Watch the freakin water…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/us/orlando-residents-reduce-water-liquid-oxygen-covid-patients/index.html
To reduce demand, the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) asked customers to immediately limit watering their lawns and landscapes, take short showers, repair leaking faucets and toilets, stop washing their vehicles and performing "non-critical activities" like pressure washing, the municipal utility said in a notice.
Ron DeSantis leans into mask-mandate fights as Covid cases soar in Florida
Ron DeSantis leans into mask-mandate fights as Covid cases soar in Florida
OUC said it is "difficult to determine" how long shortages of liquid oxygen will last, "because it is tied to the number of COVID-19 patients being treated in hospitals with oxygen." When those hospitalizations decline, the liquid oxygen supply will likely increase, according to the utility company.
"This is another impact of the virus continuing to surge in our community," the mayor said in his post. "And it's another result of what happens when residents do not get the vaccine and become critically ill, needing medical support and treatment."
Florida reported 150,118 cases in the past week, according to data from Florida's health department, just shy of the state's highest total for a seven-day period in the pandemic. The record was set the week before, when the state reported 151,415 new Covid-19 cases.