A week ago, Jordan Rodriguez and his fiancée met two taco friends, bird wings and beer jugs at a local pub in Pembroke Pines, Florida, one of the many outings the 38-year-old has enjoyed since the sun. The state reopened in May.
“I wouldn’t say I feel safer, but I started to venture a little,” Rodriguez told the Daily Beast. “I put on a face mask every time I faint and have been germaphobe, so I wash my hands regularly with soap.”
I didn’t know that the coronavirus was probably already in the gestation of it. The next morning, Rodriguez felt ugly when he woke up. Initially, he attributed it to a few too many beers. But as the day progressed, Rodriguez didn’t feel any better. “I took the temperature and had a 99.9 fever,” he says. “I knew I had to get tested.”
Rodriguez went to the emergency room at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida, near Weston, where he conducted a quick checkup to confirm that he was positive for COVID-19, he recalls. His fiancée and two friends were also reviewed, but they turned out to be negative, Rodriguez said. “Since that day, I have not felt any symptoms. I check my temperature and it hasn’t increased. But I was quarantined in my room.”
With the emergence of The COVID-19 of Sunshine State, as a monstrous hurricane, emergency rooms at South Florida’s pandemic epidemic epicentre are receiving more and more patients in their twenties and thirties with the coronavirus. This is consistent with Governor Ron DeSantis’ repeated explanation of the outbreak of instances in the state: that reckless youth are a major component of the problem. Although DeSantis acknowledges that they pose a threat to others, the implication of his assessment, according to critics, is that the state’s hospital formula is probably not overloaded.
But some local hospitals have already reached or are reaching their maximum capacity, and those services treat others like Rodriguez, who participated in a government-approved reopening, to inflate and have mild symptoms. These patients are sent back quickly, which poses the threat of spreading life-threatening respiratory diseases to the elderly circle of relatives, relatives, friends and strangers if not quarantined, experts warned.
In other words, the fitness formula is not yet underwater. But this may soon be, according to hospital employees, internal correspondence and experts familiar with state medical data. And the other people who send other asymptomatic youth on their way are at the forefront of the danger caused by a reopening that experts say has led the state to disaster road.
“We know from the knowledge that the instances are more youthful and we have a pretty clever concept that this is similar to the habit of other young people who have a bar trend and parties at home,” said Cindy Prins, professor of epidemiology at the University. Florida “We have a tendency to take more threats and live when we are younger. They would not be in danger of hospitalization, but they pose a threat to others.”
When the state in its block mode edition, the Cleveland Clinic had days when a single user with COVID-19 symptoms did not appear, according to an emergency nurse at the hospital who asked that her call not be used because she did not speak. on behalf of the hospital.
That’s changed.
“Now it’s about 10 a day, ” said the nurse. “I had seven the last night I worked. Everyone I’ve dealt with is between 20 and 50 years old.”
“They tested positive, but they’re not critical,” the nurse said in an interview last month. “We send them home with orders to take ibuprofen, rest and quarantine for 14 days.”
The number of hospital admissions, or other people taking beds, is less than the number of other people who come to get tested. The Cleveland Clinic’s Weston admits an average of about 3 COVID-19 patients per day and only 20% of inflamed hospital admissions were under the age of 40, a spokesman told the Daily Beast.
However, at a press convention on Sunday, Governor DeSantis said the increase in the number of COVID-19 instances in his state was largely due to other young people coming out and meeting in giant teams without caution, such as face mask and social estrangement. (It had also been under pressure in the past because the upward trajectory was partly due to higher tests and epidemics among predominantly Hispanic migrant farming communities.) The governor pointed out statistics that appeared that Floridians between the ages of 18 and 44 were the main propagators of The Most Recent Peak.
“You can’t control … are younger people. They’re going to do what they’re going to do,” DeSantis said.
According to the Miami Herald, the Florida Department of Health recorded 43,964 new instances of COVID-19 in the week of June 21-28, the weekly number of infections to date. The state also set records for single-day counts over the weekend. Saturday’s 9585 new instances set a new one-day record that broke the record lasted just 24 hours earlier, when the state reported approximately 9,000 new instances.
The latest update to Tuesday’s fitness department showed that 52% of Florida’s 149,781 instances were others between the ages of 15 and 44. However, tracking demographics and the number of inflamed people in need of hospital care is more difficult. The fitness service does not publish the number of other recently hospitalized people, offering only the total number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. (Quoting the governor’s office, a reporter for the Miami Herald tweeted that the state would begin collecting and disseminating this knowledge later this week.)
Rebekah Jones, a former Florida Department of Health geographer who created the state’s COVID-19 dashboard and claims he fired for refusing to manipulate knowledge, told the Daily Beast that the fitness department’s knowledge of hospitalization was unreliable.
