Hospital admissions of coronavirus patients are soaring in Florida. At least two areas in the state surpassed the previous peaks of last summer's surge, prompting calls by local officials for the governor to declare an emergency.
Signage stands at the ready in case COVID-19 testing at Barnett Park reaches capacity, as cars wait in line in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, July 29, 2021. The line stretched through the park for more than a mile out to West Colonial Drive near the Central Florida Fairgrounds. Orange County is under a state of emergency as coronavirus infections skyrocket in Central Florida. The Barnett Park site is testing 1,000 people a day and has closed early in recent days due capacity limits.
In Brevard County, two hospitals began setting up treatment tents at its emergency departments. And at a Fort Lauderdale park, a long line of cars snaked around a testing site, recalling the first weeks of the pandemic last year. AdventHealth said Thursday it had reached a new high on Thursday since the pandemic began with about 1,000 COVID-19 hospitalized patients across its system in central Florida. Twelve hospitals in the state are reporting critical staffing shortages to the federal government.
And Walt Disney World also announced this week that it would again be requiring the use of masks indoors. On Wednesday, the governor mocked new federal guidelines recommending use of masks even for those vaccinated against COVID-19. He also took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, who recently said the U.S. is in anDeSantis said Florida would “choose freedom over Fauci-ism.”
DeSantis said he opposes those measures because they were ineffective and “had catastrophic consequences” for the economy.
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