ORLANDO, Fla. — COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising to levels last experienced during Florida’s winter surge as overlapping waves of omicron subvariants sweep through the state.
As of Friday, more than 3,200 patients were in Florida hospitals for COVID-19, a big jump from about 1,000 COVID patients in early April, but nowhere near the more than 17,000 people hospitalized during the delta wave in August 2021.
Jason Salemi, a University of South Florida epidemiologist, notes that in the most recent seven-day period, Florida has the third-highest per capita rate of new adult hospital admissions with “confirmed COVID-19″, behind only Montana and Hawaii, based on data released Thursday on HealthData.gov.
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