curb their travel over the Labor Day holiday.
She also again pushed for vaccination: Right now only 62% of Americans who are eligible for a vaccine (everyone 12 years of age and older) are fully vaccinated.
It’s the unvaccinated who are landing in hospitals and dying, experts say.
“Here’s the important thing: everyone that I’m hospitalizing is not vaccinated,” Ranney tells CNN. “We are, by and large across the country, not needing to hospitalize people that have gotten both doses of the vaccine. This is a disease of the unvaccinated right now.”
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That’s showing up as a key factor in states hit hardest by COVID-19. According to CNN, fewer than 40% of people living in Alabama, Wyoming, Idaho, Mississippi and West Virginia are vaccinated, and in two of those states, Alabama and Mississippi, hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are already at more than 90% of ICU beds taken.
Four other states — Georgia, Arkansas, Texas and Florida — also have less than 10% ICU capacity left, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
If you suspect that you may have come in contact with COVID, you should social distance and get tested as soon as possible. For more information about COVID and vaccines, visit the CDC.