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Jayaweera said there has been an increase in hospitalizations in his area, but many cases are not as severe as in previous years. Many patients are not admitted for COVID but only find out they have it through testing.
"There are people who are testing positive inside the hospital, but they were not there for COVID," he said. "They were here for an operation or something else, and they tested positive."
As COVID-19 hospitalizations rise across the country, Florida is seeing higher admissions levels than other states.
As of Monday, 43 of Florida's 67 counties reported moderate levels of weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 -- a higher proportion than any other state in the U.S., data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Moderate levels indicate between 10 and 19.9 new hospital admissions per 100,000, and the CDC recommends wearing a mask if you are high-risk or self-testing before coming into contact with a high-risk patient.
MORE: What are the latest COVID protocols amid rising cases and hospitalizations?
Statewide, weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased since the beginning of July from 951 the week ending July 1 to 2,406 the week ending Aug. 26, the latest date for which CDC data is available.
Although this is not a record-high in hospitalizations, it is the largest figure seen since the week ending Jan. 28.
"What is happening in Florida is that the number of cases [is] slowly creeping up," Dr. Dushyanth Jayaweera, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases expert with the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine, told ABC News. "It's kind of anticipated. We were expecting [them] to go up in the winter, but now, this has come up even before that."
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