>If the vaccines are keeping a majority from serious illness from a Covid19 infection, where are the patients coming from to overwhelm the hospitals? In my par

>If the vaccines are keeping a majority from serious illness from a Covid19 infection, where are the patients coming from to overwhelm the hospitals? In my part of the world (US south), they are coming from the half of the population that refuses to be vaccinated. They are still overwhelming the ICUs and EDs. Non-essential procedures for the rest of us have been rescheduled etc. It's just another wave, who knows how many more we'll have? So from where we're at, any decrease in immunity still presents enough of a threat to the healthcare infrastructure. Lung cancer and heart disease aren't shutting down other units of our hospitals so they can move nursing staff to ICU.