Florida reports record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations
Source: NBC News
Florida shattered its record for weekly hospitalizations, making it one of the biggest coronavirus hot spots in the nation.
Some 3,355 people were admitted to Florida hospitals from Sunday, Aug. 2, to Monday, the states COVID-19 dashboard showed.
Last Wednesday alone, 621 people were admitted to hospitals, The Orlando Sentinel reported. And in total, 30,785 people have been hospitalized in the state with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
These are devastating numbers, Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, told NBC News.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-reports-record-number-covid-19-hospitalizations-n1236286
I can see why DeSantis shutdown testing ostensibly due to the storm, but that does not stop people from going to the hospital.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Oh, that's right, I'm a no good commie, pinko, atheist.
Never mind.
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)Hospitalization is a good barometer to determine whether the huge drop in cases is legit. I don't trust TX or FL to report Covid data accurately.
LisaL
(44,980 posts)But unless we are Trump, we can figure out that doesn't stop the cases, do we?
lark
(23,182 posts)Not one word in the paper when they reopened, so many people aren't aware of this. They opened last Wed. but to this day, not one word is in the local repug rag calling itself the newspaper.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Rally (in South Dakota) over the weekend?...
magicarpet
(14,202 posts).... meet up fiasco shows in the Covid hospitalization and death stats all over the country.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)cannot imagine how our healthcare workers handle all of this...Heard them going home last night
in Colorado on US 36...