Florida adds 2,628 coronavirus cases, 131 deaths Thursday
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Florida’s total of coronavirus infections reached 709,144 Thursday, with 2,628 additional cases reported over the last 24 hours. The Florida Department of Health announced 131 additional coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 14,619.
On average, the state has announced about 94 deaths per day this week.
Hospitalizations: According to the latest numbers from the Agency for Health Care Administration, there are 2,085 people hospitalized in Florida due to COVID-19. In Tampa Bay, there are 419 in hospitals with a primary diagnosis of coronavirus.
Statewide, there were 213 new admissions reported Thursday. About 33 of them were in the Tampa Bay region.
Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/10/01/florida-adds-2628-coronavirus-cases-131-deaths-thursday/
The interesting thing is that Florida's official published positivity rate is about five percent, which is still pretty concerning. However, its calculations do not include positive retests, thus over emphasizing negative test and retest results. In contrast, John Hopkins University reported Florida’s positivity rate at 11.03 percent on Thursday. Before loosening social distancing guidelines, a region should stay at a positivity rate of five percent or less for at least two weeks, according to the World Health Organization.
So, what you have in Florida is the lowest number of tests taken per 1000 people in the entire nation, plus cooked numbers on positivity rate, which is all designed to make Florida, the third largest State, look better than it is even though it has the more daily deaths than California, which has twice FL's population.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview
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