Florida breaks record for daily COVID hospitalizations

Sunday’s figure surpasses the previous daily record reached before vaccines were available in the US.

Florida currently leads the US in per capita hospitalisation for COVID-19 [File: Lynne Sladky/AP Photo]
Florida currently leads the US in per capita hospitalisation for COVID-19 [File: Lynne Sladky/AP Photo]

The US state of Florida has broken its previous daily record for the number of people hospitalised for COVID-19.

The state had 10,207 people hospitalised with confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday, according to data reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

That passes the previous record – reached in the height of the pandemic and before vaccines were available –  of 10,170 hospitalisations on July 23 last year, according to the Florida Hospital Association.

The current data underscores a new surge in infections across the US as large segments of the population remain unvaccinated – despite widespread access – and the highly infectious Delta variant continues to ravage the country.

The latest wave has been dubbed by health officials as an “outbreak of the unvaccinated”.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the US rose from 30,887 on July 16 to 77,827 on July 30…….more here

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