CDC Director Walensky: ‘The Vast Majority of People Who Are in the Hospital Right Now Are Unvaccinated’
‘If you are vaccinated and if you are boosted, you have a much lower rate of ending up as a severe case or ending up as a fatality’
Dec 21, 2021 7:30 PM
By Grabien Staff
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WALENSKY: "Yeah, really important question. So, certainly my heart go out to the family of this case, this fatality that we learned of yesterday in Texas, and we are still learning more about that case. What I can tell you right now is the vast majority of people who are in the hospital right now are unvaccinated. And so we are learning — there still continue to be people who are in the hospital from our Delta surge, of course, and we are following what the severity and what is happening with the Omicron variant as well. What I can also tell you in countries that have had a surge before us, we’re in close touch with them, they are starting to report less severity, and we are, you know, looking at how we can apply the lessons that they have learned, the science that they have learned on the backdrop that they have and how it may be applied here in the United States."
