(WWJ) -- Recent hospital data shows that the vaccine still seems to stave off the worst effects of the COVID-19 virus, as the majority of patients in Michigan filling up ICUs and being put on ventilators are unvaccinated.
Henry Ford Health System reported that nearly 80% of its COVID-19 patients in its hospitals and nearly 80% of patients on ventilators are unvaccinated.
As of Dec. 20, Michigan Medicine said about 75% of COVID patients in their ICU are unvaccinated and nearly 70% of the patients on ventilators are unvaccinated.
Michigan Medicine said only one or two people who are critically ill with the virus in its hospitals have none of the three major co-morbidities. Those include being 65 or older, immunocompromised or having significant underlying lung disease.
Michigan has also reported a record number of COVID-19 cases for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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The state's health department reported an average of 13,000 cases on each of those days. This is the highest daily case number Michigan has had in the nearly two years since the pandemic began.
In that 48 hour-period, the health department said 106 people died from the virus.
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Hospitalizations have ticked up slightly, to just over 38,000 and more than 850 in the ICU.
The case fatality rate is just under 2%.
