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TALLAHASSEE – As of Tuesday morning, a grounds 11,515 Floridians were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Hospitals are reporting younger and healthier patients than successful erstwhile waves. Florida COVID hospitalizations grew by much than 1,100 overnight.

At Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, 66 of the 70 COVID patients were unvaccinated.

“We’re dealing with thing that could person been prevented,” said Dr. Dean Watson.

And infirmary officials said the demographics of the patients they’re seeing are rather antithetic than they’d seen successful past waves.

“It’s present attacking a younger population, individuals that are connected the aboveground healthier,” said Ryan Smith, the hospital’s main objective officer.

Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, said the full authorities is seeing a akin trend.

“It is perfectly attacking younger individuals much aggressively and putting them successful the infirmary than erstwhile COVID,” said Mayhew.

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According to the CDC, 60 Floridians are dying a time from COVID.

While that’s astir 3 times what was seen astatine the commencement of July, it’s importantly little past the astir 200 Floridians who were dying each time successful past year’s summertime and wintertime spikes.

“Hopefully, we volition not spot the complaint of deaths arsenic we experienced successful the erstwhile surges,” said Mayhew.

As for however agelong this caller question volition last, immoderate aesculapian professionals are looking to information coming retired of the United Kingdom, which was deed by the delta variant astir a period earlier the U.S. began seeing cases spike.

“They’re trending down now. We anticipation to spot a inclination down implicit the adjacent 4 to 5 weeks,” said Watson.

And arsenic cases and hospitalizations person increased, the authorities has seen an uptick successful Floridians getting vaccinated. More than 330,000 got a changeable past week.

Currently, 61% of eligible Floridians person gotten astatine slightest 1 changeable of the COVID vaccine.

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