Florida Coronavirus Cases Jump 50% As Surge Continues

[appalachiablue]

Source: AP News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s coronavirus cases jumped 50% this week, the state Health Department reported Friday, continuing a six-week surge that has seen it responsible for 1 in 5 new infections nationally, becoming the outbreak’s epicenter.

The release came shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis barred school districts from requiring students to wear masks when classes resume next month.

More than 110,000 new coronavirus cases were reported statewide over the past week, up from 73,000 last week and 11 times the 10,000 reported the week of June 11, six weeks ago. Case numbers are now back to where they in January, just before vaccinations became widely available.

The Florida Hospital Association also said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year’s peak. More than 9,300 patients are hospitalized, up from 1,845 a month ago and nearing the record 10,179 set on July 23, 2020. On a per capita basis, Florida now has more people hospitalized than any other state...

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-0ed4928ff9dcf54d8422269a2ef174ce

[Rural_Progressive]

1. I know I'm going to regret asking this but.....

WHAT THE F*CK IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY?!?!?!?!?!

[ancianita]

5. It's at least 5 billionaires in Florida who want the Florida economy the way they want it,

Floridians' lives be damned.

It's Ike Permutter of dubious Marvel fame and running the VA for Trump;
it's Palmer Luckey, one of DeSantis' biggest donors, whose sister is engaged to Matt Gaetz;
it's also Matt Gaetz lol;
it's the Centners of Miami who still insist covid is a hoax and started the horrendous bullshit that merely being around other vaccinated people can cause reproductive problems in women.

DeSantis donors, these are only a few of the fuck-you-got-mine billionaires who want their bagmen to win and this is how they want them to do it. This and voter suppression, of course.

It's Trump himself, because these and 29 others are still donors for Trump. This has never been about caring about Americans. It's always and ever been only about the money.

[Skittles]

7. he serves the Trump Cult, not America

fucking traitor

[TomCADem]

15. 'Freedom Over Fauci-ism': Ron DeSantis Touts Handling Of COVID-19, Decries Lockdowns

In the Alternative Universe of Right Wing Media, DeSantis is running a victory lap for his handling of the pandemic as opposes any effort to mitigate the spread.

Meanwhile, in states like California, which have done a better job per capita, right wing media is spreading propaganda to encourage a recall.

[TheProle]

2. Under the national avg, unfortunately

The current seven-day average of new daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. is roughly 67,000, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. That’s up 53% compared with a week ago, as the country grapples with a surge in new infections driven largely by delta, first discovered in India and now the dominant variant in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/dr-scott-gottlieb-estimates-up-to-1-million-americans-infected-with-covid-daily-as-delta-spreads.html

[Lunabell]

3. Apparently, the economy is more important to desantis than human life.

I despise that trump ass kisser!

[progree]

4. Louisiana way beats Florida in new per capita cases, and is growing a lot faster too

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

The top 2 states in daily new cases per 100k population, 7 day moving average:

#1 Louisiana: 82, 14 day change: +244% ( a 3.44 fold increase )

#2 Florida: 66, 14 day change: +153% ( a 2.53 fold increase )

followed by:

#3 Arkansas, #4 Mississippi, #5 Alabama, #6 Missouri, #7 Nevada, #8 Oklahoma, #9 Alaska, #10 Texas, #11 Georgia, #12 Kansas, #13 S. Carolina, #14 Kentucky, #15 Tennessee,

(Just goes to show that where Covid strikes is pretty much random /sarc)

U.S. average: 22, 14 day change: +151% ( a 2.51 fold increase )

(scary thought: just 14 days ago, the Florida number was 26, so the U.S. average now (22) is only a little bit better than Florida was 14 days ago. Edited to add that I figured at the current U.S. growth rate, the U.S. lags Florida by just 17 days. These growth rates correspond to about a 10.5 day doubling time).

The 14 day changes are actually the average of the 7 days ending July 29 compared to the average of the 7 days ending July 15.

[Initech]

8. And what do all these states have in common?

Gee, I can't quite put my finger on it...

[progree]

9. I got it! They're all in the top 15 in new Covid infection rate ✔️

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "These growth rates correspond to about a 10.5 day doubling time"

It's interesting to see the consistency of that too.

Just a back of the envelope from data for July for PA (I record PA's & Philly's daily reports in a little file, and as a note, PA no longer reports on Saturdays) -

7/1/21 - +186 (a Thursday)
7/9/21 - +230 (used the Friday since no report on the 7/10 Saturday)
7/20/21 - +569 (a Tuesday)
7/30/21 - +1,110 (a Friday)

I know that any Monday data in geneal is skewed because many labs don't report over weekends and the figure reported out is a 3-day total to include Friday - Sunday, so it's not until about mid-week or later when the results stabilize.

PA was coming off a surge post-Easter, and Memorial Day didn't appear to be contributing any case increases, as the case rates were continuing to fall after that. We finally started bottoming out by late June, and then all hell started breaking loose after July 4th.

But there is definitely a trend here.

[IronLionZion]

6. He's banned cities from having mask mandates

Jacksonville and a few others wanted local mask mandates

[flying_wahini]

11. What Gov Abbott is doing in Texas, as of yesterday.

[IronLionZion]

12. Orlando and Miami told him to go F himself and declared state of emergency

Austin, Houston and other blue cities should do the same.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. But masks and vaccines infringe on their freedumb

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new COVID cases

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors to wear masks indoors.

The state has become the new national epicenter for the virus, accounting for around a fifth of all new cases in the U.S.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted mandatory mask mandates and vaccine requirements, and along with the state Legislature, has limited local officials’ ability to impose restrictions meant to stop the spread of COVID-19. DeSantis on Friday barred school districts from requiring students to wear masks when classes resume next month.

The latest numbers were recorded on Friday and released on Saturday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website. The figures show how quickly the number of cases is rising in the Sunshine State: only a day earlier, Florida reported 17,093 new daily cases. The previous peak in Florida had been 19,334 cases reported on Jan. 7, before the availability of vaccinations became widespread.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-breaks-record-with-more-than-21000-new-covid-cases/ar-AAMN70W