Coronavirus live updates: More than 2,500 new cases in Florida since reopening Monday

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There have been more than 2,500 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Florida since Monday, when the state began to reopen, according to a count by ABC News. There were also 316 new deaths in that same time frame.

Florida now has reported 40,001 confirmed cases, with deaths reaching 1,715, the state's health department said.

Gov. Ron DeSantis allowed most counties in the state to reopen starting Monday, but three -- Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach -- had to wait.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-live-updates-more-than-2500-new-cases-in-florida-since-reopening-monday/ar-BB13PGAZ?li=BBnb7Kz

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Massachusetts has had at least 1,500 a day, death toll closing in on 5,000.

[mucifer]

2. We get 2000 to 3000 new cases a day in Illinois. But, they are doing 15,000 to 20,000 tests a day

I am curious how many tests were done per day in Florida.

[progree]

3. Florida per worldometers.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

Unfortunately it doesn't have any tables or graphs of tests.

In Minnesota, with a Democratic governor (Tim Walz), we are having big increases in daily new cases, but that's largely a result of a big ramp-up in testing. (But some of it is real too, I think, with all are meat-processing plants creating hot-spots, and we have huge huge case numbers in long-term care facilities.)

If per-chance anyone is interested in Minnesota all the graphs and tables imaginable for Minnesota are at: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html

[LeftInTX]

5. Florida's positive rate is 7.6% overall, for the week ending May 2 it was 5.8%

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429

[progree]

7. Thanks! (well, damn, why doesn't Minnesota have that stat - percent of tests that are positive) n/t

[LeftInTX]

8. They do

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

You have to calculate the percentage, but it's not hard to do!

[progree]

10. Sorry, I'm not seeing anything near the bottom of the page (or am I on the wrong page?)

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html

But I do see, near the top of the page, the testing data table, followed by the positive case data table. Both on a daily basis. Looks like it would be an Excel spreadsheet job to put those two together and calculate the percentage to see trends in that (percent testing positive).

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

You have to calculate the percentage, but it's not hard to do!

[LeftInTX]

11. There are also links at the bottom of the page. Are you on a phone? I'm on a desktop

[progree]

12. I'm on a desktop. Which link do I click?

[LeftInTX]

14. Scroll down to "On this page"

It will be after the "Updated May 9, 2020" paragraph

"Testing" is first link

[progree]

15. Got it ... that's just the testing table. And it agrees with your #11

but the 3 columns are completed tests from MDH (daily), completed tests from external labs (daily), and total completed tests (cumulative).

and then the following table is the Positive cases table.

So yeah, I can combine the two tables in a spreadsheet and calculate percentages.

It wouldn't make sense to just do a day here and a day there, since there is so much bouncing around. One pretty much has to do them all to see trends.

Thanks

[LeftInTX]

13. The first table was total tests. This table is positive tests

[progree]

16. Nice screen shots, by the way. Thanks for taking the time 😂😂😂 n/t

[LeftInTX]

6. Texas' rate is trending up...Not good

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

Abbott was bragging how the rate was coming down etc, now it's going up. With more testing the rate is supposed to down, even if the number of cases goes up. Our 7 day rate is 6.75% (May 9) on May 6, it was 5.83%

[Initech]

4. I'm shocked, shocked!!! Well not that shocked.

[gristy]

9. per the ny times, new cases in FL are bouncing around but not really increasing in the past week

date new cases
5/2 735
5/3 615
5/4 819
5/5 542
5/6 563
5/7 826
5/8 371

But who knows. Maybe they aren't testing as much. Maybe they are testing more. Maybe some counties have stopped reporting...