“This surge is actually much bigger than anything that we've seen before.” Dr. Hiren Mehta describes the unbearable conditions inside UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen across much of the South.
are growing weary and they say their patients are coming in younger and sicker than at any previous time during the pandemic.
"The patients that we are seeing now are actually much younger than what we used to see in the initial [COVID-19] wave in January and February. The patients are much sicker," Dr. Hiren Mehta, a critical care physician at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, told ABC News.Dr.
"They're staying on a ventilator longer, and they are in the intensive care unit for a much longer duration," he added. Jeremy Lusong, a nurse at the same hospital, told ABC News that she'd become frustrated because the majority of her patients hadn't been vaccinated."We've been getting more sicker patients [with] COVID cases," said Lusong."There is a vaccine that the government has made available for the community to get, but it looks like there are a couple of people who are still undecided about it and now we're seeing those cases.
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