Group of South Florida Doctors Hold Walkout to Protest Unvaccinated COVID Patients

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A group of about 75 South Florida doctors held a walkout Monday to protest the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients flooding their hospital in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. MSNBC’s Morning Joe reports.

Frustrated doctors want people to “ignore the nonsense and nonsense you hear at public meetings and recognize the value of what a vaccine will do,” said Kerry Sanders, reporting on the ground in Florida. He added that 85 percent of the state’s intensive care beds are full.

The walkout comes as COVID continues to decimate the Gulf Coast, which has “relatively low vaccination rates and often lax safety measures,” The New York Times reports. Florida, in particular, now leads the country in the average daily number of cases and hospitalizations, according to the Times. During the week beginning August 14, for example, at least five South Florida police officers died after contracting the virus, writes CNN.

“It’s incredibly frustrating because we know vaccines are safe and effective,” said Dr JT Snarksi, one of the doctors protesting Monday. “And it’s the people who speak out against them that are really going against doctors, medicine and science.” She added: “This is not the message we want to get across to people. Vaccines are safe and we need to get our communities immunized.”

On Monday, the FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a milestone that officials say will inspire more confidence among those reluctant to get vaccinated.

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