US reports just 32K new COVID cases - the least since September - while Florida s daily infection rate falls lower than Michigan s OR NYC s despite the Sunshine State seeing a 16% rise in hospitalizations this month as variants take hold
On Sunday, the U.S. recorded 32,065 new coronavirus cases, which is the lowest figure since September 8, when 26,387 new infections were reported
Additionally, 279 deaths were reported, marking the seventeenth-straight day in a row that fatalities have been below 1,000
Forty-seven states are reporting steady or declining cases with just three states, Alabama, Arizona and Oregon, reporting upticks
Hospitalizations in Florida have increased 16% since April 1 and three counties in southern Florida - Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach - are reporting a 12% increase
For a few weeks in March, South Florida hospital workers took a breath and thought the state was on the right track with coronavirus cases. But in April, the situation shifted again and COVID hospitalizations are increasing.
The number of Florida seniors entering the hospital for COVID dropped sharply over the past month, an indication that the vaccination campaign begun in December has been effective in protecting the group most vulnerable to the disease.
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Memorial Healthcare quickly vaccinating COVID-19 frontline workers
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MIRAMAR, Fla. – Tuesday marks Day 2 of COVID-19 vaccinations for Memorial Healthcare System frontline workers, with the hospital saying it can inoculate 120 staff members each hour.
“They’re tired. Some of them are working their fourth and fifth 12-hour shifts a week and they’re ready for this to be over,” Chief Nursing Executive Maggie Hansen said of the long battle against the virus.
Nearly 20,000 doses of the new coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer arrived Monday morning to the Memorial Healthcare System in Broward. Jackson Memorial in Miami-Dade was receiving their first shipment Tuesday.