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The NationalAverage daily new Covid-19 case In the United States dropped drastically since it peaked in January. Now, states remove some or all of their public health measures and life began to return to "normal", but there are still peoplecontracting the virus and becoming seriously ill from the disease. And according to doctors, there is one thing that almost all patients eventually Covid HOSPITALIZED have in common these days.

While overall hospitalizations have declined sharply with the number of cases in recent weeks, health care providers around the United States find that the vast majority of patients hospitalized for Covid arenot vaccinated against the virus,United States today reports. According to a spokesman for Sanford Health, which manages and operates 44 medical centers and more than 200 clinics across four Midwestern states, fewer than five percent of the 1,456 patients who were admitted for Covid since January were fully vaccinated.

Nationally,hospital data Department of Health and Human andimmunization data Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also show thatStates with lower vaccination rates have a higher proportion of patients in intensive care.

"We all see the same thing when someone does get sick and comes to the hospital, they are much more likely to be young and unvaccinated"Robert WachterMD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco, said,United States today.

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While fully immunized people can still become infected with the virus, studies show that currently available vaccines are highly effectivepreventing serious diseases. Instead, the vaccinated patients who end up hospitalized are usually limited to peoplecompromised immune systems who may not have seen the full benefit of their shots.

"One of those we took care of the cancer was, and one was for immunosuppressive rheumatologic disease,"Todd riceMD, director of the intensive care unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told NBC News.

Unfortunately, some people hospitalized with severe cases of Covid are a group that is not vaccinated because of regulations: Children under 12 "In our local hospitals, children who fall sick are those who are not vaccinated "Natasha BurgertMD, pediatrician in Overland Park, Kansas, and a national spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told NBC News.

AsImmunization rates began to decline national scale, doctors urge all eligible persons to be vaccinated to ward off serious illness for themselves and protect those in their families who can not receive them. "Vaccines work really well,"Josh Denson, MD, a pulmonary medicine and intensive care physician at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, told NBC News. "It is just silly not to get it. »

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