Arizona, Texas and Florida are all reporting record-high single-day increases in COVID-19 cases, surpassing previous records set just a few days ago. The three states all reported their highest new case numbers yet on Thursday and Friday, worrying public health experts that the outbreaks there are growing out of control. “These are on the cusp of getting out of control," former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Thursday on CNBC. "I think these states still have a week or two to take actions to try to get these under control," he said, describing the rising cases as "outbreaks." Arizona reported 3,246 new COVID-19 cases Friday morning, surpassing the record-high of 2,519 new cases reported the day before. Texas reported 3,516 new COVID cases Thursday evening, an increase from the previous record-high of 3,129, which was reported Wednesday. In Florida, 3,822 new cases were reported Friday, the highest single-day increase for the state, beating a record set Thursday of 3,207 new cases. Governors in those states have largely attributed increases in cases to increases in testing, but public health experts note that the percentage of tests coming back positive is also increasing, a sign of a growing outbreak. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) acknowledged the increased positivity rate Friday in a news conference, attributing it to "discrete outbreaks." "As you test more, you find more," he said. "That's something basically we've believed from the beginning," but he added that the positivity rate is increasing more among young people. Apple closes stores in states with spikes in coronavirus cases Florida sets new coronavirus daily record with more than 3,000 cases "I think that we've started to see some erosion in social distancing from probably some of the younger population," he said. Hospitalizations are also increasing in both Arizona and Texas, another sign of an outbreak. Florida doesn't release information on daily hospitalizations.
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See there’s the catch. Everyone tomorrow in Tulsa will be there in protest. Protest of stupid liberalism. And we all know that if you’re protesting, Covid isn’t transmitted.
I find this very interesting...cases are definitely going up but look how the death count is in free fall which is consistent with what DeSantis is saying. Of course most commenting on COVID-19 have no interest in looking at the data objectively...it's completely political for them.
Yet the death data is deliberately delayed more than 14 days in the state portal --- so the DeSantis administration is merely projecting the image that deaths are declining in their state portal. The Florida detailed daily reports show many more deaths but these are not reflected in the portal until at least two weeks later. This allows the governor to claim every week that deaths are declining in Florida -- but they are not -- they are flat. Shortly to be rising.
You said essentially this on May 26th. Here we are 3 weeks later and you're still telling us to "wait two weeks".