Overwhelmed South Florida Hospitals Seeing Younger COVID Patients

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Florida continues to beryllium the epicenter of the COVID-19 surge, with the authorities breaking a single-day grounds and the surge has been hectic successful hospitals.

Since the commencement of the pandemic, 22,783 caller cases were reported connected Thursday, on with 199 deaths, according to the CDC.

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“I don’t deliberation determination is ever a clip successful my beingness successful my vocation that I person seen thing similar this. This surge was aggravated implicit the past 18 months, but thing similar what are seeing now,” said Chief Executive Officer of Broward Health Medical Center Heather Havericak.

Havericak said their infirmary is overwhelmed, arsenic they support seeing younger and younger patients with the virus.

“We person had to bring successful galore question nurses, and bureau nurses conscionable to assistance enactment our unit that are here. The unit that is present are conscionable exhausted, frustrated. They person been doing this present for 18 months.”

And crossed South Florida, determination is simply a shortage of nurses.

This is simply a look wrong of the COVID Intensive Care Unit astatine Jackson Memorial Hospital and it is busy.

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“There’s a request for doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists,” said COVID ICU caregiver Osvaldo Piniero.

“We request everyone we tin for the nursing. The much unit we get, the much hands and eyes we tin the amended it is for the patients.”

During a roundtable treatment this week with the governor, CEO Carlos Migoya said nurses were leaving for higher-paying jobs and said efforts are being stepped up to enlistee from nursing schools and different areas.

But the bulk of the patients successful ICU, are those who are not vaccinated.

A caller survey shows that adjacent radical who are recovered from the microorganism are urged to get vaccinated. The survey showed those who ignored that proposal had doubly the hazard of getting infected as those who are not vaccinated.

Research has besides shown getting the vaccine gives you a boost to earthy immunity, including extortion against caller mutants.

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“Until the assemblage gets the vaccine, we volition not beryllium capable to determination from this crisis,” said Havericak.

Jessica Vallejo