About 95 of the hospital system s patients are in intensive care. Three of those are children at Baptist s Wolfson Children s Hospital.
UF Health Jacksonville reported 218 COVID-19 patients at its two local campuses, including 56 in intensive care, up from a total of 203 patients and 50 in intensive care on Friday morning, said spokesman Dan Leveton.
Florida s Agency for Health Care Administration, or AHCA, previously provided daily updates on COVID-19 admissions at statewide hospitals. However, those updates ceased, along with many other statistics from the Florida Department of Health, after June 3.
Baptist Health and UF Health Jacksonville are voluntarily releasing the numbers daily, but other local hospitals including Ascension St. Vincent s, Mayo Clinic, Memorial Hospital Jacksonville and Orange Park Medical Center are not.
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Lisa Wilson and her son, Jody, were among those to get vaccinated Wednesday. The numbers are going up, Lisa said when asked about what brought her out today. She added that Jody is around her mother a lot and they didn t want to risk exposing her.
As locals came out to get vaccinated at the pop-up, a new report from the Florida Hospital Association revealed that the City of Jacksonville was among the hardest hit by COVID-19 related hospitalizations in the state.
Still, vaccine hesitancy continues to be an issue. While the vaccine pop-up downtown was ready with 500 doses to put in arms Wednesday, interest was low through the afternoon with people trickling in only occasionally.