DENVER — Colorado has nearly 900 people in the hospital with COVID-19; 83% of them are unvaccinated. .

"We are definitely continuing to see an increase unfortunately in hospitalizations with this COVID surge, and we’re seeing higher numbers than we have seen in many, many, many, months," said Dr.

"Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen record number of people coming into emergency departments and we definitely want people to come in for care, but when you put that combination of people seeking care for non-COVID issues, as well as on top of the COVID, it is definitely stressing our hospitals." .

"We do need the help of everybody right now because we do want to be here to care for you, care for your family and be here when you need a hospital bed and need our expert staff.".

About one-third of those COVID-19 patients are in the ICU, and half of the ICU COVID patients are on ventilators

"I think that part of what we’re seeing if for about 18 to 20 months people were not getting their routine care, and so even if they don’t have COVID, they’re still ending up in the hospital, and that is with COVID putting an added strain on," Critical Care Dr

"In terms of our intensive care unit, we’re seeing high censuses of much higher than they were pre-pandemic – not as bad as spring 2020 but not too far from that."