Florida hospitals facing record COVID-19 surge expand units, limit visitors again
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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.
"It’s an overwhelming demand in the hospitals right now," said Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association. "Now we’re dealing with a relatively new variant mutation. The dramatic increase is so different than last summer" when the previous records were set. Florida is now leading the nation in per capita hospitalizations for COVID-19. The state had 10,389 COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday, according to the hospital association. That's almost 200 more than Sunday, when the state broke the previous record set on July 23, 2020, more than a half-year before vaccinations started becoming widespread. It then had 10,170 hospitalizations. More than 39,000 Floridians have died since March 2020, including more than 400 last week.More Related News