Following up on Florida and their healthcare situation despite the massive number of cases being reported:
“I know we always have a concern about beds and what is available in the county for our residents,” said Dr. Raul Pino, health officer at the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, during a press briefing on Monday. “Although we have seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations, the systems are reporting that they are not concerned about the need for surge yet as a system. It could be that a hospital has more cases than another and things have to reshuffled on readjust[ed].”
"Hospitals have attributed some of the reduced capacity to their return to normal operations, including restarting elective procedures that were put on hold for several weeks. Central Florida hospitals say they have enough capacity even though the COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have been steadily increasing."
"“I think there’s a lot of misconception in the general public. When you hear that, let’s just say our Gainesville campus is 90% full, that’s a good thing, because we’re usually closer to 100% full because we need to run fully to serve our community,” said Dr. David Nelson, president of UF Health"
"Meanwhile, DeSantis pointed out on Monday that the death rate from COVID-19 has been less than 2%, which is lower than other states. In Central Florida, Orange County’s death rate is much lower than the state average at 0.4%. The rate at Lake, Osceola and Seminole is 1%."
Source:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coro...4hy-story.html