Vaccine numbers still hold better protection
Across Prisma Health’s Upstate and Midlands service area (including the Oconee Memorial Hospital at Seneca) there are new COVID-19 hospital numbers. They were released today in tandem with a lengthy zoom conference that included multiple Prisma Health doctors. By today, 628 people remained in the hospital. Of that number, 22% are vaccinated; 78% are not. Some of those patients, though still hospitalized, no longer test positive, according to the health care system. To further explain, a Prisma spokeswoman adds, “Some patients continue to require care even after they’re past the infectious stage – for example, if they have complications tied to COVID infection.” Of the 628, ventilators are attached to 65. Of those 65, eight are vaccinated; 57 are not.