{"id":4580,"date":"2023-09-12T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:58:20","slug":"why-florida-is-seeing-the-highest-proportion-of-counties-with-moderate-covid-hospitalization-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/12\/why-florida-is-seeing-the-highest-proportion-of-counties-with-moderate-covid-hospitalization-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Florida is seeing the highest proportion of counties with &#8216;moderate&#8217; COVID hospitalization rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/florida-highest-number-us-counties-moderate-covid-hospitalization\/story?id=103098937\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/covid-hospitalizations-increase-7th-consecutive-week-new-boosters\/story?id=102959508\">COVID-19 hospitalizations rise across the country<\/a>, Florida is seeing higher admissions levels than other states. As of Monday, 43 of Florida&#8217;s 67 counties reported moderate levels of weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 &#8212; a higher proportion than any other state in the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county\">data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows<\/a>. Moderate levels indicate between 10 and 19.9 new hospital admissions per 100,000, and the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/covid-by-county.html\">recommends<\/a> wearing a mask if you are high-risk or self-testing before coming into contact with a high-risk patient.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" HY oomHdPF EO\"> HY oomHdPF EO<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News As COVID-19 hospitalizations rise across the country, Florida is seeing higher admissions levels than other states. As of Monday, 43 of Florida&#8217;s 67 counties reported moderate levels of weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 &#8212; a higher proportion than any other state in the U.S., data from the Centers for Disease Control and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}