While many people hospitalized for covid recover, their recoveries can be grueling and extend for long periods, particularly if they required long stints on a ventilator. Two high-profile individuals who have been hospitalized and placed on a ventilator during the Delta surge in Wisconsin — Cardinal Raymond Burke and state Sen. André Jacque, R-De Pere — are among those patients undergoing rehabilitation following their stays in the ICU.
"People who have severe COVID-19 and who recover, particularly those who have required mechanical ventilation, are going to need some rehabilitation and a good amount of time before they get back to their baseline health status," said Dr. Ryan Westergaard, state epidemiologist for communicable diseases, during a Sept. 22 media briefing.
"People who have severe lung injury and require an ICU stay have a long, long recovery," Westergaard said, noting that many of these covid patients are dealing with long-term fatigue and negative mental health symptoms long after being released from intensive care.
"We're still learning about those things as we go," he said. "But this virus seems to have some unique characteristics that cause multiple systems to take a long time to recover."
Westergaard said that while some prominent models show covid cases peaking nationally in late September, any peak in Wisconsin is not yet apparent.
Breakthroughs and boosters
A majority of people who come down with severe covid are unvaccinated. In August, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported that the hospitalization rate for people who were not fully vaccinated was more than three times higher than the rate among fully vaccinated people.
The covid-related case and death rates among people who weren't fully vaccinated were similarly about three times higher than the death rate among fully vaccinated people in August.
Notably, there are large differences in the rate of hospitalizations and deaths among fully vaccinated people by age group. In August, the death rate per 100,000 fully vaccinated people 54 and younger in Wisconsin was zero. It was 0.5 per 100,000 in people 55-64, and 5.7 per 100,000 among people 65 and older.
Due to differences by age group in the percentage of Wisconsinites who are vaccinated and who become seriously ill with covid, the state health department also reports age-adjusted breakthrough statistics. After adjusting for age, DHS reported that people who were not fully vaccinated in August were 8.6 times more likely to be hospitalized for covid and 10.6 times more likely to die from it.
Rates of infection and severe disease in fully vaccinated people are significantly higher than earlier in 2021 and reflect a growing number of breakthrough illnesses among fully vaccinated people as the Delta variant has surged.
Wisconsin's former lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, is among those who have tested positive for covid after being fully vaccinated. Kleefisch, a Republican who announced her candidacy for governor earlier in September, shared her covid-positive status on Sept. 20, adding that she felt fine but would be isolating for several days.
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