
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams meets with healthcare workers while touring a COVID-19 testing site at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium on Thursday. It’s not hospital beds that present a problem as coronavirus surges. South Florida hospitals need more nurses to treat patients in those beds. After four months of battling COVID-19, hospital staffs are burned out or at home with the virus. Replenishing nurses has become a major challenge, leading hospitals to push back on the state’s efforts to build field hospitals that would compete for staff. (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel)