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Fifteen of those with COVID-19 were vaccinated. "My staff are worn out."Īt Oak Hill, 62 employees are out because they are COVID-19-positive.

"Beds are not a problem for us, it's the staff," Mr. I can tell you, I don't care whether you've been vaccinated or not, because dead is dead."Įven though bed spaces are filling up amid the surge, the biggest issue for this hospital is the effect the pandemic had on hospital staff. "There's only one protocol for treatment, if you have COVID we have that one protocol, we don't care about the variant, we don't test for it. "I will tell you that I don't care what variant it is," Mr. Only one of those patients is vaccinated against COVID-19. Fourteen patients under 65 years old are on ventilators. Smith told county commissioners that 25 patients in the ICU have COVID-19, and 17 are on ventilators, ranging in ages from 25-75. We are very close to our ICU being filled with COVID patients." "We've now had to dedicate five nursing units to COVID.

"We have 133 COVID-positive patients out of our 309 total patients in the hospital," Mr. Mickey Smith, the CEO of Brooksville, Fla.-based Oak Hill Hospital, addressed the COVID-19 surge his county is facing and the effect it's having on his staff, NBC-affiliate WFLAreported Aug.