Florida reports 3,838 coronavirus cases and more than 200 deaths, pushing toll past 9,700

[TomCADem]

Source: Miami Herald

Florida’s Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed 3,838 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 579,932. There were also 219 Florida resident deaths announced, bringing the resident death toll to 9,758.

There were no new non-resident deaths announced, leaving the non-resident toll at 135.


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If retests are included — people who have tested positive once and are being tested for a second time — the positive rate for Sunday’s testing was 11.10% of the total, according to the report.

In total, 5,757,074 tests have been conducted. To date, 4,285,720 people have been tested in Florida. Of the total tested, 567,690 (13.25%) have tested positive. The state says there are 3,814 tests with pending results.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article245040305.html

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While Florida seems to be celebrating the recent drop in positive cases, it appears that the total number of tests taken dramatically dropped in the last few days:



So, perhaps DeSantis is taking Trump's idea to heart. If you test less, you have fewer cases.

[Roland99]

1. FYI, must pay attention to page 2 of that report. There are flaws in the state's math

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(BTW, they've modified page 1 since then to split resident and non-residents from the new persons tested section...those two need to be added together for the total tests)

[Roland99]

2. Our % Positive is still WAY too high. Has been above 15% for new persons tested since late June

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

3. +1