Each and every COVID-19 patient admitted to the essential treatment device at Healthcare Centre Wellbeing System in the course of the past various months has not been vaccinated.

Which is the sobering information Essential Care Intensivist Dr. Alejandra Garcia Fernandez bluntly shared in the course of a information convention held at MCH on Thursday.

“We have not had just one zero clients admitted to CCU that has previously been vaccinated,” said Garcia Fernandez, who performs right with critically ill clients. “If that is not enough proof that the vaccine performs, I do not know what else to inform you.”

Garcia Fernandez is amid a developing quantity of wellbeing officers in Ector County who are sounding the alarm for extra inhabitants to get vaccinated. Not only are the quantity of inhabitants testing beneficial for COVID-19 spiking once again, an growing quantity of those situations in the course of the past thirty day period have turned out to be the extra dangerous Delta variant.

In June, MCH admitted nine clients who examined beneficial for the Delta variant, MCHS Director of Community Relations Trevor Tankersley said in the course of Thursday’s information convention. That quantity is expected to raise significantly for July, when those examination effects, which are performed in Austin, are launched in just the subsequent two weeks.

Wellbeing officers from MCH and Odessa Regional Healthcare Centre earlier this 7 days said they think most current COVID situations in the course of the past thirty day period are the Delta variant.

Throughout the information convention Garcia Fernandez declined to even communicate about the need to have for folks to phase up safeguards these types of as resume sporting experience coverings, washing palms regularly, and averting large gatherings.

“We’re past that dialogue,” Garcia Fernandez said. “We need to have to communicate about the local community getting vaccinated.

“Sixty p.c (of Ector County inhabitants) are not vaccinated – that is alarming.”

Until eventually about 80 p.c of the county gets vaccinated, COVID will continue to be a danger to people’s life and the economy, Garcia Fernandez said.

Garcia Fernandez and Tankersley acknowledged that wellbeing treatment officers are pissed off that so many folks continue on to refuse to get vaccinated.

Tankersley noted that the hospital procedure in recent weeks has held various local community vaccination functions in which no person confirmed up.

Garcia Fernandez said the most considerable challenge is many folks are misinformed about the protection and objective of vaccines. A vaccination does not warranty that an individual will not get COVID, but it does significantly reduce the threat.

“I’ve heard all the excuses,” Garcia Fernandez said. “There’s so many conspiracy theories out there – folks think the vaccine will modify their DNA, that it’s a way for the governing administration to location a monitoring chip into folks. Other folks say ‘I’m not ill,’ or ‘I’m youthful, I do not need to have it.’”

Wellbeing officers like Garcia Fernandez say those excuses could come back again to haunt folks because the Delta variant is proving to assault all ages – and it’s extra aggressive and speedier acting.

Like COVID-19, signs or symptoms for the Delta variant can contain fatigue, shortness of breath, coughing, a fever, chills and diarrhea. The Delta variant can overtake a person’s immune procedure in just a several times, Garcia Fernandez said.

“It’s a pretty agonizing demise,” she said. “Your lungs start off to scar and you come to feel like you can not breathe. By the time you are positioned on a ventilator we’ve previously had to induce coma. Your heart still can not get enough oxygen, so it stops and you die.

“It’s an agonizing demise for the patient and their cherished ones who have to check out from a window as you die.”

The lower level of folks vaccinated in Ector County is incredibly annoying to wellbeing officers because they know many deaths and health problems can be averted.

“Morale is previously lower (from 2020),” Garcia Fernandez said. “People are worn out and do not want to go by this once again.

“Yes, bodily we’re prepared if COVID numbers go up like they did previous yr. But emotionally, psychologically it affects staff. No one needs to stand there and keep someone’s hand though they die.”