'All the beds are taken up by COVID victims': Hospitals in the U.S. South are running out of space or staff

COVID-19 hospitalizations are reaching all-time highs in parts of the South, with some patients unable to get the care they would normally receive.

"Something very scary now is happening in the Southern United States. We are seeing this massive surge of hospitalizations of young people that we've never seen before in hospitals across the South," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

In the Miami area, "our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed," said Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious disease expert at Florida International University. Those two groups may be among the first to get an additional dose of vaccine, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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