It's the pandemic of the vaccinated!
75-90% of the ICU patients are fully vaccinated!
that’s not true, in fact the opposite. Not to mention SoCal gets a lot of ‘border visitors’
“in Orange County, Supervisor Katrina Foley said Monday that 90% of COVID-19 patients that have been hospitalized have been unvaccinated.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-09/covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-sharply-across-southern-california-as-surge-continues
“The average age for young unvaxxed or partially vaxxed patients is 51, younger than the average of fully vaxxed patients which is 66.”
https://omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-on-demand/hospital-admissions-are-on-the-rise-in-southern-ca
last month in San Diego:
“Three or four weeks ago, I was getting about one ECMO referral a week, and now I’m getting probably between two and eight a day,” she said. “These are physicians who are calling from all over Southern California who are looking for help and have already reached capacity...Of the six with COVID-19 who are currently on ECMO at UCSD, all are unvaccinated.”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-08-05/hospitalizations-continuing-to-rise-across-san-diego
LA times tracks ICU space:
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/hospitals/