In hospitals in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana, the situation is aggravated due to oxygen shortages, while cases and hospitalizations due to covid-19 increase.
State health officials and experts fear that the reserve supply will begin to be used or that the hospitals will run out of the supply.
The medical director of the Jupiter Medical Center's ICU says that due to the delta variant, people in their 30s and 50s are in need of oxygen.