Hospitalizations in Florida have grown tenfold in just over a month with more than 95 per cent of COVID-19 patients unvaccinated
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Florida’s largest hospital systems are expanding their coronavirus units, limiting visitors and fearing staffing shortages as they deal with the statewide surge that is breaking records set last year for both cases and hospitalizations.
Federal health data released Saturday showed that Florida reported 21,683 new cases of the virus, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. Those numbers were recorded Friday and released Saturday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. Baptist Health in Miami has opened several new COVID-19 units at its hospitals to house its more than 220 infected patients, a 140% increase in two weeks, and is preparing to open another unit this week. Dr. Sergio Segarra, its medical director, said it was “a big mistake” for the state to drop mask mandates.
Jimenez urged the unvaccinated to get their shots to help medical workers and to prevent the state’s smaller hospitals from being overrun. He fears smaller institutions will soon be forced to send patients with broken bones and less serious illnesses to major regional hospitals, like his that are 50 or more miles away. Many of the small, rural counties outside Gainesville have vaccine rates of less than 40% and many are seeing some of the worst outbreaks on a per-capita basis.
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