12 COVID-19 deaths in 4 days at UF Health Jacksonville

The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Until aboriginal June, the Florida Department of Health provided a breakdown of wherever nonmigratory deaths from COVID-19 occurred. Over the past 2 months, 2,094 much residents person died with the microorganism successful the state, with nary denotation wherever they lived.

On Wednesday afternoon, UF Health Jacksonville broke the silence, telling News4Jax determination were 4 COVID-19 deaths astatine their 2 hospitals successful June, 37 successful July and 9 successful the archetypal 3 days of August. Thursday morning, UF Health reported 3 further deaths, bringing the full truthful acold this period to 12 -- an mean of 3 each day.

We should enactment that UF Health treats patients beyond Duval County, truthful it’s not known for definite that the 53 deaths this summertime were of Jacksonville residents. So far, nary different country hospitals person released the fig of patients with COVID-19 who person died astatine their facilities.

Florida reported 140 caller COVID-19 deaths connected Tuesday, astir 23% of the deaths reported nationally, according to national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information updated Wednesday.

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A News Service of Florida reappraisal of the information shows that Florida’s reported decease toll Tuesday outpaced immoderate different state, with Louisiana and Texas reporting 59 deaths and 52 deaths, respectively.

Florida besides reported 148 deaths connected July 22, which made the authorities liable for astir 38% of the deaths reported nationally for those days.

The overmuch much contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continues to rage crossed Florida, sending different 526 radical to the infirmary and expanding the state’s record-setting full of hospitalizations to 12,041.

Of those, 135 are pediatric patients statewide.

Hospitals statewide and locally person reported numbers of coronavirus patients admitted and successful their intensive attraction units expanding successful caller weeks. Starting past week, section hospitals said they had seen peaks higher than past summertime oregon winter, erstwhile Florida saw its 2 erstwhile spikes of COVID-19 cases. On Sunday, Mayo Clinic’s infirmary notified the authorities it had exceeded its fig of licensed diligent beds and was activating its surge capableness plan.

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“Our hospitals are incredibly busy,” Jacksonville Mayor Curry said Wednesday during a roundtable with Gov. Ron DeSantis and infirmary CEOs. “There’s a batch of discussion, a batch of radical are acrophobic and panicking. From my perspective, the solution is to get vaccinated. I’m not suggesting we coerce oregon unit oregon mandate radical to get vaccinated. But we support moving unneurotic to amended them that the vaccine is effective, it volition support you retired of the infirmary and support you from getting really, truly sick.”

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