Jacksonville has become a hot spot in Florida for COVID-19 hospitalizations.
A day after reporting 32 new patients in a 24-hour period, Baptist Health on Wednesday reported 61 new COVID-19-positive patients four of them children admitted on Tuesday. Northeast Florida has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s never been as bad as it is now, wrote Michael A. Mayo, CEO of Baptist Health in a recent Facebook post. Baptist Health is seeing an all-time high of COVID-19 hospitalizations, Mayo continued. Our hard-working health care workers have fought hard against this virus for more than a year. But this latest surge has led to a truly critical moment for our community.
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Baptist Health seeing an ‘all-time high’ of COVID-19 hospitalizations
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Baptist Health seeing an ‘all-time high’ of COVID-19 hospitalizations
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In a statement Tuesday, Baptist Health’s president and CEO says Northeast Florida has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, “but it’s never been as bad as it is now.”
Michael Mayo, Baptist’s CEO, writes that the company’s hospitals are seeing an all-time high of COVID-19-related hospitalizations. He said on Tuesday, the number of patients hospitalized at Baptist hospitals for COVID surpassed 400.
“Though this figure changes daily, the percentage of unvaccinated patients has consistently stayed above 97% during this surge,” Mayo writes.
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