Florida reports record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations

[TomCADem]

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 state’s 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

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I can see why DeSantis shutdown testing ostensibly due to the storm, but that does not stop people from going to the hospital.

[warmfeet]

1. Thoughts and prayers.

Oh, that's right, I'm a no good commie, pinko, atheist.

Never mind.

[Indykatie]

2. Florida Has Been Reporting a Drastic Drop in Daily Cases Which Seems Suspicious

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]

7. It's because they had a drastic drop in testing.

But unless we are Trump, we can figure out that doesn't stop the cases, do we?

[lark]

9. Huge announcements about all the state testing facilities closing.

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]

3. Maybe it's a little early, but wonder how many infected in FL were @ Sturgis Motorcycle

Rally (in South Dakota) over the weekend?...

[magicarpet]

4. It will be a few weeks before the numbers for that SD bike conflab,...

.... meet up fiasco shows in the Covid hospitalization and death stats all over the country.

[Illumination]

5. Hi magicarpet! Was traumatized watching the videos! It really upset me about the stupidy! Just

cannot imagine how our healthcare workers handle all of this...Heard them going home last night
in Colorado on US 36...

[Evolve Dammit]

6. I guess DeSantis failed in suppressing this info. Looooser! Sure he tried like hell...

[LisaL]

8. No doubt of that.