'We are seeing people passing quicker than before': What hospitals look like in US Covid hot spots

The hospital's Covid-19 patient numbers have more than tripled, and staff are now treating more than 70 people, an 'exponential growth,' he said, that they were not expecting. To accommodate the climbing patient numbers, the hospital recently reopened two units that were previously shut down. The overwhelming majority of those coming in sick with Covid are unvaccinated, Segarra said. Many are young -- people in their 20s and 30s who are getting 'extremely, extremely sick' and some of whom are dying. Roughly 45% of people in Florida are fully vaccinated, according to state data. The low vaccination rates, along with a dangerous coronavirus variant that's now the dominant strain in the United States and the relaxed Covid-19 guidelines, are what Segarra said he thinks have led to the increase.