More than 10,000 Floridians are hospitalized with COVID-19, the most since the pandemic began.
According to data reported to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 10,207 people are hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases in Florida. That would surpass the previous record from July 23, 2020, more than a half-year before vaccinations started becoming widespread, when Florida had 10,170 hospitalizations, according to the Florida Hospital Association.
Florida now has the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations per capita in the country, according to the Associated Press. In the past week, the state has averaged 1,525 adult hospitalizations a day, and 35 daily pediatric hospitalizations.Â
The hospitalization record came one day after Florida registered its highest daily number of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic at 21,683 cases.
Cases and hospitalizations have risen sharply in the past month in Florida, fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant. On Friday, the state reported over 110,000 new COVID-19 in the past week — the highest weekly increase since the start of the year.
Still, only 50 percent of Florida is fully vaccinated, according to John Hopkins University.
