As Florida’s COVID-19 cases continue to reach record highs, one Miami family says they wished they’d been vaccinated after all three were hospitalized recently.
Yoiris Duran, a 56-year-old real estate agent, her 55-year-old asthmatic husband and 25-year-old son were all admitted to Homestead Hospital hospitalized recently with the virus.
They were so sick, she feared they might die, she said in a video supplied to the Associated Press by Baptist Health South Florida.
Duran is now urging her friends to get vaccinated.
COVID-19 cases in the Sunshine State account for more than 20% of the nation’s new cases and hospitalizations.
The Florida Hospital Association says COVID-19 hospitalizations have doubled in the last two weeks. Association president Mary Mayhew is calling the vaccine a lifesaver, saying the vast majority of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.
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