Miami-Dade reaches 20,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as Florida's total hits 67,371

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Source: Miami Herald

Florida’s Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed 1,371 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 67,371 confirmed cases. There were also 36 new deaths announced, raising the statewide toll to 2,801.

Miami-Dade County, which reopened its beaches Wednesday morning for the first time since the pandemic began, also announced its 20,000th known case of COVID-19.

Miami-Dade County reported 297 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 10 new deaths. The county now has a total of 20,277 confirmed cases and 784 deaths, the highest in the state.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243420731.html

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1. Gonna be hard to disguise all of these deaths.

Republicans owned phase 1, but phase 2 is going to be the anchor on their necks...

[soryang]

2. i think the death numbers are unusually low given the rise in cases

Since Rebekah Jones was fired the decline in the daily number of deaths doesn't seem credible, given the high numbers in the daily number of covid cases that persist and have even been increasing lately.

https://geojones.org/2020/05/22/public-statement/

Testing still appears to be rationed as well in Florida. When I look at the numbers overall, my impression is that state health authorities and federal health officials working in Florida have done virtually nothing to contain this pandemic.