Central Florida Coronavirus hospitalizations rising; Florida reaches 100,000 positive Covid-19 cases

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 06/22/2020 | By Naseem S. Miller and Stephen Hudak

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Hospitalizations from COVID-19 are spiking in Central Florida as the number of positive cases have reached record highs in recent days, less than a month after the state entered its second phase of reopening.

As of Monday, 115 patients with COVID-19 were being treated at Orange County hospitals, according to information shared by Orange County health department officials.

That’s 51 more cases than the week before and 85 more than the week of May 17.

Health systems told the county “their numbers were higher than ever before,” said Dr. Raul Pino, health officer at the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, in an email on Monday.

Seminole County is also seeing more hospitalized coronavirus patients. There are currently 46 patients with COVID-19 in the county’s hospitals.

“Three weeks ago we had an average of 3-4 per day,” said Alan Harris, chief administrator of Seminole County Office of Emergency Management in an email. “This is an increase for certain.”

Harris said three COVID-19 patients are currently in the ICU; in Orange, there are 20 patients in the ICU, a number that has stayed relatively flat over the past month.

In a shift from the beginning of the pandemic, when most of the hospitalized patients were in their 70s and 80s, patients now are in their 40s and 50s, Pino said. Florida Medical Association: ‘Florida’s doctors want you to wear a mask'

As Florida on Monday passed 100,000 positive coronavirus cases, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations are important because they indicate the spread and severity of disease and can signal whether local hospitals are at risk of getting overwhelmed.

Local hospitals say that they still have enough capacity, and they’ve learned how to better manage COVID-19 patients.

[steve86]

Prayers and best wishes for all of you. Can you tell me what, if any, supplements you regularly use (that didn’t work)? If it were me, at this point I would try to have someone bring me vitamin D3, zinc, quecertin, NAC, monolaurin, turmeric with piperine, and olive leaf extract and take the highest doses you can tolerate. Also ivermectin (veterinary supplies).

[Paradox]

The only supplement I take is fish oil. A multivitamin when I am dieting to lose weight. I am no supplementing with zinc gluconate.

Plus I have some Ivermectin on hand, not sure what I am going to do with it....

[steve86]

If the ivermectin is the horse paste type, you can take 1/10 of the horse dose. I wouldn’t hesitate if your symptoms are like “bad flu”. I have previously taken ivermectin as a human Rx. Keep us informed how all of you are doing.