A 47-year-old Navy reservist and former Ada County sheriff’s deputy died Monday while hospitalized with COVID-19-related complications, according to the Navy Times.
Navy Reserve Master-at-Arms 1st Class Allen Hillman, a Boise native, was a member of the Navy Reserve Volunteer Training Unit in Boise, according to The Associated Press.
The Idaho Statesman reports COVID-19 cases are surging in Idaho and hospital beds are again filling up, something public health officials are trying to address, and have tied to the spread of the highly contagious delta variant and the state’s low vaccination rate, which is below 50%.
It is unknown whether Hillman had received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Since early June, the number of active COVID-19 cases among sailors has risen from less than 250 to more than 800.
On Saturday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that more than 70% of military personnel have gotten at least one dose of a vaccine.
