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After an exhausting July, COVID admissions slow at Miami-Dade's hard-hit hospitals

from Miami Herald

After an exhausting July, COVID admissions slow at Miami-Dade's hard-hit hospitals Miami Herald Patient admissions to hospitals for COVID-19 have been ticking down in Florida and Miami-Dade County over the past week, leading doctors and hospital administrators to offer cautious optimism that the state and region may have turned a corner on the pandemic even as the statewide death toll continues to rise. Florida's record 257 deaths reported on Friday are part of what public health experts call a lagging indicator of COVID-19, reflecting the worst outcomes among the sickest patients to be hospitalized as the disease surged back in June, said Michael Lauzardo, a pulmonary disease specialist with the University of Florida Health System in Gainesville. READ MORE

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