In Michigan, health officials said Friday the state's hospitals are 'overburdened' with Covid-19 patients, most of whom are not vaccinated
Zafar Shamoon, chief of the emergency department at the Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said he had been hoping that there wouldn't be another wave of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations.
But, like a grim deja vu, hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients again, most unvaccinated. This time, those numbers are compounded by more non-Covid-19 patients, who doctors say may have been delaying their surgeries and treatments or staying at home during earlier surges.
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