Hospital bed capacity correlates closely with vaccination rates. The states with higher vaccination rates are seeing fewer Covid patients take up hospital beds.
Everyone must now wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, including all students from kindergarten through college.
He's also requested ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile as the spread of the delta variant fills hospitals in the state with mostly unvaccinated patients. Almost 55% of Mississippi's ICU beds were filled with Covid patients as of Monday, and the state's seven-day average of nearly 3,300 new coronavirus cases as of Sunday jumped 57% from a week ago.
Florida's surge in cases comes as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to resist calls from the Biden administration and state advocacy groups to enforce mask mandates and other pandemic-related measures to help contain the massive outbreak. He signed an executive order and law in May that lifted all Covid restrictions across the state and permanently blocked local officials from enacting new ones starting July 1.
"We are on fire. When we have hospitals that are really worried about being able to take care of people, that's a crisis,' Health Director Dr. Elizabeth Char said at a press conference last week. "When we see this exponential growth in the amount of people that are getting infected with Covid-19 every day — 2,000 people in the last three days — that's a crisis. And at the point at which we overwhelm our resources, that's a disaster.
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