Researchers focus on getting COVID-19 vaccine approved for children under 12 as cases spike
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Younger, unvaccinated COVID-19 patients filling Bay Area hospitals
Jennifer Holton reports
BRADENTON, Fla. - Numbers released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) show Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations are higher than last year’s record, before the vaccine was even developed. We didn’t have a solution [last year], Pinellas County Administrator Barry Burton said at a commission meeting Tuesday morning. We have a solution now. So we’re not talking about mandates, we’re talking about taking the solution and trying to curb the spread of this.
At Tampa General Hospital, 90% of COVID-19 designated beds are currently occupied, including 51 in the COVID ICU. BayCare Health says its number of COVID patients has quadrupled over the last four weeks. And at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, there are 131 COVID patients, up from 115 on Friday; 29 of those are in the ICU.