I've been working at a Miami children's hospital for 10 years and we are now going back to doubling rooms because there is no space for the patients.

Admission numbers are astronomical. We are now doubling rooms which was eliminated prior to covid, and this would have been considered unheard of after covid.

Every sort of disease and ailment is on the rise. Symptomatic covid is barely a blip, as it does nothing to children other than mild cold/flu symptoms.

Staffing is always short and new hires are nurses straight out of nursing school with no desire to work this hard and with a serious culture shock.

We are stretched super thin and holes are being filled by inexperienced staff when they are even available.

Upper respiratory infections are common now along with reoccurring chronic conditions. Saw two teenage patients recently with vasculitis.

None of this is normal. I have never seen these kinds of admissions like this especially during early fall. Based on the trends I am seeing I think what you have been writing is right and things will get a lot worse all because of the vaccine.