County of Rutherford issued the following announcement on Aug. 27.
NCDHHS released new data in the weekly respiratory surveillance report showing that unvaccinated people were 15.4 times, or 1,540 percent, more likely to die from COVID-19 during the four-week period ending Aug. 21, 2021.
This comes as the state hit a pandemic high on Aug. 26 with 912 adults in the ICU with COVID-19. The number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators also reached a record high at 574.
More details: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/.../adult-icu-patients-hit-record.
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