appreciate as we go through this difficult time. what are your most urgent needs there? where do you see some of those people being placed as you said, 23 military staff coming to help and support the help you already have? unfortunately, we re short in almost every area of our hospital, but we have areas, of course, that are hit harder than others. our emergency room, our intensive care units, but also areas of the hospital that have critical roles that aren t directly clinical, but needed to move the hospital around. transporters and environmental service workers, food service workers, we re short in all of those areas, very important crucial jobs, and there s going to be a lot of work to go around for these incredible heros, joining our heros at the hospital. you mentioned there the covid patients you have. i understand there s about 150 covid patients at your hospital. you mentioned that 75% of them are unvaccinated. contrast for us the care needed for somebody vaccinated ver
somebody who is not? it s really the same playbook for somebody admitted with covid-19. the good news is that about 60% of them are patients with covid but not here for the classic covid disease, so covid pneumonia requiring intensive respiratory care, ventilator care and respiratory care, about 40% of patients with covid in our hospital and those are folks that are asymmetrically unvaccinated. if you re unvaccinated you re likely to get severe disease from covid and require all the classic things we ve had to do over the last two years. contrast that with folks who are fully vaccinated or boosted who may have the disease but that s not why they re here for the most part. i think it s important to understand the distinction and the value of vaccination which is still really, really important, which is why we have a big role in our community in newark spreading the word about it, a vaccination clinic and continue to see demand for boosters which is good news. i understand that newar