Florida's continued COVID-19 Crisis
I dream of a day when I get to bring people good news instead of doom and gloom. As a climate scientist and COVID-19 data expert, that day has yet to come for me and I've had the harrowing burden over my career of being a proverbial 'data dark cloud.' But I have faith this pandemic will end eventually and our country will heal and I can bring news of progress and good health to people.
Today is not that day.
The CDC released its weekly summary report for each state earlier this afternoon, showing Florida last or next to last in every single indicator, including new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Florida has fallen back into high transmission rates again, with cases increasing 58% over the previous week, hospitalizations up 54% and deaths up 60%.
The state did not submit data to the CDC as other states did from July 24-27, but rather provided data today that showed an increase of nearly 40,000 cases over the missing days, without including antigen testing data.
