Listen on What Next: What does it look like in a Florida hospital during the worst surge of the pandemic thus far?
The delta variant is making its way through the country, becoming the leading strain of the coronavirus and increasing case counts as it goes.
In few places is the crisis more severe than in Florida, where new daily case counts are hitting all-time highs and vaccination rates have leveled out around 50 percent. Gov. Ron DeSantis has refused to instate a mask mandate and insists that the spike is just a “seasonal wave”—even as health care workers are pushed to the brink trying to care for ill patients.
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