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COVID-19 hospitalizations have remained low in the days before Christmas, giving doctors hope that vaccines are doing their jobs at preventing severe illness.
Healthcare worker shortage adds strain as COVID hospitalizations rise in Florida
Briona Arradondo reports
TAMPA, Fla. - The latest COVID-19 infection surge is putting pressure on hospitals across Florida as the industry struggles with a worker shortage. Our hospitals around the state are seeing a fairly dramatic rate of increase in hospitalizations, a rate of increase that they did not experience previously in the past two surges. So that is happening over a shorter period of time, said Mary Mayhew, the president and CEO of Florida Hospital Association.
Mayhew said the total number of current COVID hospitalizations is still less than what was in January or last July. But time in front of doctors and nurses is in higher demand, even with non-COVID-related procedures.