Dozens of doctors in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida gathered Monday morning before their shifts to air their frustrations with the rising number of COVID cases, mainly among those not vaccinated. Dozens of doctors gathered outside the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rupesh Dharia called this event “a public outreach from the community physicians to the community.”

Dr. Nelson Galvez was among those speaking out (watch above):

“It’s important for everybody to understand that this is a preventable condition that’s running into disaster in health care because it’s something that we have available for everybody, something that can be given, people can get, actually prevent these complications and they are not really going for it… We have the vaccine to prevent this from becoming a national emergency. Yet there are people in the world that want the vaccine don’t have it and here we are with this ability to have it and known wants to have it for reasons i don’t understand.”

He went on to tell NBC’s Kerry Sanders, “The problem is even though doctors and nurses, they all want to do the right thing and we want to be there for our patients. We’re humans and we’re getting exposed to this every day. We’re tired of having to deal with this stress. It’s mental stress. It’s the stress of day in and day out.”

Florida is seeing one of the worst surges in the country. USA Today reports:

Florida became the third state in the U.S. to reach 3 million cases of COVID-19, a total surpassed by only 15 countries in the world.

Cases in the state fell very slightly this week, with 150,740 compared to 151,764 last week, but deaths were on the rise. The state saw 1,486 deaths this week compared to 1,071 the week before. 

That’s an all-time death record for the state and almost 15% more than the previous record of 1,296 deaths back in January.