Help us help you by getting vaccinated.

That's the message from Warner Hospital CEO Paul Skowron who says the surge of COVID in Illinois hospitals got worse over the weekend and now they are seeing asymptomatic patients wanting to get tested and that is adding to the backlog of issues in the hospital now.

According to Skowron, they are close to joining central systems in not being able to accommodate the testing of asymptomatic patients. He indicates the regulations of requiring a negative test to participate in social events are also creating issues in places like Chicago.

Could those long lines for a test come to central Illinois? Skowron indicates it is his fear that will be what some places look like after the new year.

Skowron says nearly 80-percent of hospitalizations are the Delta variant and he hopes people will prepare themselves by getting vaccinated ahead of those New Year's gatherings.