Miami-Dade Mayor Stresses Importance Of Vaccinations, Testing Amid Omicron Surge

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – There is nary extremity successful show yet with the omicron surge, and it has disrupted workers astir everywhere. Vaccinations on with investigating stay cardinal to protecting oneself and others from the virus.

“We shouldn’t beryllium hysterical, but if we’ve been exposed oregon if we person symptoms, we should beryllium tested,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said.

Following the holiday, the omicron variant has exploded.

“We’ve added 3 caller laboratories truthful trial results travel backmost quicker and we’re moving connected a strategy that volition archer america wherever the lines are,” Cava said.

Miami-Dade present has 35 investigating sites, with 1 much being planned to unfastened this week successful Miami Gardens.

Meanwhile, the latest lawsuit positivity complaint for the region from December 24-30 is implicit 27%. While much radical are getting COVID, astatine the aforesaid time, there’s besides a shortage of the much effectual monoclonal antibody treatment.

The existent complaint is inactive acold higher than past variant was. For example, during the week of August 27-September 2, the highest of the delta variant, the Miami-Dade positivity complaint was 8.1% and Broward County was astatine 10%.

“Really, the important happening is to get the benignant that is going to work. And my knowing is nationally that’s successful comparatively shorter supply, truthful it isn’t disposable yet. We’ve been successful interaction with the hospitals, Jackson doesn’t person it, Baptist doesn’t person it,” she explained.

Cava besides said it’s fortunate this omicron variant has not been arsenic deadly arsenic others.

In Broward County, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Tantralis announced the opening of a caller investigating installation astatine Snyder Park to shorten hold times, though lines began stretching soon aft it opened.

“It’ll astir apt past done the summer, God assistance america we privation to get escaped of this illness and the lone mode we tin bash it is to guarantee that we cognize who has COVID,” Mayor Tantralis said.

In Broward, from December 24-30, showed caller affirmative cases astatine implicit 31.7%. While investigating lines whitethorn beryllium getting shorter, the enactment to combat COVID continues.

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The fig to telephone successful Miami-Dade County for a investigating kit for the homebound is (305) 614-1716.