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07/09/2021

Unvaccinated Hospitalized Patients Say They Regret Not Getting the Shot

Doctors say it's heart-wrenching to see them come into the hospital with regret

To describe Dr. Ryan Dare as frustrated would be a gross understatement. Dare and his colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock are dealing with a surge in extremely ill Covid-19 patients — one that is "nearly 100 percent preventable."

That's because virtually all of their patients are unvaccinated. And now they wish they had gotten the shots when they had the chance.

"It is heart-wrenching to see unvaccinated individuals come into the hospital with regret," said Dare, an infectious diseases physician. They are patients who, "if they could do it all over again, would have had the vaccine in a second."

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