Even some Jackson Memorial healthcare workers didn’t want a COVID-19 vaccine, so what’s wrong?

MIAMI, Florida – Call it COVID surge 2.0 and the reason by all accounts is squarely placed on people who are not vaccinated.

Local 10 News learned on Tuesday that even at Miami’s public hospital, Jackson Memorial, 42% of its staff were still unvaccinated.

We asked Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health Systems, why?

“Jackson employees are no different from everyone else on the street. Everyone listens to rumors and being in the healthcare industry they create more rumors, which is part of why the numbers are low, ”said Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health System.

It is now the common frustration of medical professionals and public health experts. Hospitals in South Florida have doubled, if not tripled, the number of COVID patients they have seen in the past month. One of the most telling indicators of the spread and severity of COVID in a community is the number of hospitals.

90% of hospital patients are unvaccinated, and in the intensive care unit 95% of people are unvaccinated, said Dr Lilian Abbo of Jackson Health System.

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Dr Robert Goldszer of Mount Sinai Medical Center said universally, patients who enter hospital with COVID-19 are not vaccinated. “We see 95 to 99% of unvaccinated patients. “

And doctors say these are different patients from last summer’s wave.

“It is the youngest who suffer the most, that is to say the part of the population which is under-vaccinated”, according to Dr. Aileen Marty, expert in infectious diseases of the CRF.

Add to that the more powerful Delta variant.

“A lot more virus, spreading quickly, shorter incubation, and yes, when you have that combination with the wrong person, it adds up,” Abbo said.

The numbers prompted 2 hospitals to increase threat levels. They’ve cut back on visits and reimplemented tough COVID protections while everyone tries to figure out what they haven’t said yet that could reach unachievable so far.

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Diagnosis here? Too much misinformation and misinformation

Goldzer points to the polio vaccine. “The polio vaccine came out in 1954. There was no Internet. People were reading the newspaper, calling each other on the phone, writing letters to each other, and everyone was lining up for the vaccine and there was no more polio, ”he said.

Abbo has a message for those who love so many others.

“I think at this point, after a year and a half, it’s not just being selfish, you are affecting public health,” she said.

Migoya’s message? “Right now, ‘vaxing’ is equal to or greater than masking. “