Over the last few weeks, the number of patients with COVID-19 being treated at Lakeland Regional Health has steadily risen, and we are seeing a younger demographic in many cases, Hamilton said. We suspect the Delta variant with its ease in spreading is causing many of these infections.
Statewide, new cases nearly doubled week-to-week, jumping to 45,603 new infections this week. Nearly 20% of the nation s new coronavirus infections are happening in Florida, one of four states seeing a significant rise in cases, as The Hill reports.
Both Polk and the state saw upticks in their weekly positivity rates among those being tested for the virus. Florida s weekly positive rate increased from 7.8% to 11.5% this week, breaking above the 10% threshold often cited during the pandemic for wide community spread.
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1 minute ago Pandemic Is Not Over : Florida Republican Describes Harrowing COVID-19 Ordeal
James Ring, president of the Lakeland GOP, said he hadn t taken the time to get vaccinated yet.
A Florida Republican official has urged people to get vaccinated and wear masks after he got badly sick with COVID-19 last month and feared he “wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital alive.”
James Ring, president of the Republican Party of Lakeland, Florida, said he had grown complacent about remembering to wear a mask and hadn’t gotten around to getting vaccinated yet.
The former Lakeland Police sergeant and U.S. Army Reserve chief warrant officer, who was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, described himself in a Facebook post as a healthy 39-year-old with no pre-existing conditions. Because of that, he said, he had “always haphazardly assumed it wouldn’t be that bad if I caught the virus.”