The state has recorded record-breaking COVID figures multiple times over the past month, as the Delta variant continues to spread across the country.
"The numbers of cases in our hospitals in children and our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed," Marty said about the increasing amount of children hospitalized.
"Our pediatricians, the nursing, the staff are exhausted, and the children are suffering. And it is absolutely devastating ... Our children are very much affected. We've never seen numbers like this before." Dr. Kenneth Alexander, chief of the infectious diseases division at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida, echoed Marty's comments toaffiliate WFTV on Friday and revealed that one child died last week while another is on a ventilator at the medical facility.
"The youngest patient who's in our hospital right now on a ventilator has no particular risk factors. The child that died had some complex underlying medical problems," Alexander said."Unlike early in the pandemic, when the virus didn't seem to do much in kids, now it's making kids sick." Nemours reported that seven children were receiving treatment at its facility on Friday, with two of the patients in the ICU, while the nearby Arnold Palmer Hospital had eight children at the medical center.
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