Unvaccinated hospitalized patients say they regret not getting the shot

[TomCADem]

It is just amazing the degree to which Fox, Newsmax and OANN are trying to outdo each other in terms of spreading anti-vax misinformation. However, I guess when you are sitting in a hospital ill with COVID, that does manage to break through the wall of misinformation.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/unvaccinated-hospitalized-patients-say-they-regret-not-getting-shot-n1273342

To describe Dr. Ryan Dare as frustrated would be a gross understatement. Dare and his colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock are dealing with a surge in extremely ill Covid-19 patients — one that is "nearly 100 percent preventable."

That's because virtually all of their patients are unvaccinated. And now they wish they had gotten the shots when they had the chance.

"It is heart-wrenching to see unvaccinated individuals come into the hospital with regret," said Dare, an infectious diseases physician. They are patients who, "if they could do it all over again, would have had the vaccine in a second."

Arkansas has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, with less than 35 percent of adults having been fully vaccinated. Now, the state's low vaccine uptake has crashed headlong into the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, leaving some hospital systems once again teetering on the brink of collapse more than a year into the pandemic.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. In a sane society people saying that on TV would be arrested.

[roamer65]

2. They shouldn't be getting hospital beds.

[Pas-de-Calais]

3. 24 yr old Georgia guy who got Covid

Intubated and needed a double lung transplant

Was one