Fort Lauderdale: The South Florida Hospital chain suspends elective operations and places the bed in the conference room, auditorium and even a cafeteria because more patients are looking for care for Covid-19.
“We saw a surge as we had never seen before in terms of patients who came, ‘Head of the Medical Officer of the Memorial Health System Dr.
Marc NAPP said on Wednesday during a press conference at Hollywood.
The NAPP they have opened 250 additional.
The bed in six hospitals Warning in Broward County.
Unlike spring and summer last year passed when many sick people try to avoid hospitals for fear of capturing viruses, patients suffering from other diseases also seek care now, NAPP is explained.
On Wednesday, there are more than 1,600 patients Inpatient is recognized for staying overnight at the system facility.
Usually, the health system does not have more than 1,400 inpatients under care at a time.
“This is the highest number of patient warnings ever seen,” he said.
“It’s a thin number that comes at the same time.
There are only so many beds, so many doctors, just so many nurses,” NAPP said.
Throughout Florida, more than 12,000 patients were hospitalized with Covid-19 on Wednesday, and nearly 2,500 of them were on the ICU bed.
On Tuesday, control centers and disease prevention reported more than 50,000 new Covid-19 cases in Florida during the span of three days, raising an average of seven days to one of the highest calculations since then.
Pandemic starts.
In total, the state has seen more than 2.6 million cases and 39,179 deaths.
Governor Ron Desantis has rejected the call to enforce the CDC recommendations that almost everyone uses masks to the vaccination rate increased significantly.
Republican leaders say decide whether to cover up or get shots must remain an individual choice, and while it is important to make the Florida economy move.
“Florida is a free country, and we will empower our people.
We will not allow Joe Biden and flunke the bureaucracy to come and order the rights and freedom of Floridians, ” Desantis, who has explored the possibility of running for the President in 2024, said in a fundraising Wednesday night.
In Memorial, NAPP said the patient was treated because Covid-19 was largely not vaccinated.
The Covid-19 vaccine was designed to prevent severe diseases and deaths, and no one was 100% effective, so that public health experts Always expect a small number of “breakthroughs’ cases with lighter infections among those who are sick in this case the latest surge takes all the necessary prevention measures.
Retired Fortress Lauderdale Doug and gambling custer they do everything that is ordered to ward off the virus.
They were both carried out and continued to wear a mask at the grocery store, even when the mandate was revoked.
So gambling custer, 75, sore throat a few weeks ago, he didn’t think too much about it.
Even with coughing and fever, “which never made sense that it could be covid,” he said.
Her 80-year-old husband also suffered from coughing, shivering and a terrible headache.
So after a friend told him that some new people were They just contacted with a positive test, he was tested for Covid at the urgent care center, only to be safe.
Her husband refused.
He was surprised when the test was positive.
His husband’s condition deteriorated quickly.
He struggled to breathe and spent five days in the hospital, at Where did they put it in oxygen.
He began to feel better, but was worried for her husband, a retired teacher.
With the hospital now crowded, he is not allowed to visit him.
Their daughter flies home to help.
“Keep careful and careful and take all the actions you can.
Even though you think you are immune to get Covid, you are still susceptible to him, ” he said in a telephone interview.
“Not only you if you choose not to get vaccinations,” he said sitting next to her husband, who still uses oxygen and slowly gets Return to his strength.
“You make it more difficult for others, and to bring us back to life normality in our country.
“” Immunization is there.
We’ve been long enough to know that it helps people even if they are sick with it, like us, you are most likely to be placed in a ventilator, you tend to be hospitalized, “he said.” I don’t hospitalized.
You tend to make it severe.
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