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Mr Bharath, who is a healthcare facility nurse in South Florida, says he captured the infection from a client when the Covid-19 screening procedure for admissions was less rigorous.
Two days later on, on 26 March, he was intubated.
As his symptoms got worse, Mr Bharath says he would wake up in a fever-sweat every 6 hours, feeling chills and lightheaded and unable to catch his breath.
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Sanjay Bharath, a 34- year-old nurse, was hospitalised over the infection.
Mr Bharath would stay on a ventilator for eight days.
As of 13 July, over 4,200 Floridians have actually died due to the infection and the state’s weekly average has actually increased to 73 people each day by local counts.
Florida saw the most significant day-to-day dive in health center admissions on 9 July, with more than 400 patients requiring treatment.
Critics say the number of deaths is most likely higher, as Florida does not like other states report deaths suspected as having actually been caused by Covid-19
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Florida only hit the 100,000 case mark on 22 June, according to information from Johns Hopkins University.
Now, there are more than 278,000 cases.
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Florida’s Disney World resort resumed with limited capability on 11 July.
” There’s a lot of misinformation all over the web about the seriousness of this outbreak,” says Dr Aileen Marty, a Florida International Univers