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THE ANSWER
Yes. Statements and data released by hospitals, the CDC and nonprofit health organizations all say at least 95% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the past several months are unvaccinated. This has remained true even with the rise of the Delta variant in recent months.
WHAT WE FOUND
Nonprofit health policy organization Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) published data for COVID-19 hospitalizations in vaccinated and unvaccinated people for 18 states plus the District of Columbia. KFF’s data show at least 95% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in every state recorded are not fully vaccinated. Alaska had the smallest proportion of unvaccinated COVID-19 hospital patients at 95.02% and New Jersey had the largest proportion at 99.93%.