Florida breaks record for new daily Covid cases for third time this week
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Via: perrie-halpern • 3 years ago • 12 commentsBy: Nicole Acevedo and Jay Varela
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A record-breaking 23,903 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Florida on Friday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This marks the third time this week that Florida has surpassed its record of new daily Covid-19 cases. The state first reported its highest one-day total on July 31 with 21,683 new cases. Then, on Thursday, at least 22,783 new daily cases were reported, CDC data shows.
"This is real. And it didn't have to be this bad," Nikki Fried, Florida's commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, tweeted Saturday. "We need everyone to do their part — #GetVaccinatedNow & #MaskUp. If not for yourself, for your friends, family, and neighbors. For our kids. For our doctors & nurses. For Florida."
Covid-19 hospitalizations in the state have also increased at record-breaking levels for six consecutive days, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
On Saturday, Florida recorded 13,747 hospitalizations related to Covid-19, with at least 2,753 patients in intensive care units statewide, accounting for 43 percent of the intensive care units beds available in the state.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 620,404 Americans, according to a rolling NBC News tally. At least 39,695 of those fatalities have been in Florida, in a per capita rate that puts the state squarely in the middle of the pack.
About 49.3 percent of Florida's population has been fully vaccinated, according to NBC's vaccination tracker. That puts Florida slightly behind other large states like California (53.3 percent), New York (57.5 percent) and Pennsylvania (52.8 percent) but ahead of Illinois (48.9 percent) and Texas (43.3 percent).
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In the last two days, we've lost 292 people to Covid.
13,747 are hospitalized with Covid 2500 in ICU and 135 children in the hospital with Covid.
Maybe you should have moved to Palm Springs. I'm glad I no longer own a condo in Florida.
My buddies in the Villages said that the actual # is 29,000 new cases and that many businesses, including Walmart, are closed.
The Villages is around 35 miles from me and our county, Marion which part of the Villages is in has a positivity rate 24%.
I haven't seen any businesses close in Ocala.
About 49.3 percent of Florida's population has been fully vaccinated, according to NBC's vaccination tracker. That puts Florida slightly behind other large ( blue) states like California (53.3 percent), New York (57.5 percent) and Pennsylvania (52.8 percent) but ahead of Illinois (48.9 percent) and Texas (43.3 percent).
I don't think facts matter in a witchhunt.
When the virus surges in the blue states and retreats in Florida in the fall (like it did last year) progressives will suddenly stop blaming governors again.
The fact is that the surge is nationwide and of those states, Florida leads the way in new cases, hospitalization, ICU and deaths.
DeSantis is going against all medical advice with his nonsensical EO on masks especially in for school kids. He is even going against the parents of school kids.
So less than half the population is vaccinated, which leaves the other half vulnerable to infection and its spread. And that's precisely what is happening. Herd immunity has not been reached and now there is a Covid flare up.
One of my middle school classmates who lives in Jacksonville is fighting Covid right now. So is her fiance, who has Covid pneumonia. He was in the hospital - I'm not sure if he's still there. She's home, but she's on oxygen. She survived a very aggressive form of breast cancer a few years ago, so she is still immunocompromised. She's had monoclonal antibody therapy, but it has not kept her condition from worsening.
That's so tragic, hope she and her fiance have a full recovery.
Desantis fiddles as Florida burns.