Hospitalization rates among children are higher than they’ve ever been in the state. In Arkansas, the Covid-19 hospitalization rate is more than double the national rate and the fifth highest in the country. “Obviously whatever we are feeling pales in comparison to what patients are feeling and their families, but it’s overwhelming to the staff to be caring for patients with the same disease we thought we just, we might be seeing the end of.” “We thought we turned the corner a bit on this, and here we are going back up,” he said.
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That’s more than triple the national rate.Įvery state with a higher than average hospitalization rate has a lower than average vaccination rate, including Florida, according to a CNN analysis of data from the CDC and HHS.Īnd it’s taking a toll on a health care system that has been operating at full strength for a year and a half, Pyke says. More than 65 people are hospitalized with Covid-19 for every 100,000 people in Florida, about one out of every 1,500 state residents. And that’s the very essence of it.”įlorida has the highest hospitalization rate in the country, according to the latest data from HHS. “But the vaccine is like a dam, and the vaccine can do so much more in preventing the flooding that we’re seeing right now. “We have this deluge of flooding going on, and what we’re doing in terms of trying with the medicines that we’re trying over the months is basically scooping out cups of water from this flood,” he said. While Pyke said he understands this hesitancy to a degree, the best way to look at it is as though the vaccine is a dam.
And the concern is that the community still has that hesitancy.” “It doesn’t necessarily prevent getting the virus, but it certainly does prevent severe illness requiring hospitalization and death. “Now, my biggest concern is that we have a very, very good tool, right, we have the vaccine, and the vaccine has been proven now to be remarkably efficacious as it pertains to preventing severe illness and death,” he said. As a critical care and internal medicine doctor, he cared for patients himself during the early stages of the pandemic, from March to October of last year. O’Neal Pyke, chief medical officer of Jackson North Medical Center, Jackson Health System in Florida, told CNN. In a few states - including Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Louisiana - the number of children hospitalized with Covid-19 more than doubled over the past week, federal data shows.īut with every 12 and older eligible to be vaccinated against Covid-19, experts have different concerns about this new wave of hospitalizations.Įarly in the pandemic, there weren’t enough tools to care for patients and doctors didn’t know if what they were doing for their patients was the right thing, Dr. In fact, the hospitalization rate among adults age 30 to 39 is the highest it’s ever been, CDC data shows.Ĭhildren also account for a larger share of hospitalizations now than they did in January, as hospitalization rates among those under the age of 18 hover right around the record high. But hospitalization rates among younger adults are about as high as they were in January. The recent hospitalization rate among seniors age 70 and older is about a quarter of what it was in January, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Seniors still have the highest per capita rate of hospitalizations, but the gap is smaller than it’s been. We have a few, but it’s not anywhere close to the younger population,” Drinkwitz said. Now, he said, there are fewer elderly patients. “We didn’t have that younger population it was more of the elderly population.” “In November, when we had our first big spike, we didn’t,” Drinkwitz said. The hospital recently had three patients between 30 and 40, multiple patients in their 40s and some in their 50s and 60s on ventilators, he said. “As far as the very distinct differences - the age of patients for us,” Drinkwitz told CNN. Things are very different from last time, he says.
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