“The state has posted any criteria or parameters on how it determines whether an intensive care patient wants extensive care and can simply be kicked out of bed if a sick patient arrives,” he said. A spokesman for the state fitness branch responded to a request for comment on the story.
The Herald noted that Miami-Dade County, which has the most COVID-19 instances in the state, receives data on the number of beds in local hospitals that are made public, giving a little idea of the medical services that are about to be overwhelmed.
By Monday, the capacity of extensive care beds in Miami-Dade-area hospitals had reached 70% and the number of patients who admitted exceeded the number of patients who left, according to the county report. For example, on Saturday and Sunday, 250 new patients were admitted, while 186 were discharged. Some hospitals in the county were turning to their maximum capacity.
Homestead Hospital reached capacity last week, according to CBS4 Miami. And his dual facility, Baptist Hospital in Miami, saw his number of positive patients and suspected COVID-19 accumulating from 98 to 124 between Sunday and Monday morning, according to an internal memorandum received through The Daily Beast. The note indicated that Baptist actively transferred patients to other services in his network, but that all his hospitals were filling up quickly.
The paper also noted that Miami-Dade turns a closed hospital into a facility that will space HIV patients, in all likelihood offering relief to Homestead Hospital, which saw a large number of migrant farmworkers review COVID-19. This, at least, is consistent with the DeSantis line. County spokeswoman Patty April said the Miami-Dade hospital site would only skim COVID-19 patients from nursing homes being treated in hospitals, which in turn will lose more beds in domain hospitals. A spokesman for deSantis did not promptly respond to a request for comment on the story.
“We’re still in full capacity with other people waiting for beds,” said a nurse at Homestead Hospital who spoke to The Daily Beast on anonymity condition because his employer, Baptist Health South Florida, enacted a policy prohibiting media talk. “Most people with a positive COVID diagnosis are absolutely asymptomatic.”
A Baptist spokesman responded to a request for comment on the story.
At Adventure Hospital in North Miami-Dade, lifeguards are receiving more patients with COVID-19 symptoms comparable to the early days of the pandemic, according to a paramedic who works there and also spoke about the disease. Aventura has a non-media policy for employees. “Some of them are fans, but the maximum of them are stable,” the paramedic said, adding that they had also transported patients to the emergency room for reasons that are not COVID that are still tested and tested positive.
The paramedic was convinced that the number of other inflamed people would remain high, as Americans did not respect the precautions of social distance and face mask, as everyone said, fitness experts at DeSantis. “We see that many young people between the ages of 18 and 35 suffer from it,” the paramedic said. “Two of my colleagues are in poor physical condition now because they have it. Matrix… it’s nothing serious, but they have to stay home until they’re negative.”
The paramedic had not been tested, but was involved in the capture of COVID-19. “It’s very stressful … I’m starting to feel a little more involved with the infection just because I feel like I’m seeing a lot more COVID now than before.”
The spokesman for The Adventure Hospital returned two voicemail messages requesting comments.
Beyond the real possibility of infecting loved ones and frontline workers, young people showing mild to no symptoms can also disrupt businesses that have resumed regular work schedules.
Karlie McCutcheson, a 23-year-old from Jacksonville, told the Daily Beast that she tested positive on Saturday after feeling exhausted last week. “I was getting absurdly tired at work,” McCutcheson said. “Even my bosses have noticed. But it wasn’t until Friday night that I thought I had stayed COVID.”
He had picked up food from Chipotle’s, McCutcheson said. “I bit my food and couldn’t taste anything,” he said, conveying one of the revealing signs of COVID-19. When he informed his bosses of his positive check over the weekend, they closed the office, McCutcheson said. “Everyone works from home and wants to be checked,” she says. “Every worker had to go through one by one to collect their belongings.”
McCutcheson also believes his father and brother stayed with COVID-19 when they went to dinner on Father’s Day two Sundays ago. His father and brother also tested positive last week. On Monday, Jacksonville, the alleged acceptance speech to President Donald Trump’s Republican Convention last August, passed a mandatory masking requirement for public and closed places to curb the spread of the community.
McCutcheson said she had the idea that she won her boyfriend’s COVID-19 before Father’s Day when they met in their apartment. He tested positive one moment after his meeting. “In Jacksonville, coVID seems to be no longer a big deal,” he said. “Everyone had returned to a general life.”
Back at Pembroke Pines, Rodriguez said he would remain abducted in his room until he got a negative result for COVID-19, and indicated that he needs to infect his fiancée or relatives, who live with them.
“It sucks,” he says. “I just read books, watch YouTube videos and play all kinds of TV shows. But I don’t need to be guilty about giving it to anyone.”
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