A critical care nurse in Miami, Florida, tells ABC's VictorOquendo 'with this current wave of COVID... the patients seem to be way more critical than the first wave.'
since reopening the economy and Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has faced significant criticism for his handling of the pandemic since the outbreak began.
People wait for a health assessment check-in before entering Jackson Memorial Hospital, as Miami-Dade County eases some of the lockdown measures put in place during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Miami, June 18, 2020.Carlos Migoya, Jackson Memorial's CEO, said the"warning signs" came around June as people started changing their behaviors.
Abbo and Spaulding both noted a common trend in the past few weeks: Younger people are getting sick. Both have seen an uptick in younger patients, a disproportionate impact on minority patients and more patients with preexisting conditions. "Just because you might be in your 20s, 30s and 40s, you could still come down with some pretty serious symptoms that require a longer term hospitalization," Abbo added."This pandemic is like when HIV started when people didn't know and infecting others," said Abbo."People were thinking, 'I don't have symptoms.' If we don't do something, this could have significant transmission.
Migoya doesn't believe the community is entirely to blame for the rise in cases, saying people in lower-income communities have no choice but to leave their homes to go to work. "The young person gets infected, they come home and they infect the mother or the grandmother," said Migoya."And that's where the challenges start coming."
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