RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Our local hospitals want you to know how many of their COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated.
Each of the three main health care systems in the Triangle — WakeMed, UNC Health and Duke Health — have published recent breakdowns of their patient totals by vaccine status.
Dr. David Wohl, an infectious disease specialist at the UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine, says one of the points is to emphasize how difficult the thousands of unvaccinated patients across the state are making it for everyone else — and to provide even more tangible evidence to persuade the millions of holdouts across the state to get the shots.
“The fabric of our health care system is ripping under the strain of the unvaccinated COVID patients,” Wohl said. “And it’s hurting not only COVID care but all care.”
Calling the situation “a catastrophe,” he says people who aren’t in hospitals don’t understand how difficult the situation is inside them.
“People are kind of insulated from it,” Wohl said.
WakeMed was the first to take to social media, posting last week that as of Sept. 1, the unvaccinated made up 88 percent of COVID patients in the hospital, 90 percent of those in intensive care and 87 percent of those on ventilators.
UNC Health and Duke Health each published their updates this week, with UNC Health saying 90 percent of COVID patients in beds, 96 percent of those in the ICU and 95 percent of those on ventilators did not get vaccinated.
The same trend is apparent at Duke Health,...
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