There is a time lag in data reporting. Local news

There is a time lag in data reporting. Local news in Minnesota says that ICU's in the urban hospitals are at 95% capacity. Are all the news outlets getting together to lie about that? Is my friend told that the ICU's are full so he can't have his surgery, as a little joke on him?

Go ahead and statistic-shop all you want. The truth is that people are in dire straits in certain areas, and it is extremely offensive to claim that an area that is being slammed does not have a problem.

Yes, vaccinated people can spread COVID. But they are MUCH less likely to spread it than an unvaccinated person, and the percentage of vaccinated people who are in the hospital is a tiny, tiny fraction of the number of hospitalized COVID patients who are unvaccinated.

I apologize to the moderators who say correctly that this is off topic.
But I can't let a bunch of inaccuracies go unchallenged. People who did not get the vaccine are why we are in this mess now. Had people gotten vaccinated last June when we had far fewer new cases, and 1/10 of the hospitalizations, we wouldn't be seeing this crisis now.