Chief Medical Officer for inpatient and emergency services at UK HealthCare, Dr. Ashley Montgomery-Yates said there are 32 patients currently on ventilators. Only two of those patients were vaccinated. Montgomery-Yates said those two patients are immunocompromised.
She also said hospitals are seeing more young patients.
“So this morning at UK health care, we had 118 total patients in the hospital with COVID, which is more than we've ever had. So this isn't like a tiny surge not comparable to before," she said. "This is more patients in the hospital than we had even last winter before we had a vaccine."
UK HealthCare is also facing a nursing shortage, which began prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.