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As Florida hits 10,000 cases a day, experts seek more COVID data from state
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/07/23/as-covid-cases-climb-experts-question-floridas-pandemic-data/
Coronavirus cases have tripled in the past two weeks in Florida and theres no sign the resurgent pandemic will slow down.
There were 73,119 new infections reported between July 16 and Thursday, according to the latest seven-day report released by the state on Friday. Thats an average of more than 10,000 infections per day, a number not seen since early February.
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Hospitalizations have also doubled in the past two weeks to nearly 800 confirmed admission every day, on average. Deaths have followed, increasing by 64 percent over the same time span, but still remain far below levels seen at the peak of the pandemic.
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At the same time, weekly vaccination rates continue to drop as new patients become harder and harder to reach. The number of first-time vaccine recipients fell to just over 100,000, the lowest since June.
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(and now Florida and DeSantis want to hide the data)
The Florida Department of Health also stopped sharing key demographic data points with the public, such as hospitalizations, infections in nursing homes, and county level infections and vaccinations by race, age and gender. At that time, health officials said this change reflected a new phase of the pandemic as cases fell.