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The numbers have been steadily increasing along with cases. On Friday there were 1,303 hospital inpatients with Covid and that climbed to 1,352 on Monday.
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There are more patients and, in some places, not enough health care workers to go around. Research shows the crowding will impact care and increase mortality for all patients.
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Thousands of kids in Florida are testing positive for the coronavirus. Doctors say hospitals are seeing about as many patients as they did during the delta surge.
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Between Sunday and Thursday hospitalizations rose 55 percent to 8,406 people. Nearly 1,000 people were in intensive care beds.
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Baptist Health and Ascension St. Vincent in Jacksonville both reported rising caseloads Wednesday. Statewide, the number nearly doubled in a week.
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Collins is retiring after 12 years of leading the federal health agency. He parts with a warning about the dangers of yielding to pandemic fatigue. "The virus is not tired of us," he says.
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As Florida schools opened their doors to students — some maskless — the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 has increased more than tenfold.
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A COVID vaccine for children younger than 12 is not yet available, but research is well underway and the first shot for some kids in this age group is expected in the fall, doctors say.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Downtown Jacksonville Thursday touting Regeneron, an antibody treatment for those infected with the coronavirus.
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Those who end up in a hospital for COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized in the future for additional health problems related to a COVID-19 complication, researchers found.
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Beds are filling up in at one of the busiest hospitals in Palm Beach County with the majority of the COVID-positive patients being unvaccinated people. Health officials urge vaccination to help combat the surge.