3,255 new Florida coronavirus cases reported Thursday; 147 new deaths

[TomCADem]

Source: Fox 13 News

TAMPA, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health says the number of known cases of COVID-19 in the state rose by 3,255 Thursday. According to the state's daily update, the total number of cases in Florida is now 674,456.

The number of Florida resident deaths has reached 13,086, an increase of 147 since Wednesday's update. In addition, a total of 161 non-Floridians have died in the state.

Locally, Polk County reported six new deaths, Hillsborough reported five, Citrus and Sarasota each reported four, Hernando and Sumter each reported two, while Pinellas and Highlands each reported one.

Of the 674,456 cases, 666,507 are Florida residents while 7,949 are non-Florida residents currently in the state.

Read more: https://www.fox13news.com/news/3255-new-florida-coronavirus-cases-reported-thursday-147-new-deaths

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147 is a lot and even more than California despite the fact that California is much larger than FL.

[forgotmylogin]

1. Goodness! Soon Mar-a-Lago may be uninhabitable! n/t

[progree]

2. NY Times has them #23 highest state in new cases per capita, 7 day moving average (Florida)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Scroll down to the "Cases and deaths by state and county" table.
Sort it by the "per 100,000" column that follows the "cases in last 7 days" column

Florida is the 23rd highest state on this list (IOW a bit above the median)

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As for the trend:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/florida-coronavirus-cases.html

Daily new cases, 7 day moving average (not per capita, this is the raw count)
7/17: 11,870 The peak -- when converted to per capita, Florida was about the worst of all states
9/16: 2,722 (back to the June 19 level, which was hardly paradaisical)
Down 77% from the peak

So they've come a long way down, but are still at a way too high level: 89 per 100,000 population in the past 7 days, which comes to 13 per 100,000 population per day (from the first link above)

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Positivity: 12.5% of tests are positive, much higher than the U.S. overall ( 5.4% ) both 7 day moving averages
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida

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Florida is #3 in deaths per 100,000 7 day moving average (from the link at the top of this page with "Deaths" instead of "Cases" selected, at 3.8/7 = 0.54 per 100,000 (the median state is about 1.3/7 = 0.19 per 100,000). An echo from their ultra-high previous case counts .

Deaths are 118 (7 day moving average), down 36% from the August 5 peak

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Didn't they just open bars statewide a week ago? I do see a slight upturn in their new cases (7 day moving average) after having flattened out https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/florida-coronavirus-cases.html

[AKing]

3. Republican Florida Positivity 12.5% vs Democratic Illinois 3.8%

[llmart]

4. This is just awful.

Can you imagine over 13,000 people died from Covid in just 1 state?

DeSantis needs to be gone. He was so busy sucking up to Trump that he didn't care if this many people died.

[Initech]

5. Shit, no wonder he's earned the nickname "Ron Death Sentence".