HOMESTEAD, Fla. The Intensive Care Unit at Homestead Hospital is at capacity with mostly patients who has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokeswoman for Baptist Health South Florida confirmed to ABC News reporter Victor Oquendo. Pipkin confirmed that the hospital is seeing much younger COVID-19 patients than earlier in the pandemic. On Tuesday, the number of admitted COVID-19 patients reported in Miami-Dade County reached 818. [Now] were seeing that we have to admit a lot more of them.Despite the surge, all South Florida hospitals have not yet reached capacity. According to state data, Miami-Dade has 23.9% of its hospital beds and 26.6% of its ICU beds available as of Tuesday afternoon.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Local 10 is welcoming Louis Aguirre back to South Florida's No. Aguirre, who began his career in Miami and worked at Local 10 from 1988 to 1992, will return to the station to anchor the 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts. Aguirre was later hired by the Fox News Channel for the network's Fox and Friends morning show. “We are thrilled to welcome Louis back to South Florida, and back to WPLG, the station where his career began,” said WPLG President Bert Medina. Aguirre will return to Local 10 in September as he replaces Victor Oquendo, who is leaving the station to become a correspondent with ABC News.