The tourism destination is now recording as many cases as during its peak in 2020.
that prohibits local and county governments from enforcing Covid-19 restrictions and imposing penalties on those who don’t comply.
The area’s hospital system AdventHealth is now in “red status,” which means it’s imposing additional measures like delaying elective procedures, and the area’s hospitals now have 862 Covid-19 inpatients, as compared with 900 during a peak in January. AdventHealth chief medical officer Dr. Victor Herrera said Monday the Covid-19 surge is “stretching our capacity,” but said the area hospitals would have the necessary resources and space “to meet the demands of our community” even if cases continue to rise.
Herrera said the county’s spike in cases is “clearly” a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” and “based on what we’ve seen,” the chances of fully vaccinated people being hospitalized “are very low, probably way less than 1%.”“Many of you cannot afford to get sick, many of you do not want to get sick, you do not want to infect your family,” Demings said Monday. “So the time really is now, like no other time in our community, for you to step up to the plate and get vaccinated.”61.59%.
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