Health & Fitness

South Florida Hospitals Feeling Stress From Omicron Variant

The numbers were going down at Jackson North Medical Center early December, but this holiday break it's a new picture.

December 28, 2021

A surge in the Omicron variant has caused an uptick in hospitalizations, but it’s not quite a repeat of the Delta variant, at least not so far.

Find out what's happening in Miamifor free with the latest updates from Patch.

“We were in a very good situation several weeks ago, below 50 across the entire system regarding the number of active in-patient COVID-19 patients,” Dr. O’neil Pyke, Jackson North Medical Center Chief Medical Officer said.

The numbers were going down at Jackson North Medical Center early December, but this holiday break it’s a new picture.

Find out what's happening in Miamifor free with the latest updates from Patch.



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