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MIAMI – Florida continues to accumulate records for Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations – 19 , the last one this Friday with more of 27,000 confirmed cases in one day , forcing hospitals to rent corpse refrigeration trucks and funeral homes running out of capacity.
The state twice this week beat the record for cases in a single day since March of 2020, with 27, 584 reported today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Disease (CDC) and 26, 203 last Wednesday.
Similarly, deaths from coronavirus had an increase of on Thursday deaths , because they had not been added to the accounts of the last two weeks.
Daily hospitalizations have also remained above the 13, 000, Today with 16,163, according to Florida Hospital Association.
The availability of beds in intensive care units is currently 5%.
These figures are reflected in hospitals, such as one in Sarasota, on the west coast of the state, and others in southern and central Florida that have already rented refrigeration trucks for corpses .
There are also calls from local authorities in the city of Orlando and the Tampa Bay area to save water because oxygen to purify it is needed in intensive care units.
Additionally, in central Florida several funeral homes have reported that their morgues are also exceeding capacity.
Meanwhile Governor Ron DeSantis, for the sake of individual freedoms, prohibited school districts from requesting the use of masks, initiative that this Friday suffered a setback in the courts, which gave the reason to educational authorities who rebelled and are forcing the use of masks.
This week it also transpired that a doctor offering medical certificates to avoid the use of masks for $ 50 dollars, he was expelled of a hospital in the county of León.
The official figures on the p andemic coronavirus in Florida remain high, although the Republican government Ron DeSantis has refused to report daily to the public the incidence of the pandemic.
More legal suits against DeSantis are also expected , possibly one from the Palm Beach School District, in addition to others that have occurred during the pandemic, such as the Norwegian shipping company, which sued the state for prohibiting it from asking its cruise passengers to show vaccination certificates, a lawsuit that has already won in a first instance in court.