Florida has just set a new record in the uphill battle against COVID-19.
Florida reported more than 10,000 new cases Thursday, its highest number of new cases daily since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It also reported about 169,100 cases, most of which do not represent those who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic, and 3,617 confirmed deaths from the virus.
While COVID-19 progress has slowed in states like New York, where most cases in the US are still focused, confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased in 35 US states, being some of the most populous states like Florida, Texas and California a key cause for concern.
However, unlike officials in California and Texas, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said the state will not delay its reopening plans. New cases increased 48% in Florida in the past week, 27% more in Texas and 19% more in California during the same period, according to a Washington Post count.
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Florida reported nearly 169,100 cases, most of which do not represent those who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic, and 3,617 confirmed coronavirus deaths.
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“We are not going back, closing things,” said DeSantis, a Republican, this week, according to Axios. “I don’t think that’s really what drives it, the people who go to a business are not what drives it. I think when you see the younger ones, I think a lot of that is more just social interactions. ”
“We are open, we know who we must protect; Most of the people in those younger demographics, while we want them to be aware of what’s going on, they just have much, much less risk than people in those older groups, “the governor added.
DeSantis instructed the bars, which are allowed to open at half their normal capacity, to stop selling alcohol as a concession to the increase in coronavirus cases, but the state has no restrictions on the number of people who can assemble in shops and gyms.
Congresswoman Donna Shalala, a Miami-based Democrat, told NPR that the state put politics above public health. “” At first we needed to hit his virus with a hammer, starve him to death. We didn’t do the right thing at first. , and now we are trying to catch up. “
So far, New York has had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the US (32,064), followed by New Jersey (15,107), Massachusetts (8,132), Illinois (6,951), Pennsylvania (6,951), Michigan (6,712) and California (6,171). Texas has reported 2,541 deaths from the virus.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which was first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 10,815,117 people worldwide and 2,732,639 in the United States as of Thursday. It had claimed at least 519,575 lives worldwide, 128,651 of which were in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University.
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It ended Thursday with better-than-expected unemployment figures, despite an increase in coronavirus cases in some of the country’s most populous states.
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