them about vaccines and remind them, i see lots of patients coming into the emergency department and i ve not seen patients come in with side effects of the vaccine. that s really important for viewers to understand. i see lots of people who are unvaccinated who get covid. but i don t see problems with the vaccine six months into this vaccine campaign. that s really important because studies show normally if there were severe side effects, those would show up in the first, what, four to six weeks of a vaccine being taken, now we re many months into that, yet so many people are still not getting the vaccine and ending up in the hospital. if you would, bring us into the hospital to the extent you can. what exactly are you seeing among these young patients? how young are we talking? are they on intubators? paint a picture for us of what s going on behind the scenes. sure. if you go back two or three weeks ago, things seemed to be much more stable, we had reached a place of consistency
by far when the usa swimmers were there. look, there are swimming medals up for grabs today, a total of 18 up for grabs today. there will be a debut of olympic skateboarding and surfing, we re about to head to the beach to check out olympic surfing. hopefully team usa will have a better day two than day one. i said 18 medals up for grabs. there were 17 new covid infections tied to the olympics in the last 24 hours. let s hopefully keep the medal count higher than the covid numbers. there s 127 or 128 infections that are now tied to the olympics. we have more than 20 athletes who have had their olympic dreams kind of extinguished by this virus. it s not a major, big outbreak situation. the cases are being detected, relatively small numbers, all the athletes get tested every single day. there s a lot of hope. there are some big names that will be competing today. we ll see simone biles make her debut at the games. we ll see her compete in the
hospital emergency department. dr. wilson, thank you for joining us. those numbers paint a really bleak picture. tell us how much the unvaccinated are driving this. these are very concerning numbers. we ve seen a rapid shift over the last two weeks at our hospital for hospitalizations. and these hospitalizations are nine to one unvaccinated people versus vaccinated patients. for the most part, we see a case of a person who gets covid and they re vaccinated, we re able to send that patient home or follow them by surveillance. but right now our hospitals are filling up with unvaccinated patients who are sick and much younger than the patients we saw just a couple of months ago. these are people in their 40s and younger. 40s and younger, i mean, how young are we talking? these are young adults. these are people who have gone back and begun doing all the things we had mitigated against for so long while we waited for these vaccines. we need to go out and get those vaccines.
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now we ve seen a tripling to quadrupling of those numbers, over 70 patients in the hospital right now with covid. now, at the same time, this is much different than last summer, because we re able to figure out where to put each patient. some are getting monoclonal antibodies, some are coming to the hospital much more sick. again, it s unvaccinated patients who are much more sick, some requiring ventilators and some requiring intensive therapy in the icu like oxygen. really it s the requirement for oxygen that brings you to the hospital setting. do you think things in florida, when it comes to covid, are going to get worse? here s what s really important to understand. whether we re talking about the delta variant or some unknown variant that s going to arise in the future, we re going to keep on having this same conversation over and over again until we move those vaccination numbers up from 50% to over 70%. there s not a magic bullet but