ICU Nurses Dealing with COVID Patients

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Hi forum. This question is for nurses that deal a lot with COVID patients so I'm thinking  ICU nurses. Have you experienced vaccinated patients dying due to COVID complications???

Specializes in Critical Care/Vascular Access.

I work in the ICUs of 2 major hospitals in my area, and on the vascular access teams of 3, so I've had a pretty good view of the covid situation for the past couple of years around here. So here's my honest, non-biased-as-possible view.

Ever since the Delta surge (which was the first surge since widespread vaccine availability) there has been a glaring and undeniable difference between our non-vaxxed and vaxxed covid patients. During Delta, the vast majority (I'd estimate around 75% or so) of our covid ICU patients were unvaxxed. The handful of vaxxed patients who were critically ill almost always had a major comorbidity (think chemo or transplant patients), while the unvaxxed had the "usual" comorbidities that increased your risk of having severe covid (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc). The vaxxed patients that did end up in the ICU without a major comorbidity generally had a much better course and often recovered without much issue. We still have unvaxxed patients who are "recovered" from covid but still hospitalized due to the damage it did (people on ecmo waiting for lung transplant, etc).

To answer your question more directly, yes, we have seen vaccinated covid patients die from covid but they almost always had a major underlying issue severely impairing their immune system. There has been the rare exception of an otherwise average-health, vaccinated patient dying from it, but it was certainly the exception and not the rule. There has been a very clear trend of unvaxxed patients having a markedly more difficult disease course and higher mortality.

Then again, if you're a skeptic and/or a denier then no amount of data or anecdotal evidence will convince you.

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56 minutes ago, Nina Ninic said:

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