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11. Utah hospitals ''bursting at the seams'

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Thu Nov 25, 2021, 06:33 PM

Nov 2021

By Scott D. Pierce
Nov. 24, 2021, 3:37 p.m.
Updated: 3:38 p.m.

... about 80% of Utahns who are dying from COVID-19 “have chosen not to be vaccinated.” The other 20% are fully vaccinated and have breakthrough infections.

Webb noted that patients with breakthrough infections “have, on average, at least four or more different chronic medical conditions like asthma or emphysema, diabetes, obesity, heart disease. And a significant number of them have immune systems that are compromised.”

About a fifth of those who die from breakthrough infections — about 4% of total deaths — “are immunocompromised patients who can’t respond well to the vaccine.”

“We really need people to understand their risk and their risk factors” ...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/11/24/utah-hospitals-bursting/

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