Florida ICU Could Hit Capacity 'In Days' As Health Care Workers Face Burnout
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🗓️ 13 July 2020
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On Sunday, Florida reported more than 15,000 positive coronavirus cases. At Jackson Memorial Hospital in South Florida, director of medical ICU Dr. David J. De La Zerda says beds are running and low — and so are nurses to staff them.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the weekend, Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards, a Democrat in a largely red state, |
| 0:05.3 | came around to something that he's been reluctant to do. |
| 0:18.4 | Like a lot of places in the deep south cases in Louisiana are surging. So now, masks are required there. |
| 0:26.4 | A lot of Republican leaders are still opposed to the mandate. One exception is Nick Hunter, |
| 0:32.0 | who's the mayor of Lake Charles. He's having a really hard time trying to convince people in the |
| 0:37.6 | community to wear masks. God help us if we've come to a point in our society where during the |
| 0:43.7 | middle of a pandemic, if we want to know medical or scientific information, we are trusting a meme on |
| 0:50.2 | Facebook or what my brother-in-law heard overheard at the supermarket. Also over the weekend, |
| 0:57.8 | President Trump in a photo op at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was seen wearing |
| 1:04.4 | a mask for the first time since the pandemic began. Coming up, a Florida ICU near capacity. |
| 1:12.0 | What doctors there say they need from the community. This is Consider this from NPR. Kelly McEvers is |
| 1:18.5 | off this week. I'm Elsa Chang and it is Monday, July 13th. |
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| 1:46.8 | So in late April, Florida was seeing fewer than a thousand daily cases of COVID-19. |
| 1:52.8 | And as the state prepared to enter its first phase of reopening, |
| 1:56.6 | and we had a tailored and measured approach, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis met with President |
| 2:01.1 | Trump at the White House to talk about the state's progress at containing the virus. |
| 2:06.8 | Everyone in the media was saying Florida was going to be like New York or Italy. |
| 2:10.9 | And that has not happened because... Well, on Sunday, the state reported a staggering 15,000 |
| 2:18.0 | positive coronavirus cases. Cases top 12,000 so far on Monday. That is thousands more than |
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