Hospitalizations are up, don’t be one of them-Vaccinate!

Jacksonville FL

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In an email sent to Baptist Health employees last week, hospital leaders warned of a resurgence in new cases of the coronavirus and said new patients requiring intensive care in recent days are “shockingly young.” Dr Timothy Groover said the surge in younger patients could be tied to the rise of the Delta variant. “Younger, sicker, quicker, that’s what we call the Delta variant,” Groover said. “No one imagined that we would see this number tick up so quickly.” Baptist Health said half of its now 149 cases, which is 13 more than yesterday, might be the Delta variant. Groover said the data isn’t available yet, but he believes the virus is also deadlier. New infections have spiked in Florida, which reported 23,697 new cases in its weekly situational report last week. That’s nearly double the number of new infections the state reported the week before. Of the new cases, Jacksonville had 2,127, surpassing 2,000 cases in a week for the first time since February. The Florida Department of Health said Tuesday that 31 cases of the Delta variant had been detected in Duval County as of July 1. According to the agency, data shows the variant makes up 277 of 21,866, or 1%, of sampled cases throughout the state, but experts say that number could be misleading. “I think there is a certain relaxation that is taking place that’s inappropriate,” Groover said of people wearing masks less often and not social distancing. “I think it’s too soon to let your guard down I think it’s time now as a community to step it up and say we see the spike how are we going to respond to it. Given what we’ve learned the first time around it’s time for us to step up and be responsible.” Deniers will become die-ers. Just saying… I got email from one guy…he expressed, happily, that he is a racist and that is a reason that he supports trump. He also said a lot of other racist crap that just further convinced me that we have a hard fight ahead of us. We MUST confront this rise in white supremacy and nationalism. It is unjust and undemocratic, and wrong! I WILL NEVER SUPPORT BROWN SHIRTS IN AMERICA!