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In Montana, unvaccinated patients make up 90% of hospitalizations

by KIANNA GARDNER
Daily Inter Lake | August 6, 2021 12:00 AM

Nearly 90% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Montana over the past eight weeks have been unvaccinated, state officials said in a report released Thursday — a finding that comes as the state surpasses 1,800 active cases, roughly a quarter of which are in Flathead County.

The state Department of Public Health and Human Services looked at 358 people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 from June 5 to July 30 and found 89% of those patients had not received a vaccine...

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