Since the beginning of the Pandemic, Michigan has hit its highest number of hospitalizations.
Most of the people hospitalized are unvaccinated, despite the fact that vaccines have been available for a year.
The Detroit Free Press reported that there were more people hospitalized in the state with COVID-19 on Friday than there were a month ago.
According to Fox2 Detroit, the number of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 is the highest.
The state has one of the lowest vaccine rates. The state data shows that only half of the residents are fully vaccine free.
The University of Michigan Health System told Fox2 Detroit that every patient on a ventilator has not been vaccined.
The only way out of this epidemic is to get a vaccine. Michigan Medicine CEO Dr. Marschall Runge told Fox2 Detroit that unvaccinated people are at risk of dying of disease that can be prevented.
According to a nurse at Sparrow Hospital in Michigan, hospitalizations will get worse.
"We are still talking about how we haven't peaked yet," he said.
The hospital is full.
"We have more patients than we've ever had at any point, and we're seeing more people die at a rate we've never seen before," Jim Dover, president and CEO of Sparrow Health System told CNN.
75% of the patients who died from COVID-19 in the hospital system were unvaccinated. The people who were vaccined were more than six months past their initial vaccinations.
Michigan's Chief Medical Executive,Natasha Bagdasarian, and Health Director Elizabeth Hertel urged residents to get vaccinations.
Bagdasarian said that the situation in the state is critical. There are more cases. Hospitals are full. There is a new variant.
The state health officials requested 200 more ventilators from the national stockpile, according to the Detroit News.
The situation in the state is overwhelming healthcare systems and workers.
Most hospitals and health systems in the state of Michigan have gone to code-red triage, which means they won't accept transfers. If the current growth rate continues, we would expect to see 200 in-patient Covid patients by the end of the month, according to the CEO.
The healthcare workers are frustrated because they didn't know they would be dealing with this surge a year after vaccines were made available.
"I was hoping that we would get vaccinations and things would be normal again," he said.
The situation is so dire that people have to go to the hospital and wait days for a bed.
