While thousands of Floridians continue to be infected by coronavirus, state health officials already are treating COVID-19 as an endemic disease — with health experts clinging to hope that it has become more predictable, manageable and less deadly.
Memorial Healthcare System had only one patient die from COVID for the week ending Dec. 27, a drastic decline from January when nearly 43 people in the hospital system surrendered their lives to the disease in a single week.
“Everybody’s keeping their fingers crossed that this is really just in the background now,” said Dr. Marc Napp, chief medical officer of Memorial Healthcare System. “We just have to wait and see, but certainly COVID is not anywhere near where it was a year ago or even during Delta, which was about a year-and-a-half ago.”
