Of the 11 intensive care patients in Montreal and Laval with COVID-19, none were adequately vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease, according to public health officials. Bellemare is a pulmonologist who heads the intensive care unit at Montreal's Sacré-Coeur hospital, where staff have been treating COVID-19 patients since the early days of the pandemic. Most intensive care patients infected with COVID-19 regret their decision to refuse the vaccine, said Bellemare. He said intensive care patients are younger than ever, often in their 40s, because most of the older population is fully vaccinated. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports more than 166 million people have been fully vaccinated.

Source: CBC News August 13, 2021 22:08 UTC