Hundreds of health professionals in all five Baptist hospitals no longer have wear masks in non-clinical areas, like meeting rooms and administrative areas.
The state is now averaging nearly 3,300 cases a day. The graph below shows the number of cases reported to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention over the last 30 days. News4JAX spoke with experts at UF Health on Monday about the recent uptick in local cases and how the BA.2 variant compares to omicron and delta.
We asked Chad Neilsen, UF Health’s director of infection prevention, about the differences between the three variants.“What we know about BA.2 is it’s very similar to the omicron, it’s original variant, that it’s less severe for most individuals versus delta or even the very first wave of COVID that we saw,” Neilsen said. “Right now, the delta variant — that was really our most catastrophic and most severe variant of COVID that we’ve seen throughout this pandemic, and omicron in this BA.
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