- CAP President-Elect Emily Volk, MD, MBA, FCAP, discusses the summer surge in COVID-19 cases and urges vaccination.
SOUTHERN INDIANA — The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has more than quadrupled since the Fourth of July at Baptist Health Floyd — and of those hospitalized, more than 95% are unvaccinated.
Dr. Emily Volk, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said she is “absolutely begging” people to be vaccinated, saying it is a “matter of life and death.”
“My concern is that people are dying right now and will die in the future totally unnecessarily because they decided not to use the best protection we have against this thing, which is the vaccine,” Volk said.
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