I work in Jacksonville Hospitals. I find it “strange” that as soon as the RNC announced Florida as the primary and Texas as the backup locations both had a huge spike in numbers all of a sudden! However, Georgia has been earlier in easing restrictions and yet no spike....

Going back to working in Jacksonville hospitals, not seeing what the news is reporting. We do have some patients but nothing is overrun. There are far more patients percentage wise on observation floors than in the ICU about 6/1. Furthermore, it’s quite comical that as soon as the staff gets away from the patient floors and down into the “bowels” of the hospital masks come off.

I believe one of the problems with the numbers is the independent testing done by some of the “urgent care” clinics. One in particular is owned by a very “shady” doctor and has is own laboratory testing equipment. The question arises, how often does he recalibrate his machine? Does he do it daily, or maybe not at all. Additionally hospital protocol for a positive test is “3 additional tests in 72 hours” for confirmation. It is a know fact that there are many false positives. Most people who get “drive up” tested just do it once. Certainly not “3 in 72”.