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David Wohl, MD

The Washington Post reports that with only about half of the U.S. population fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, hospitals across the country are straining to respond to a deadly fourth surge of infections driven by the delta variant.

David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, who monitors the dashboard that tracks hospital admissions at , said he recognized an uptick a couple of weeks after July 4.

“Holidays are good for covid-19 and bad for us,” he said in the article. He also recognized that “the delta variant, which delivers huge numbers of virus and accounts for nearly 100 percent of all new covid-19 cases, has presented new challenges, occasionally finding unexpected cracks in people’s immune systems sometimes ” But he acknowledged in the of cases, people who get sick are unvaccinated.