According to NBC 10, despite having the highest vaccination rates in the country, New England still remains a strong area of effect with COVID-19. Hospitals across the region are seeing full intensive care units and staff shortages are starting to affect care. Public officials are pleading with the unvaccinated to get the shots.

Even though parts of New England are seeing record case counts, hospitalizations and deaths that rival pre-vaccine peaks, the region hasn’t seen the impact the delta variant wave has brought on other parts of the country.

According to the Associated Press, full vaccination rates across the six New England states range from a high of 69.4% in Vermont to 61.5% in New Hampshire. Despite the relatively high vaccination rates there are still hundreds of thousands of people across the region who, for one reason or another, remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to infection.