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MONDAY MORNING: Number Of COVID Patients In PBC Hospitals Near Record High
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — Police in Delray Beach and Boca Raton still seem to be doing nothing about scenes like the one you see above in Boca Raton, and below in photos and video from Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. The Palm Beach County “COVID Education and Compliance Team” also appears to be M.I.A. As hoards of unmasked roam from restaurant to restaurant and bar to bar, the number of people now hospitalized for COVID-19 in Palm Beach County is at a near high of 375 Monday morning. That is an addition of nearly 100 over just the past week.
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Photos and videos provided to BocaNewsNow.com over the holiday weekend show crowds in Delray Beach and in Boca Raton roaming freely without masks. Multiple witnesses say law enforcement continues to do nothing about the unmasked, unsocially distanced even while patrolling on foot.
In Broward County, 598 are hospitalized with COVID-19. In Miami-Dade, 1,036 are hospitalized with COVID-19. The data is provided by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
As of 5:30 a.m. Monday, Bethesda West reports 8 ICU beds in use with just 2 available; West Boca Medical Center reports 13 ICU beds in use with 3 available; Delray Medical Center reports 39 ICU beds in use with 11 available; Boca Raton Regional Hospital report 30 ICU beds in use with 11 available; Wellington reports 23 ICU beds in use with 5 available.
In all of Palm Beach County, 2,860 beds are in use — COVID and general — with 1,105 available.
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