‘Devastating’: Hospitals prepare for preventable surge as COVID delta variant attacks unvaccinated
In Dallas, those hospitalized are almost exclusively people who have chosen not to get a vaccine.
Nurse Natalie Salazar held the hand of an intubated COVID-19 patient in the Tactical Care Unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital as he received a chest tube placement to re-expand a punctured lung in February.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
Front-line health care workers at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas are preparing for another COVID-19 surge.
This one, they say, is preventable.
More unvaccinated people are being hospitalized with the dangerous delta variant at rates similar to last year’s late-fall spike.