lost his son last week. He had a message for unvaccinated people at Thursday's session: Making that choice could have potentially fatal consequences beyond just spreading COVID-19 to those they love.

Jones said his son’s treatment for a heart and lung illness may have been delayed because of COVID-19 patients monopolizing hospital beds. He shared that he didn’t want to shame anybody, but he wanted to make the unvaccinated aware that the risk is not only to themselves, and not only about COVID-19. "Understand that it has an unintended consequence on those who have other ailments," said Jones.

Jones learned the lesson in a heartbreaking way, trying to find his son care. His son was waiting for an organ transplant, but Jones said that as his son got sicker, the family had trouble finding him an intensive care bed because they were filled with COVID-19 patients. "That hospital we were trying to get our boy in had a 105% occupancy," Jones explained. "One-hundred percent of the beds were already taken, with a five-person waiting list."

There are currently 216 people hospitalized with the virus in the city, including 30 on ventilators. The Pennsylvania Health Department estimates that 95% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated. Philadelphia has one of the highest vaccine rates among big cities, but 16% of adults still have not received even a first dose.


https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/councilmans-son-dies-treatment-delayed-from-covid-19-cases

We have crept down to a 3% positivity rate here in Philly so far, now averaging probably in the high 200s to low 300s per day over 7 days. The state is still running in the 5000 cases per day range. The city announced today that we are at 69% fully vaxxed and 84% with 1 dose -

Link to tweet

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Philadelphia Public Health
@PHLPublicHealth
Sept. 28, 2021 COVID-19 vax update:

2,021,003 total vax doses administered
861,113 residents fully vaxxed
69% of adults are fully vaxxed
1,045,150 residents have at least 1 dose of vaccine
84% of adults have at least 1 dose of vaccine

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12:30 PM · Sep 28, 2021

One of the obvious issues here in Philly is that although we currently have a lower positivity rate for our population as compared to the rest of the state, as the biggest city in the state, we also have the big hospitals. So whatever hospitals here that are "filled" are not actually or necessarily filled with nothing but city residents, but probably with a mix of people from all over the area (including Jersey and Delaware).