Crews return to their ambulances, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
The number of people hospitalized in Florida because of COVID-19 is continuing at a record pace, according to the Florida Hospital Association.
The industry group said 10,389 people were hospitalized Monday for COVID-19 - the second day in a row that the number was over 10,000 and the highest daily total since the start of the pandemic.
During an interview with MSNBC, Mary Mayhew, the president and CEO of the association, called the increase “dramatic” and said the disease is “attacking a younger population and putting them in the hospital.” Mayhew said 50 percent of the people hospitalized are between ages 25 and 55. She also said 96 percent of people hospitalized were unvaccinated.
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Nearly four months since the first COVID-19 vaccines were given to health care workers, distribution has slowly built to a network of 770 vaccination sites, many of them chain pharmacies.
While there are primary care doctors’ offices who have entered the fold, there’s frustration voiced by such family care practices that their pre-existing relationships with patients aren’t being prioritized as a point of vaccination.
“Primary care physician practices are receiving hundreds of calls each day from their patients asking if their practice has the vaccine and, if not, if they can be put on a list just in case they receive any,” the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians said in a written statement received Thursday by New Jersey 101.5.
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