A report by the Florida Hospital Association estimates 70 percent of Florida hospitals are facing a critical staffing shortage, and the state will be short 60,000 nurses by 2035
A health care worker prepares to administer a Covid-19 test in North Miami, Fla. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Covid infections begin creeping up again across the country, current and former health officials in Florida are warning that the state remains woefully underprepared to handle the next wave of the pandemic.
A report by the association estimates 70 percent of Florida hospitals are facing a critical staffing shortage, and the state will be short 60,000 nurses by 2035. Moskowitz said Florida’s pre-Covid-19 pandemic guidance was scrapped after the first infections were reported in Tampa more than two years ago because the virus was new and health officials across the globe were rushing to understand how to treat it.
“The supply chain issues we had in the beginning, have we done anything about them? The answer is nothing,” Moskowitz said.
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