A group of 75 doctors have staged a mass walkout to protest the rise of unvaccinated Covid-19 patients.
The doctors in South Florida walked out of their hospital on Monday, August 23, to protest the surge in unvaccinated Covid-19 patients who they are having to treat, New York Post reports.
"We are exhausted. Our patience and resources are running low and we need your help," Dr. Rupesh Dharia from Palm Beach Internal Medicine told WFLA reports.
Watch a full news report about the protest below:The current outbreak in Florida is one of the worst in the US, and it is predominantly the result of the more infectious Delta variant.
One of the doctors who participated in the walkout, JT Snarkski, told MSNBC: "It's incredibly frustrating because we know the vaccines are safe and effective and it's people that go out and talk against them that really go against physicians and medicine and science. It's not the message we want to get across to people.
"Vaccines are safe and we need to get our communities vaccinated."
Fox News reports that the majority of hospitals in Florida are almost at capacity in their intensive care units because of Covid-19 cases.
Florida mom Lisa Brandon of Jacksonville lost both of her sons to the virus in a 24-hour period, and she is now encouraging others to get vaccinated.
WJAX-TV reports that she regrets not encouraging her sons Aaron Jaggi, 35, and Free Jaggi, 41, to get the jab prior to them contracting Covid-19 in late July.
"I wish I could have made them do it. And now it's too late," she said.
Free passed away from the virus on August 12 and his brother Aaron lost his life just 12 hours later.
"I think they would be alive today if they would have gotten their shot," Brandon said.
She is now hoping that speaking publically about her family's tragedy will stop others from making the same mistake.
"It's a parent's worst nightmare," she said of losing her sons. "The only reason I'm doing this is to put the word out to please get vaccinated."