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Gov. Mike DeWine orders 1,050 members of Ohio National Guard to assist hospitals amid COVID-related
Source: WKYC
COLUMBUS, Ohio — As the state of Ohio experiences another surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday morning that he has ordered 1,050 members of the Ohio National Guard into the state's hospitals.
"This is the highest number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 this year, and the number of hospitalized patients is rapidly approaching an all-time high," Gov. DeWine's office noted in a press release Friday.
Gov. DeWine also took a moment to encourage everybody to get vaccinated as soon as possible while continuing to follow other safety precautions -- including his suggestion that schools go back to masking for now.
“Our high COVID hospital count is being driven primarily by the unvaccinated," he said. "Nine out of 10 people who have COVID in our hospitals are unvaccinated. That is just the facts.”
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https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coro...07467146f5
Talk about burying the lead in Ohio. For all the media focus on breakthrough cases, "Nine out of 10 people who have COVID in our hospitals are unvaccinated. That is just the facts.” Yet, you still have Republicans and right wing media pushing COVID misinformation and fighting vaccination and masking rules.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-59405471
Covid-19: Hospitals at capacity with mainly unvaccinated patients
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust anaesthetic trainee Cima Dailami, said the hospital's intensive care wards were working "flat-out".
"The Covid patients we've got on ITU are largely unvaccinated. So that's the real clincher," she said.
"That can be quite demoralising for us to see, because we really are working at maximum. We're needing to do everything we can, that's tough.
"I'm sure you must've seen all of the ambulances waiting outside.