Florida health officials report nearly 3,000 new cases of COVID-19

[TomCADem]

Source: Click Orlando

After Friday’s report from the Florida Department of Health, data shows that cases are indeed on the rise in Florida.

Cases have seen a gradual increase over the last four days. But it’s not only cases seeing an increase, deaths and hospitalizations are also trending upward.

The jump in cases come as President Donald Trump says he wants to try and hold a campaign rally in Florida on Saturday “if we have enough time to put it together.” Vice President Mike Pence will be in the Sunshine State Saturday campaigning for the president ahead of the election.

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The Florida Department of Health on Friday reported 118 people have recently died from COVID-19. So far, 15,372 deaths across the state have been related to the coronavirus, a number that includes 186 non-resident deaths in Florida.

Read more: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/10/09/florida-health-officials-report-just-over-2000-new-cases-of-covid-19/

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The race is to get Florida to vote based on DeSantis's reopening before the increased cases and deaths begin to overwhelm Florida.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-governor-ron-desantis-lifts-coronavirus-restaurant-restrictions-statewide/

Florida lifts all coronavirus restaurant restrictions despite persistent cases

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday lifted all restrictions on businesses statewide, pushing the state, which has long been a coronavirus hotspot, into its "phase three" of reopening. Florida has more than 695,000 COVID-19 cases and a 13.38% testing positivity rate, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The governor announced an executive order allowing all restaurants and bars to operate at 100% capacity. In addition to lifting health restrictions on businesses, DeSantis said he is banning cities and counties from fining people who do not social distance or wear face masks — essentially eliminating all local mask mandates.

"We are today moving into initially called phase three. What that will mean for the restaurants, there will not be limitations," said DeSantis. "As an act of executive grace, all fines and penalties that have been applied against individuals are suspended."

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The governor said he wants the state to fully reopen, including bars and restaurants at full capacity, with "limited social distancing protocols." The order does not prevent businesses from enforcing mask-wearing for customers.

[pfitz59]

1. My Cousin and Aunt live in FL. Both are 92.

I would be mightily pissed in they die from COVID.

[Iliyah]

2. Mask, stay inside . . . . much love.

There is a person in the WH who does not care.

Florida is spiking or never stopped. That illegal person in the WH, the super spreader wants to invade Florida again.

sad. sick. he does not care.

[dewsgirl]

3. Life long Fl. resident here, currently not home. My heart is broken

over what is happening there. I think it never stopped.🥺

[progree]

4. Yes, the New York Times is finally showing a rise...

in Florida's daily new cases, 7 day moving average


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

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And now ranking at #32 in that metric per capita, thanks to low test rates (31 states being worse)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

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And #4 in lowest test rates, daily tests per 1,000 people
#1 Oregon 0.9
#2 Hawaii 1.0
#3 Nevada 1.1
#4 Florida 1.1 (positivity: 10.3%, well above the overall U.S. 4.7%)
#5 Pennsylvania 1.2
#6 Arizona 1.2
#7 Idaho 1.2
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview

[TomCADem]

5. CNN: Florida will be 'like a house on fire' in weeks with loose coronavirus restrictions

DeSantis seems to be running his state simply as a prop for Trump by repeatedly trying to reopen to fabricate a temporary economic bump before his COVID cases and deaths start to hit. Remember early during the summer when DeSantis was blaming increasing cases on increased testing?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

(CNN)As health officials in Florida reported nearly 3,000 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, the state is bracing to become "like a house on fire," an infectious disease expert says.

"Florida is ripe for another large outbreak," said Mike Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

"What they've done is opened up everything as if nothing had ever happened there and you and I could be talking probably in eight to 10 weeks, and I will likely bet that Florida will be a house on fire," Osterholm told CNN's Jake Tapper.

Health officials in Florida reported 2,908 new cases of Covid-19 and 118 deaths on Friday, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. The agency has reported at least 2,200 new cases daily for four consecutive days.

[progree]

8. "Remember early during the summer when DeSantis was blaming increasing cases on increased testing?"

Yup, that's the way it works. (Here I'm talking about REPORTED cases, not ACTUAL cases, which don't change with the amount of testing, at least in the near term -- in the long run more testing results in fewer actual cases and less severe cases because there's more timely and accurate contract tracing, people isolate sooner, treatments are begun sooner, yada)

I watch Minnesota daily. When there's a day with a smaller number of (reported) cases than lately, it's almost always because the number of tests were low compared to previous days. Au similar when there a day with a larger number of cases than lately, its because the number of tests was higher than previous days.

Mike Osterholm is a "local", only about 10 miles from me, and very well respected from what I can discern.

[TomCADem]

9. Interestingly, Texas Actually Has More Deaths the Past Than Florida...

...and both Texas and Florida have more deaths than California even though California has a larger population AND has consistently had more cases than reported cases than either Florida and Texas, which supports your point that they simply are testing less even though their actual covid problem may be much larger.

[progree]

10. Well, deaths are a lagging indicator, and Florida at its peak cases had a much higher

per capita daily new case count than Texas and California at their peaks.

Florida was about the worst in peak per capita new case count in the U.S. at its peak with the possible exception of Arizona at its peak. So I'd have to dig into the numbers some more. But no doubt a lot of the difference in case counts is due to different rates of testing, no doubt.

At the nytimes, Florida is #6 per capita in daily new deaths, showing a decline from the peak and will likely continue downward for a couple of weeks until the upturn in cases really gets going, producing a rise in deaths a few weeks afterwards.



A rather irratic pattern in daily new deaths reporting (the thin vertical bars).

[bedazzled]

6. No infection data posted today at all

Hmmmm

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/10/10/coronavirus-florida-dept-health-daily-report/5952838002/

[bluestarone]

7. And NOBODY will stop this crazy bastard

What the fuck is wrong with the people in Florida? Is the Health Dept. supporting the Gov.?