Dr. Timothy Regan from Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center said children as young as eight are saying goodbyes to their parents.
"We are not fearmongers, we are not trying to scare you but here is reality and this is what is sad; we are bringing eight- and ten-year-olds to the bedside of their parents to say their last goodbyes," he told a news conference Thursday addressed by healthcare leaders.and this is easily preventable," he said visibly moved,"so to Polk County, I encourage you to get vaccinated.
His plea comes as Polk County recorded nearly a thousand new infections on Wednesday, which is the most in a single day during the pandemic, according to county health department director Dr. Joy Jackson. A Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is administered at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. A doctor in Polk County has urged people to get vaccinated because children are having to see their parents die from the disease.While there has been a small increase in COVID jabs being administered in the county, only 54 percent of the eligible population has been vaccinated, Jackson said.
She also said parents should know that children can both get and spread COVID-19 and encouraged mask use among the young.
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