Hospitals are battling steep increases in new COVID-19 cases, with Florida leading the nation. On Friday, the most recent day with complete statistics, Florida added 13,256 new cases figures comparable to the disease s prior local peak in January, when the state regularly recorded 10,000 or more infections per day.
Leading causes for the current wave are the highly contagious delta variant primarily among people who are unvaccinated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is weighing revising their COVID-19 guidelines to recommend that even fully vaccinated individuals wear masks in public.
A laundry list of medical groups the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Nursing Association, American Psychiatric Association and 53 other medical associations has called for mandatory vaccines for health care workers.
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I will be frank and tell you we’ve had some of those same hesitancy questions even amongst our own staff, Haley said in a conference call with area elected officials and community leaders. We’re barely just over 50 to 60 percent of our staff that are vaccinated at this point and it’s creating its own unique challenges.
He said he walked through the UF Health campus on Friday with a pharmacist talking to employees who hadn t been vaccinated, offering to give them the shot on the spot.
Haley said among patients being treated at UF Health Jacksonville, 90 percent did not get the vaccine. He said 5 percent had not completed all the doses for their vaccinations or had not yet gone long enough from the last dose to achieve fully vaccinated status.