Just days after Mayor Jerry Demings (D) of Orange County, Florida, declared the Orlando area to be in a “crisis mode,” new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have soared to their highest levels throughout the entire pandemic, as officials implore residents to get vaccinated and wear masks.
Demings said Wednesday that there were 1,371 new cases reported the day before in the county, which includes Orlando—the most yet in a single day.
On Thursday, officials with the largest health care system in central Florida, AdventHealth, said it had admitted around 1,000 patients with Covid, a new pandemic high.
The news comes after the hospital’s chief medical officer said on Monday that AdventHealth had run out of ICU space and was postponing elective procedures to free up resources.
Demings signed an executive order on Wednesday declaring a state of emergency, requiring masks inside of county facilities and mandating that all county employees be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30.
90%. That’s about how many of the AdventHealth patients hospitalized with Covid-19 are unvaccinated, hospital epidemiologist Dr. Vincent Hsu said.
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