MIAMI – Florida is firmly in the grip of another wave of COVID-19 as cases across the state continue to rise.
The state has reported more than 100,000 new cases over the past week, up nearly double from the week before.
The majority of those cases come from South Florida.
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On Saturday, the state reported 21,683 new cases, the highest one-day total since the pandemic began.
The state’s positivity rate has also surged to 18.1 percent, and cases are rising among children.
The Florida Hospital Association reported more than 8,800 COVID-19 hospitalizations last week, and cases are also rising at children’s hospitals.
Long lines were seen at testing sites Saturday at Tamiami Park and Haulover Park in Miami-Dade County.
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PoliteCanadian2 on August 1st, 2021 at 04:20 UTC »
Perspective time!
Canada’s population: 37.5 mil
Florida’s population: 21.6 mil
Canada’s latest new case count: 531 so that’s 14.2 per million
Florida’s latest new case count: 21,683 so that’s 1004 per million
Let that sink in. Florida’s new case rate is 71 TIMES Canada’s rate.
darmabum on August 1st, 2021 at 03:31 UTC »
To give some sense of scale, with almost the same population as Taiwan, Florida had more cases in one day than Taiwan had during the entire pandemic.
GlobalTravelR on July 31st, 2021 at 22:35 UTC »
But hey, DeSantis says Florida is open for business!
Hospital and funeral business.