“Please heed what we are saying (COVID precautions) to you”

In all categories of COVID-19 patients, the Prisma Health system in South Carolina, which includes the Oconee Memorial Hospital, 91% of the patients are unvaccinated against the virus.  And today a Prisma key doctor is appealing to people to take the vaccine.  The following statistics were given by Dr. Wendell James:  Prisma has 500 in-patients with COVID, and 453 are unvaccinated; of 116 ICU patients, all except 10 are unvaccinated; 62 of 68 COVID patients on ventilators haven’t been vaccinated.  Dr. James says most of Prisma’s COVID patients now range in age from 40 to 60 years old.  As for the holiday weekend, Prisma endorses the CDC recommendation that all Americans who are unvaccinated should not travel and should avoid large gatherings.