About 17 days ago, Florida's daily new cases per 100,000 (7 day moving average) was 22, the same as the U.S. is now.
We've all seen the daily (at least) LBN tick-tock on Florida's Covid cases, as if it is some uniquely horrible state. Well the U.S. overall average now is about where Florida was 17 days ago, and both have their daily cases growing by about the same rate: Florida: +153% and U.S. +151% over the past 14 days (the average of the 7 days ending July 29 compared to the average of the 7 days ending July 15).
A 153% increase is a 2.53 fold increase; a 151% increase is a 2.51 fold increase.
Anyway, wasn't the idea of the original eviction moratoriums that we didn't want to have people scurrying around looking for housing or homeless in the middle of a pandemic? Is not where Florida is now (66 daily new cases per 100,000, and growing at a rate of 6.85%/day which is a doubling time of 10 1/2 days) a full-scale pandemic? At the current U.S. new Covid growth rate, won't the U.S. average be there in about 17 days?
U.S.: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Florida: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-cases.html
Florida is about 4 days away from it's all time peak daily new cases 7 day moving average set on January 8 (but since they report cases only weekly, their 7 day averages progress in stair-step fashion).
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The top 15 states per 100,000 population in daily new cases (7 day moving averages):
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2778047
Louisiana is #1 in this metric, by the way, Florida is #2. And Louisiana's cases are growing much faster.