Florida confirms nearly 9,000 coronavirus cases in a single day, a new record

[denem]

Source: Miami Herald

A record week of surging coronavirus numbers was only heightened on Friday, as state health officials confirmed 8,942 cases, nearly doubling the previous record of cases reported in a single day, two days earlier.

Florida’s Department of Health on Friday morning confirmed the cases, bringing the state total to 122,960. The state also announced at least 137 new deaths, bringing the total of COVID-19 deaths north of 3,400.

Over the last seven days, Florida has reported 29,163 new cases. That’s nearly a quarter of all the confirmed cases in the state so far.

The alarming case total came on a day of record testing, but the percentage of tests coming back positive remains elevated beyond the 10% threshold recommended by public health experts. On Friday, 71,433 people were tested and about 14.74% of those tests came back positive

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243817017.html

[louis-t]

1. USA!USA!USA!

[Doodley]

2. 15% positive out of 71k. That is a high infection rate. Suggests a huge number of undiagnosed cases.

[OrlandoDem2]

6. I've read we want it to be less than 5% positive.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Here in Philly we have been aiming for it

and had pretty much hit that and below until the past few days where I think they said it ticked up above 5% - currently attributed to teens 16 - 19.

[BigmanPigman]

16. How did they pin point the age so specifically?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. They have a whole survey form process with the testing and do demographics graphs

https://www.phila.gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/testing-and-data/
(then click on the "demographics" tab)

That site also offers the data sets in various formats that people can comb through... like...

(sorry I had to... makes me want to watch that movie again )

[ProfessorGAC]

23. It Sure Is

Numbers I saw for AZ (here at DU) were about as bad.
Illinois saw an uptick from 2.1% to 2.8% in around 10 days.
Reminders about masks were kicked up.
And that was with the number still under 3.
DeSantis hasn't mandated masks yet at 5x that number. Dumb!

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. Winning!

[RainCaster]

26. Beat me to it! That was my first thought, too.

[dlk]

4. Let's all head to the beach without masks or social distancing...

Seriously, what did they expect would happen?

[llmart]

8. Not just the beaches...

They just had to hit the bars! Hey, did you really expect people to do without their bar fix? What do you think we are already? Americans don't "do" sacrifice.

My son who lives in Florida posted something on his Facebook page that said, "All you had to do was wear a mask."

[dlk]

9. Even with a mask, a person is not completely protected

A mask only slows things down.

[Initech]

5. I have a feeling that we're going to go back on lockdown.

Of course Chump won't allow it, because, money.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Yes!

Maybe states could compete with each other as to how many cases they can have. Treat it like a horse race. Makes me sad I live in a state with only 2 million people.

[denem]

11. Even smaller states could have had a shot

at a few days of glory if they had put in a winning bid for the RNC convention. Try harder next time (if there is a next time)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. Or, a smaller state could try to get the

most deaths per hundred thousand or whatever measure we'd like to use.

Come on people, where's your competitive spirit?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. All of Canada (37,737,000) has 344 daily new cases yesterday, on a 7 day moving average. . . . . nt

[denem]

12. Would you consider a late 11th hour bid for the RNC convention?

... then keep them there for a few months.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. No, but Bolsonaro has volunteered Brazil (not, but I could see it happening). . . nt

[ScratchCat]

13. There is more to the story..

Over 3,000 of the cases were in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/Palm Beach. 3000!!!

Nearly 1,800 were in Tampa/St. Pete

Nearly 1,500 were in Naples/Ft. Myers

What do those places have in common? Three things - Beaches, elderly populations and high population densities.

Another 1,000 were in the Orlando area. 500 in Jax.

[OrlandoDem2]

20. Beaches in and of themselves are not a problem.

It’s when people pack too closely together. I avoid the public beaches, however, for that reason. Unfortunately, people on the aggregate are too dumb to figure that out.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Lockdowns are for Losers. Enjoy the death ride Repugs. You are incapable of caring about anyone.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Yay Florida! Hot weather will make the virus go away!

Fake 'em and bake 'em!

[progressoid]

21. MAGA!

[IronLionZion]

22. Hot sun will kill it off

as we have seen in Florida, Arizona, Texas, Brazil, and other hot places.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. It's Not Hot In Florida!

Oh wait, I've been there. It's hot there!
Guess that hot weather thing was a bad guess, huh?

[Quixote1818]

24. Holy shit! nt

[appalachiablue]

27. This is drastic, I feel for all the people there and elsewhere.

[Stuart G]

28. Very Sad...