Sorry what? Yes, this has happened many times in many regions during this pandemic. If anything, as governments lean more and more into "let's just call it endemic and give into anti-vaxxers," it's happening more.

And to make it concrete: where I live we're into emergency (as in, stretching the system past its limits) ICU capacity and elective procedures (which, please note, does not mean optional) have been cancelled or delayed en masse for a couple months now as we've been going through our 4th and 5th waves.

People are absolutely regularly having diminished quality of health care due to unvaccinated people catching, as well as spreading, covid.

I don't know where you live but they cancelled those things here as well. Not because of the unvaxed but because 30% of nurses who are triple vaxxed were down with covid.

I mean, I dunno what to tell you but when they start opening up emergency ICU capacity being down 30% of nurses (accepting your premise for the sake of argument) doesn't help but it's not the core problem. The problem is people getting sick with severe illness due to covid, and that is largely unvaccinated people.

Severe outcomes stretch the system more, and unvaccinated people have more severe outcomes.

At any rate, if those nurses weren't vaccinated it's likely more than 30% would be out and a significant portion of them would be dead, so if you want to go down the "vaccines make people sick/more likely to be sick" path then you've just fallen off the rails. The path you have in mind would be a mass death event our medical systems are completely unequipped to handle.

There are 100s of new articles around the country about hospitals near or at capacity and patient care being affected, due to omicron surge. Here is just one:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-20/hospital...