Florida Hospital Patients With COVID-19 Down By Nearly 1,200

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – The fig of patients with COVID-19 successful Florida hospitals dropped by astir 1,200 implicit the past week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services posted information Friday that showed 4,240 inpatients astatine 257 Florida hospitals had COVID-19, down from 5,414 inpatients reported October 1st. The fig of inpatients reported Friday was little than a 3rd of the 13,452 who were hospitalized connected September 8th.

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Hospitals were deed with surges of patients successful July and August arsenic the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus dispersed crossed the state. But the numbers gradually declined successful September and successful aboriginal October.

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The national information Friday showed that 1,103 patients with COVID-19 were successful intensive-care portion beds, down from 1,425 a week earlier.

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