For the most part, those who are sick are not severe and are expected to recover, health officials said.

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Let start with the numbers: On Wednesday there were 24 children with COVID-19 at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and four in the ICU.

A lot of the patients that we were seeing or being admitted for other reasons,” Pattishall said.

“I do everything in my power that I can to make sure my children stay safe,” Mooney said.

Mooney said she’s had COVID-19 before and quarantined from her children.

Mooney is not vaccinated and when she and other loved ones around her children get sick, she said they get tested to make sure they don’t pass it on to the children.

UF Health said its numbers have been going up all week as well.

But Chad Neilsen, an infectious disease expert at UF Health, said the majority of its COVID-19 patients admitted right now are not being treated for severe illness.