workers and even declaring states of emergency. for more we welcome to the broadcast the chief medical officer at the boca raton regional hospital. thank you so much for being with us, doctor. these numbers, in a single month your state went from about 1,300 cases a day to now more than 17,000. the miami herald did the math. that s a 1241% increase. what is it like on the ground there? first of all, thank you for having me. the situation in florida is fairly dire. we ve seen a significant uptick in our number of patients who are admitted to the hospital with covid. just to give you a sense of it, six weeks ago in south baptist health in florida, our ten hospitals, we had 70 patients