Stressed Over Recent COVID Surge, South Florida Nurses Urge Everyone To Get Vaccinated

By Peter D'Oench, CBS Miami

July 22, 2021

Nurses in Miami-Dade and Broward are speaking out about their stress amid the recent surge in Coronavirus cases and the need for more people to get vaccinated.

CBS4’s Peter D’Oench obtained new video from inside the COVID intensive care unit at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and spoke with COVID ICU nurses there where they suit up in Personal Protective Equipment for their 12-hour shifts.

COVID ICU Nurse Ali Adams said, “It’s been pretty difficult. My unit converted to a COVID ICU last January so it has been a year and a half. We thought all the cases and the numbers were going down. Most patients are young and most patients who get to the ICU unit are not vaccinated.”

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