Thought it was gone? COVID is on the rise again in Florida
Thought it was gone? COVID is on the rise again in Florida
COVID is back and symptoms are exhaustion, cough and fever
A few days after returning from a European cruise, Maria Hernandez began to feel achy, congested and hotter than usual in the South Florida heat.
She took a COVID rapid test at home, and the Miramar resident immediately saw a positive result.
Now, the virus has moved into her chest and she has begun to cough. “I feel rotten,” she said.
Florida is seeing a COVID uptick last experienced after the winter holidays. The increase in the number of cases began immediately after the Fourth of July and has risen each week since, according to national and state data tracking services. Although reported testing levels are relatively low, the positivity rate has jumped to 17.4% from 11% a month ago, according to state health data.
The state’s COVID bump mirrors the national situation. After months of largely slowing COVID-19 trends nationwide, emergency department visits, test positivity, and wastewater levels are up. CBS News reported that weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen by more than 10% across the country, citing new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I expected this,” said Aileen Marty, an infectious diseases expert with Florida International University. “We might all be done with the coronavirus but the virus is not done with us. It’s still circulating and some of the variants are very contagious.”
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/07/28/thought-it-was-gone-covid-is-on-the-rise-again-in-florida/?itm_source=parsely-api
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I saw lots of media about spring breakers in Florida, who mostly are not FROM Florida.
I also read posts from several here who wrote that they "had been good all this time" but were now taking a break in another state, despite the warning not to do so still. These people were not from Florida.
Floridians didn't do anything different from people all over this country.
Florida is not even one of the states with the lowest Covid vaccination rate. 
That’s the spirit! 
of September for my Nephew's wedding in St Pete.
I've been thinking about wearing a mask on the pane and being prepared to get shit from brainwashed magats.
Aloha flamingdem
I think it's a good idea wear your mask! Gainesville might be less Magat than other spots. Nature is pretty spiffy in FL. So many beautiful birds and springs. If you get to the East side I recommend Wakodahatchee Wetlands. There are probably nature reserves where you'll be.
The south is always there, but Florida and Texas are really winning the DU hate race recently.
Somehow racist attacks, shootings, Karen activity, police misbehavior, etc., get MUCH more attention if they happen in certain states.
Oddly, they happen in all 50, but eyes are turned away if it's not a favorite hated state. 
Response to Skittles (Reply #9)
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/and when you look at the states with the highest deaths...the majority are red states. Too bad nobody warned them constantly since 2020...
Nothing new to see here. Will they change their behavior now? Turn a health issue into a political one and this is what the results are. 
Highest number of deaths/1 million population, 4,625.
Given the number of extreme maggots here, no surprise. I remember the scarcity of mask wearing at the height of the pandemic, as well as the widespread flouting of mask requirements that local businesses refused to enforce. No evil gubmint was gonna force those goobers to stay alive!
There are a significant number of people living with long COVID. I have a mild version, but I am one of them.
I was vaccinated (max number allowed) 2-3 weeks before I acquired COVID. COVID itself was nothing. Then long COVID hit. Pancreatitis (requiring several days' hospitalization), some sort of gall bladder crud that doesn't have an accurate diagnosis when tied to COVID, three immune deficiencies (which have now resulted in 2 severe respiratory infections in a little over a month - despite masking), and persistent GI disruption going on a year now. I'm lucky - my symptoms are manageable.
A minimum of 10% of people who have COVID end up with long COVID - and some studies indicate as many as 50%. At one year post-COVID, in a comprehensive study of people at no particular risk for COVID, 59% had organ damage.
And, most damning, while children are acquiring long COVID at a somewhat lower rate than adults, the symptoms are serious - and may end up living with it for a substantial period of their lives - if not the rest of their lives.
The NIH advises that, “The incidence of post-COVID symptoms in children appears to increase with age. The most common symptoms reported include persistent fatigue, headache, shortness of breath, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal symptoms, and an altered sense of smell.”
The NIH also states that, “Cardiopulmonary injury, neurocognitive impairment, and new-onset diabetes may occur.”
https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/ni-updated-guidelines-on-long-covid-in-children/
We are only just now beginning to estimate the economic toll of long COVID - and the estimates are staggering.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10159592/
It is not simply the massive, unvaccinated hoard getting it at the same time which made it a terror. It is the unpredictable, multi-organ, continuing nature of the disease. Pretending that surviving the acute phase is all that matters is putting our heads in the sand to a massive - and largely preventable - burden on society.
...from my doctor. The medical profession is still learning all the things that can go wrong after being infected with Covid. I was relatively lucky to not have too many aftereffects, but a few people close to me did. The main thing I noticed was that I couldn't take a really deep breath for about three months--and this is with the supposedly toned-down Omicron variant that was dominant a year ago. I still have a minor cough that won't go away. My doctor checked it out and said that it's basically par for the course; I'll need to wait a year to see if it finally clears up. Fortunately, I've never smoked, so at least they know my lungs are okay.
I hope you get the medical attention you need and deserve! 
Response to Kablooie (Reply #19)
and all the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers oozed down into Florida.
It's a rather drastic way for Florida to reduce its Electoral Vote count. But it's going to be entertaining...
