Posted on 09/08/2021 2:17:26 PM PDT by lightman
UPMC doctors say the average age of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has fallen by nearly 10 years and the virus no longer preys mostly on people who were already sick.
“We are seeing a truly alarming number of healthy people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s being admitted at UPMC and becoming critically ill, needing ICU care,” said Dr. Rachel Sackrowitz, who specializes in critical care.
In recent weeks, she said, UPMC has admitted about 20 times more COVID-19 patients under 50 who are unvaccinated than patients of that age who are vaccinated.
Sackrowitz said they are “people who have few other health issues and would otherwise be looking forward to many healthy years ahead.”
As of Wednesday, UPMC was treating 400 hospitalized COVID-19 patients across its system, which covers much of Pennsylvania and includes a few hospitals in New York and Maryland. That includes 102 COVID-19 patients in southcentral Pennsylvania.
UPMC didn’t provide statistics on their vaccination status, but Sackrowitz said the “overwhelming majority” are unvaccinated.
She described a situation similar to those recently detailed by two other central Pennsylvania health systems.
York-based WellSpan Health said 117 of 127 COVID-19 patients hospitalized as of Aug. 31 were unvaccinated. Of 23 in intensive care, all but one were unvaccinated, as were 15 of 16 patients on breathing ventilators.
A doctor at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center said 43 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized as of late last week. About half needed intensive care and, “Most everyone we see in the ICU at this point is unvaccinated,” Dr. Fahad Khalid said.
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has seen an increase in children needing medical care including hospitalization. However, “it’s nowhere near as bad” as levels of children needing care in some parts of the country, said Dr. John Williams, the chief of pediatric infectious diseases.
He said hospitalization of children is four times higher in states with low vaccination rates. (Pennsylvania has one of the better vaccination rates.)
He also said that among children 12 and older who are eligible for vaccine, the hospitalization rate is ten times higher for those who are unvaccinated.
Williams noted that even though his own teenaged child tested positive for COVID-19 and therefore had some immunity, his child got the vaccine when it became available for children.
He urged parents to vaccinate eligible children, to use and support use of face masks, including universal masking in school, and to vaccinate eligible adult family members to protect children.
“I would plead with you, as a pediatrician and a parent, let’s all do our part to keep our community safe, especially children, during the pandemic,” he said.
/s
Un-”vaccinated” or partially-”vaccinated” ...Hmmm...
4 times higher than 2 is 8. Oh noes!!!!
Cough cough bs cough cough
Keep training the COVID virus by injecting people with this crap and the virus gets stronger and stronger. ANd that’s the plan.
UPenn is one of the highly corrupt universities.
Dr Rachael CV. MBA 2017?
BA, Psychology, Amherst College, 1997
MD, New York University School of Medicine, 2004
Residency, Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 2007
Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 2010
MBA, Stern School of Business New York University, 2017
Are the unvaxxed even in with or for CoupFlu...?
People trying to make a point, trying to support a position often take a more than a little liberty with vague terms like "about." How about we see some real, hard numbers?
...Sackrowitz said the “overwhelming majority” are unvaccinated.
Again with the vague "majority" term... Oh, and "unvaccinated" by what definition? Apparently the CDC is being more than a little disingenuous about vaccination status. Last I heard, one shot - not considered vaccinated. 2nd or "final" shot - not considered vaccinated for 14 days. So any side-effects, hospitalizations related to getting the shot, are actually being attributed to the unvaccinated... Nice eh?
Publications:
Sackrowitz, R. Addressing ICU burnout using tele-technology to expand the team. Becker’s Health IT and CIO Report, August 2018.
Sackrowitz, R. Different challenges, shared experiences and common purpose. Becker’s Hospital Review, May 2018.
A real heavy hitter/s
Note to Big Med: The days when I take anything you say at face value are over.
Hope your reputations were worth it.
UPMC??? Unvaccinated People in Mainland China?
Until your vaccination is 14 days in the past, you get counted as “unvaccinated” if you get get sick or die.
“Williams noted that even though his own teenaged child tested positive for COVID-19 and therefore had some immunity”
Has high school biology class been tossed out the window, or do they only study the reproductive system? “Some immunity”? No, it’s just “immunity”.
117 of 127 patients were unvaccinated vs. vaccinated. That’s 92% better being vaccinated. Those odds don’t get much more clear.
And yet... here we go with the moronic comments about how the vaccines don’t work (see 8%!), that they’re dangerous (look, an 86 year old died after taking one!) and how IVM is a better than the vaccines (says not one RCT study.)
‘Covid & Marijuana – The Shocking Link Exposed’
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yeah what happens down the road? vax after vax after vax...what damage?
if the covid hadnt mutated around the vax..wouldn’t we all have been better off? especially the young.
To have stats that aren’t gibberish, you have to correct for the difference between the number of vaccinated relative to the number of vaccinated in the same age group. You also have to correct for the relative rates of comorbidities, the relative rates of smokers to non-smokers, the relative ratio of males to females (males are more at risk,) among other things.
They are lying. I have no doubt. Look at what Israel or England is saying about their cases.
They can’t even count the number of illegals here.
Thanks to the leftist and the RINO lawmakers.
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