Over the last week, 898 patients at Miami’s public hospitals tested positive for the novel coronavirus, but more than half of them — 471 — were admitted for other reasons, largely to emergency rooms, without typical COVID-19 symptoms.
Public health experts say it’s yet another indicator of increasingly widespread transmission of the virus in Miami-Dade County, as the virus ramps up across the country. Vicky Perez, a nurse and the director of critical care at Jackson North Medical Center, said she’s seen it in growing numbers: Patients who show up for anything from a car accident to abdominal pain are later testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
“They’re in the community. They’re working. They’re going to restaurants, and they don’t know they have it,” Perez said. “That’s why it’s so important to wear a mask, stay six feet apart, and don’t go out unless we have to.”
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In Miami, a sign of widespread transmission: More non-COVID patients have the virus
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