Originally posted by Bashar Teg
(CNN)Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are surging and in Dallas County, Texas, there are "zero ICU beds left for children," county judge Clay Jenkins said in a news conference Friday morning."That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have Covid and need an ICU bed, we don't have one. Your child will wait for another child to die," Jenkins said. "Your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears."
remember how "children don't catch covid"? good job trumpers, murdering your own children with bro science, just because you needed to feel smarter than the medical community. i hope that all the politicizing, mockery, circlejerks, anti-vax/mask memes, etc were worth it.
but look at the bright side: having to witness all those needlessly dying american children is going to trigger literally every liberal. so that's good, right? congratulations Cult45 👆
Florida recorded 1,071 additional COVID-19 deaths in the Weekly Situation Report released Friday afternoon by the Florida Department of Health.
That total—similar to what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed for Florida in that agency's most recent seven-day total—represents the worst week for COVID-19 deaths since January and February, when the winter surge was at its deadliest.
On Friday, Florida reported that 40,766 people have now died of COVID-19 in Florida, through Thursday. Florida's cumulative death total has been rising fast in the past three or four weeks, suggesting the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations that started hitting Florida hospitals in mid-July are now turning fatal.
Florida, which makes up about 6.5% of the U.S. population, accounted for 16.9% of the country's newly confirmed cases on Thursday, based on data the state is reporting to the CDC. As of August 12th, the state's seven-day moving average of new cases was 21,375, up from a moving average of 4,469 on July 12th. That number represents roughly a 378% increase, stemming from the highly contagious delta variant.
Over the last week, from August 6–12, Florida reported 151,764 cases, and 1,071 deaths, according to the Florida Department of Health's weekly report, released on Fridays. The number of deaths reflect a 73.9% increase over last week, when the state reported 616 weekly deaths. The state's percent positivity held this past week at 18.5%, the report said. High positivity rates indicate community spread.