False Claims Spread that Hospitals Aren’t Overwhelmed by COVID-19 Cases

As more hospital systems are requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers, social media users on multiple platforms have started to cast doubt on the severity of the Delta variant and the surge in COVID-19 cases. These posts claim that hospitals must not be overwhelmed if they are willing to lose hospital staff who don’t comply with vaccination requirements. This claim ignores that staffing hospitals with people who are unvaccinated puts patients and staff at risk. Hospital admissions have increased by 322 percent in the last two months in the U.S., exceeding last winter’s peak in some states.

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