The percentage of those vaccinated in Delaware is ticking up, but thanks to the delta variant, so is the number of hospitalizations due to COVID.
The Delaware Division of Public Health is reporting a seven-day average of 447 new cases of COVID, with 258 current hospitalizations. Inpatient beds in hospitals in the Wilmington area were all above 70 percent capacity as of the week of Sept. 3, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Bayhealth Hospital Kent Campus in Dover was above 80 percent, while Beebe Medical Center in Lewes was nearing 100 percent capacity.
According to the state health department, breakthrough cases, where those fully vaccinated account for about half of one percent of cases. About 61 percent of the state population has been fully vaccinated.