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8 States Make Up Half Of COVID-19 Hospitalizations: Report

The states, which also have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, are reporting more than 51 percent of all hospitalizations.

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Coronavirus patient Joan Bronson walks across her hospital room with the help of a physical therapist at Ochsner Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson, La. Louisiana is among 8 states reporting more than half of U.S. hospitalizations.
Coronavirus patient Joan Bronson walks across her hospital room with the help of a physical therapist at Ochsner Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson, La. Louisiana is among 8 states reporting more than half of U.S. hospitalizations. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance)

ACROSS AMERICA — As COVID-19 infections spike, overwhelming health care workers across the United States, hospitals in a small handful of states are shouldering a majority of the burden, according to a report.

More than half of all current COVID-19 hospitalizations come from these eight states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, and Texas, according to a CNN analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While 51 percent of hospitalizations are in these states, they comprise only 24 percent of the country's population.

The affected states also have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. In Mississippi and Alabama, only 35 percent of the eligible populations are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. In Louisiana, the number increases to 38 percent.

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