[didjathinkmess]

>They are overflowing because of the unvaccinated.

Source for this claim? Asking because I see stats being thrown around constantly: unvaccinated are 97% of ICU patients, etc. The only problem is, there's no data to back it up.

I've followed sources to the very end to try and locate this data but it doesn't exist. Most lazily point at the CDC but even they openly admit the data isn't reliable because they aren't tracking breakthrough cases correctly.

Maybe your source is legit.

[simonh]

Associated Press did an analysis of the data. The CDC won't give numbers because the figures we have are patchy, good for some states and poor or non existent from others, so they can't calculate population wide figures. The AP just looked at the most comprehensive figures we have for those areas that do have strong reporting.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fc...

This is also consistent with figures from the UK that keeps much more comprehensive and consistent records, because it has a unified national health infrastructure, as well as much higher vaccination rates.

[maxerickson]

The data for vaccination status of people that are hospitalized should not be impacted by the way people that are not hospitalized are tracked...the proportion of vaccinated people in the ICU is independent from the overall number of breakthrough infections (because their vaccination status can be recorded by the hospital directly).