Florida Becoming Epicenter Of Coronavirus Outbreak

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Florida is becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and conscionable this week, cases jumped 50 percent, with much than 110,000 caller cases reported.

Case numbers are present backmost to wherever they were successful January earlier the vaccine became available.

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“There is nary higher hazard country successful the United States than we’re seeing here,” said Dr. Aileen Marty, FIU infectious illness expert.

“The numbers that we’re seeing are unbelievable, conscionable unbelievably frightening.”

According to the Florida Health Department, the caller positivity complaint for each of Florida is astatine 18.1%. In Broward, it’s 14%, Miami-Dade is astatine 12.1%, and Monroe County is astatine 16.2%.

And according to the Florida Hospital Association, COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing past year’s peak.

Florida present has much radical hospitalized than immoderate different state.

Dr. Yvonne Johnson, Chief Medical Officer astatine Baptist South Miami Hospital, said the fig of patients successful her COVID ward has quadrupled successful the past 3 weeks.

“Eighty to eighty-five percent of those radical who are hospitalized are unvaccinated. And 100 percent of the radical successful my IUC are unvaccinated. All those radical are suffering unnecessarily.”

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Other hospitals like Memorial Health Care System accidental they are overwhelmed

“This morning, we had implicit 420 patients with COVID. And 55 are successful the ICU.”

“In the ICU, 55 radical are warring for their lives and lone 1 of them is unvaccinated.”

“Most of the patients are successful their 30s and 40s and it is precise bittersweet to person idiosyncratic dice successful the ICU by themselves without a interaction of someone’s look of seeing loved ones,” said Juana Mejia, a COVID ICU caregiver manager.

According to the Florida Health Department, 61% of the colonisation is vaccinated.

While immoderate inactive take not to get their vaccine Friday astatine Tropical Parkm radical said the Delta variant has alarmed them.

“I’m getting it for the archetypal clip due to the fact that of the caller variant.”

This pistillate brought her 85-year-old grandma.

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“We were conscionable scared, but present it’s truthful contagious. So, we needed to bash it.”

Jessica Vallejo