I work as a paramedic in the DFW Metroplex... I understand this is anecdotal but I think it's safe to say the CDC numbers for hospital admissions are bullshit.

COVID "cases" are definitely up here, we have been running more and more each day after it was almost non existent for months. I ask every COVID patient I have if they have been vaccinated and so far my tally is 80% are fully vaccinated. I spoke with some nurses at a local hospital working on the COVID floor, they say it's the same up there, "the vast majority that are admitted have been vaccinated." Every one I have treated is mildly sick with flu-like symptoms and don't even need an ambulance, much less a hospital.

It's a clown world we are living in