Florida back over 5k new coronavirus cases with infections among younger age groups

[TomCADem]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Florida’s resident death toll from coronavirus rose to 32,820 with the addition of 41 more reported fatalities on Tuesday while also adding 5,302 more positive COVID-19 cases to bring the total to 2,016,513.

Tuesday’s report showed infections topping 5,000 again after two days falling below. The state has not reported more than 10,000 cases, though, since Feb. 5.

Infections had been in decline since mid-February, and still do among older Floridians. A slight rise in positive cases among the 25-34 and 35-44 age groups has seen cases level out in the last two weeks and even increase slightly week over week. The average daily reported infections for the last seven days has been 4,584 while compared to a daily average of 4,527 for the previous week.

With a population of about 21.5 million, about one in 11 people in the state have now been infected. That number is also about in 11 nationally and one in 63 worldwide.

Read more: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-tuesday-march-23-20210323-uahcjhtkmnhplg4kr4lenzhrfi-story.html

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While DeSantis is happy to simply manage an infection rate of about 5 percent positivity, the problem is that while Republicans are happy to tolerate a relatively high infection rate so long as there is not a crushing spike, this means that Florida becomes an exporter of COVID throughout the Nation and this increases the risk of more variants.

[babylonsister]

1. Stand by. Give it about 3 weeks and I suspect there will be a lot more cases. nt

[Grokenstein]

13. But then when it dips again ever so slightly

the usual idiots will scream once again that it's time to "open everything up."

[sheshe2]

2. Here we go, Spring Break.

Spike, Exporting the virus to the rest of the states.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. A year ago last month, I spent 10 days in FL to see the Red Sox in spring training.

Not this year and not while the current governor is running the show. I'll bet tourism will be way down for the Sunshine State while the official policy appears to be to support the covid infection rates.

[nitpicker]

6. It's better to look at weekly totals

Because many test sites, just like many coroners, don't report results on the weekends.

These are the early morning reports from Fridays (initially reported mid-morning Thursdays):

12 Feb 1806805
19 Feb 1849744
26 Feb 1892301
05 Mar 1930232
12 Mar 1962651
19 Mar 1994117

The last three numbers suggest that FL WAS plateauing at about 32K cases a week, BUT given spring breaking there may be "crushing spikes" in the future, not only in FL but elsewhere.

[sarcasmo]

7. Spring Break 2021, WOOHOOOOOOOOO!

[progree]

8. 11th highest daily new cases per capita, 6th highest test positivity rate, both 7dma

7dma = 7 day moving average

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1301312

Florida: 21.0 daily new cases per 100k, 7dma (40th best, 11th worst -- 10 are worse, 39 are better)

Florida: 6.9% positivity rate, 7dma (45th best, 6th worst -- 44 are better, 5 are worse)
. . . . Positivity rate graph, 7dma (FL in an uptrend) https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida


NYTimes shows the daily new case decline leveling off, even a tiny uptick (1.0% increase) from between March 20 to March 22 in the trailing 7 day moving average on those dates:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/florida-coronavirus-cases.html

Edited to add:
26th highest testing rate, 7dma (so about median), 349 tests per 100K
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview

[bringthePaine]

9. that's it done then: "GovernorSuperSpreader" from here on...

[monkeyman1]

10. ron the con following don the con ! what a pair $

[ancianita]

11. Exactly. You nailed it. DeSenseless' Florida has the highest percentage of UK variant at about 30%.

So now, for the MONEY of stupid kids, he couldn't care less if they spread the variant to the rest of the country.
So what if vaccinated people can maybe beat that particular variant -- it's the profit thought that counts!

[monkeyman1]

14. you got it too -- follow the buck's - ron is going down like the titanic .

[not fooled]

12. Drive up the numbers to try to hurt Joe

These ghouls have no shame.

[lark]

15. Case rates will skyrocket within the next few weeks, I fear, due to extreme idiocy.

Repugs are profiteering from death and disease and don't give a fuck about life or health for anyone except themselves & their families.