I'm not a doctor or a health care professional, but my guess is that Covid-19 patients are so flooded with the virus that giving them the vaccine is too late to make a difference. It would be ineffective. The prevalent goal is to get them breathing to as much full capacity as possible. How much easier, the patients may realize, it would have been to have had the vaccine than to be intubated. It is truly a tragic situation. I wonder if they had not read the news that this is the new normal with this virus. And what is their governor doing? Bitching about effing Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/26/us/florida-coronavirus-hospital-surge/index.html

(CNN) - Health care workers at Jacksonville's Baptist Medical Center in Florida are hearing panic, fear and regret from many of their patients as an increasing number are admitted for Covid-19 complications -- and as many need to be put on ventilators. "We're getting ready to intubate the patient, which means putting them on a ventilator, and they said, "If I get the vaccine now, could I not go on the ventilator?" So, they're begging for it," Chief Nursing Officer Tammy Daniel told CNN. "They're desperate because they are gasping for air, they can't breathe, they are scared, they feel like they're going to pass away."

But by then, they are too late for a vaccine to stop their infection.