‘Bracing for the worst’ in Florida’s COVID-19 red zone
“As quickly as one COVID-19 patient is discharged, another fills a hospital bed in northeast Florida, the hot zone of the state’s latest surge. And the patients at Baptist Health’s five hospitals across Jacksonville are younger and getting sick faster from the coronavirus than people did last summer.
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‘Jacksonville is kind of the epicenter of this. They had one of the lowest vaccination rates going into July and that has probably really come back to bite them,’ said Justin Senior, CEO of the Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance, which represents some of the largest hospitals in the state.”